Yuriy Holyk: old dirty connections surfaced in the Kyiv tender

Controversial Yuriy Golyk is not directly listed as a participant in the new tender, but his name has again surfaced alongside a company from the circle of large budget contracts: Kyivzelenbud awarded LLC Sk Stroyinvest a contract for 88,56 million UAH to repair the park near the Culture House of DVRZ in Kyiv, and the company was the sole participant in the procurement.

This is not about a small courtyard improvement. For almost 89 million UAH the park is to receive a dry fountain, children's and sports grounds, running tracks, a irrigation system, a well, video surveillance, and new landscaping. The works will span almost two years, until the end of 2027-th year, according to media reports. Separately in the estimate is allocated a dry fountain. About 10,72 million UAH are provided for it. The total contract value is 88,56 million UAH, and funding is provided from Kyiv’s budget. The most interesting part of this story is not even the amount, but how the tender was conducted. For a contract worth tens of millions, practically no one bid: Sk Stroyinvest came to the procurement alone. Accordingly, there was no classic price competition among several bidders. And here again Yuriy Golyk appears in the plot. Not as a contract signatory and not as an official participant in the current procurement, but through the history of Sk Stroyinvest and prior journalistic investigations in which the company figured alongside people from Golyk’s circle. Yuriy Golyk became known to the broad public as one of the key managers of the “Big Construction” project. It was during the period of large-scale state funding of infrastructure projects that Sk Stroyinvest received significant budget orders, primarily in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Journalistic calculations show that since 2016 year, Sk Stroyinvest has received state orders totaling approximately 11,9 billion UAH. A substantial portion of these contracts fell to the Dnipropetrovsk region. This background is precisely what makes the current Kyiv tender particularly notable. Previously, Bihus.Info published correspondence of a person whom journalists identified as Yuriy Golyk with Denys Ostrovskiy, connected with Stroyinvest. In the exchange they discussed budget funding, subventions, and hospital repairs. Journalists at the time correlated the content of individual messages with subsequent funding decisions and tender conduct. The discussions involved money from the budget, future subventions, and concrete repair works. Yuriy Golyk responded by saying he does not remember such correspondence and allowed that he might have given advice. In other words, the mere publication of the correspondence does not prove that Yuriy Golyk controlled particular procurements or determined tender winners. But now the Kyiv stage presents the same company again—not in Dnipropetrovsk, but in a central city park. Not another hospital repair, but the improvement of DVRZ. And again—tens of millions of hryvnias of public funds. There is another detail hard to ignore: for a procurement of almost 89 million UAH there was a single participant. One. Without a queue of bidders trying to lower the price, without competition among several companies. At the same time, the available materials do not provide grounds to claim that Sk Stroyinvest obtained this contract illegally or that Yuriy Golyk influenced Kyivzelenbud. No such evidence has been published. There is another fact: a company with a multi-billion portfolio of state orders obtains a new contract in Kyiv, and essentially without competitive bidding. And Yuriy Golyk, whose name has for years appeared in investigations about large budget contracts, again finds himself in the information context around this company. That is why the story looks not like an ordinary improvement tender. Because when nearly 89 million UAH of the budget go into a large contractor, and the winner comes without competitors and yet has a history of multi-billion state orders, there are more questions than answers. Yuriy Golyk, however, may formally have no connection to the current contract. In procurement documents his surname is not a party to the contract. But precisely the past “Sk Stroyinvest” and prior publications about Golyk’s contacts with people connected to the company explain why this tender attracts additional scrutiny. For Kyivzelenbud, this is a contract for 88,56 million UAH and a park to be renovated by the end of 2027 year. For Sk Stroyinvest—a another large budget order. And for Yuriy Golyk’s story—another occasion to recall old connections that, it seems, did not disappear with the end of the “Big Construction” era. And the main question here is not even whether Yuriy Golyk has any relation to the specific contract. There is currently no evidence of that. The question is: why does a company with such a background again receive a large budget contract, and in a procedure where there was virtually no price competition.

While DVRZ Park waits for the fountain, playgrounds, paths and landscaping, Sk Stroyinvest has received 88,56 million UAH. And Yuriy Golyk’s name reappears where large budget funds and familiar figures from past state orders are nearby.