In the Odesa region, a contractor was selected in a 48-million tender with no competitors

The Infrastructure Restoration and Development Service in the Odesa region conducted a procurement process to select a contractor who will be paid to perform routine repairs on sections of the public highway of national importance between Bilyayivka and Vyhoda Station.

According to the Prozorro electronic procurement system, the project covers slightly more than 20 kilometers of the highway. 

The procurement was conducted as an open tender with specific conditions, and the sole participant was the limited liability company “Progressdorbud,” which is currently awaiting the signing of the agreement. 

The company will be required to maintain the road sections until December 31, 2027, and plans to receive 48,162,700 hryvnias for this work. 

According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in 2016. Its current owner isYuriy Chetvertakov. In November 2021,the Center for Public Investigationsfound that during the first nine months of 2021, the Road Management Department (RMD) of the Odesa City Council had made payments totaling nearly 325 million hryvnias. Among the top ten recipients of funds wasYuriyChetvertakov’s Progressdorbud LLC, which, at least at that time, was also headed by Yuriy Chetvertakov, who led the Amirkhanyan family’s Agrosintez Municipal Enterprise.Mediareports also linked “Progressdorbud” toAraikAmirkhanyan.

In 2024, the state-owned enterprise “Local Road Service” held a tender to select a company to be paid for the routine maintenance of three kilometers of a local public highway between Novopavlivka – Perekhrestove Pershe – Mala Toporivka. The auction took the form of an open tender with specific conditions, involving two limited liability companies: “Progressdorbud” and “Construction Firm ‘Pritetbudinvest’.” “Progressdorbud” LLC was selected as the winner, having offered to perform the repairs for 48.1 million hryvnias—50,000 hryvnias less than its competitor.

Кирило Бойко