In Vinnytsia, companies involved in criminal proceedings have been contracted to repair and build shelters. Two companies received contracts worth almost UAH 205 million from the Vinnytsia city authorities. This was reported by the local edition "20 Minutes", UNN writes.
Tenders without tenders
This year, 240 tenders have already been
year, 240 tenders for the repair and construction of shelters have already been held. The total
expected cost was 550 million hryvnias. Contracts have been signed for 397
million.
At
At the same time, it is noted that 93% of the tenders that took place were held in a
non-competitive manner. The total amount of these contracts amounted to 106 million hryvnias.
In 98% of the procurements, there was only one participant, who was then appointed
as the general contractor.
In
According to experts, this indicates non-transparency of procurement procedures and does not
does not lead to cost savings.
"The lack of
competition at the bidding may indicate non-transparency of the procurement and
and the inaccessibility of business to public procurement. By the way, auditors are now
are now monitoring procurement of shelters. The second question to procuring entities is
is why they chose this particular contractor. And often customers cannot give
answer to this question. And most importantly, the lack of competition equals
minimal or even zero budget savings," a representative of Dozorro in Vinnytsia
Dozorro representative in Vinnytsia region Yulia Hryha.
The trail of
of contractors: suspicions of embezzlement and misappropriation of property
Contracts
worth almost UAH 122 million were awarded by Vinnytsia authorities to BK STAM.
Among them are two of the most expensive objects: a shelter at lyceum No. 12 (UAH 57.2 million) and lyceum
No. 13 (UAH 49.3 million)
It is noted
that in 2020, "BC STAM" was suspected of embezzlement of budget funds during
during the reconstruction of the maternity ward of the Sharhorod Central District Hospital in 2017.
and during the overhaul of the Zeleni
Wells" hydrological reserve in 2019.
In
the second place in terms of the amount of contracts for shelters in Vinnytsia is the company "ZhK-Garant" - 82.9
million hryvnias.
As
according to 20 Minutes journalists, this company in 2021 was one of 40
of the 40 defendants in the criminal case under the article "Misappropriation of property on a particularly
large scale or by an organized group". At that time, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv
allowed the investigators to request information from ZhK-Garant about
financial and economic relations with other companies.
Also,
according to the newspaper, "ZhK-Garant" is involved in a case of embezzlement of funds
on the repair of a shelter for one of the hospitals in Vinnytsia.
"According to
to the investigation, employees of "ZhK-Garant" colluded with officials of the Department of
Capital Construction Department of the City Council to embezzle budget funds for
the overhaul of the shelter for the City Clinical Hospital No. 1. The verdict in this case
has not yet been issued," writes "20 Minutes."