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🔍🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 Shkily tariffs. Pothole: 432 hryvnias — in Zhytomyr, 1184 — in Vinnytsia
In the spring 2024 the Avtostrada group won two almost identical tenders for three-year road maintenance.
There were three participants in Zhytomyr region, the price fell by 45% to 596 million UAH. Pothole repair there cost 432 UAH per sq. m.
On 9 May 2024 the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. Already on 14 May the Vinnytsia Restoration Service announced three tenders for road maintenance. Condition: the participant's annual revenue not less than 99% of the three-year procurement value.
In Zhytomyr the threshold was 30%. In response to market questions the service said the law allows up to 100%.
Only Avtostrada came for all three lots. Discount — 3%. On 14 June, already after the statements by Mustafa Nayyem and his deputies about resignation, contracts were signed for 10,55 billion UAH. The same pothole here costs 1184 UAH per meter, 2,7 times more expensive.
The potential overpayment for this line item alone, according to Nashi Hroshi's estimate, is 487 million UAH for three years. This is a calculation for the full volume, not established damages.
Shkil called the publication manipulation. According to him, in Zhytomyr the company was "deliberately operating at a loss," while the Vinnytsia price is market-based. In reality about 1 billion UAH will be spent over three years. But if so, it is unclear why there is a contract for 10,5 billion and a revenue threshold of 3–4 billion for each lot.
On 4 October 2024 the Main Investigation Department of the National Police together with the SSR Rubel conducted searches at Avtomagistral-Pivden, Shkil's main competitor. The investigation suspects that the company "set the contract price at its own discretion." We did not find public investigative actions regarding Avtostrada's Vinnytsia contracts.
Mykolaiv water pipeline. In the fall of 2024 it was split without tender among three: Avtostrada, Ukrtransmist and Rostdorstroy, totaling 7,44 billion UAH. On 7 April 2025 all three contracts were terminated, paying out 130 thousand UAH each.
On 10 April the Dnipropetrovsk service, without competition, handed all three sections to Avtostrada for 6,23 billion UAH. The next day — an advance of 2,5 billion. The pipeline's capacity was cut by a quarter, and Avtostrada's section rose in price by 21%, from 2,28 to 2,76 billion UAH.
To be continued..
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