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The Solomianskyi District Administration's Department of Social and Veterans Policy 1 in October contracted LLC “Construction Industry CountryInvestBuild” to reconstruct a non-residential building into a rehabilitation center for children and people with disabilities for 688,11 million UAH.
This is reported in ProZorro.
By October 2029 year, at Donetskyi Street, 18-V, they are to reconstruct an existing two-story building with non-residential premises and adjacent structures to create facilities fully suitable for temporary residence, rehabilitation, and career guidance for people with disabilities. Specifically, the plan includes demolishing the main part of the two-story building, constructing a new four-story building with a radiation-proof shelter in the basement for 150 people, installing a new complete transformer substation in a concrete housing, reconstructing existing premises and the underground heating unit while preserving the existing boiler room equipment, arranging an external entrance to the underground facility of the existing heating plant, demolishing the attached garage and the metal mobile-communication tower with mounts and equipment, and more.
Work is funded from the local budget. This year’s budget is 19,00 million UAH, next year 2027, year 324,00 million UAH, year 2028 – 240, 00 million UAH, and year 2029 – 105,11 million UAH. Equipment is allocated 90,39 million UAH.
Sharpened to the winner prepared in advance
In February the current contractor, “Construction Industry CountryInvestBuild,” was awarded the project for 8,94 million UAH. At that time, a potential participant noted a requirement that, along with the bid, one must provide upper-level planning solutions taking into account the design task and current legislation. The participant asked the customer whether such a condition indicated an intention to “pull through” the previous contractor, given that the customer already has a developed and approved project stage (P). They also asked why plan solutions should be included in the bid if they already exist with the customer.
The customer replied that the requirement is established in accordance with current law and is needed to verify that proposals meet the design assignment, technical specification, and legal requirements. In the customer's view, upper-level solutions can be developed by any potential participant, and the requirement itself does not violate procurement or Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 1178.
Thus, CountryInvestBuild received the design contract for the construction.
To participate in the construction tender, two completed contracts for the reconstruction of health-care facility buildings and/or social protection facility buildings under the DK code 021:2015: 45450000-6 – “Other finishing construction works” within 2024-2026 years were required.
They also required the turnover for each reporting period (2023-2025 years) to be 40% of the anticipated procurement value, i.e., 229,37 million UAH.
Additionally, the participant had to provide quality management certificates per DSTU EN ISO 9001:2018, environmental management per DSTU ISO 14001:2015, health and safety management per DSTU ISO 45001:2019, anti-corruption management per DSTU ISO 37001:2018, and energy management per DSTU ISO 50001:2020.
Ultimately, the firm “CountryInvestBuild” received the contract without competition because no one else showed up for the open tender.
Overstated costs in the estimate
A positive expert report was issued by LLC “Center for Comprehensive Expertise of Projects.” The contract price is dynamic and includes 59,67 million UAH for inflation (amounts and prices below are with VAT).
In the final resources list, concrete B12,5 was ordered at 6 360 UAH per cubic meter. The Kovalska Group and Kyiv’s Borispil Construction Materials Plant sell concrete at the same price 4 719 – 5 328 UAH per cubic meter, which is 16-26% cheaper.
Reinforcing steel of grade A500C, diameter 16 mm, was ordered at 54 120 UAH per ton. “Bulat Metal” sells it at 40 0035 UAH/ton, and “Iron World” at 48 620 UAH/ton. This is 10-26% cheaper.
Baumit Solido E225 polymer-cement screed was accounted for at 9,76 UAH/kg. “Bud-Platform” offers it at 7,35 UAH/kg, and the Kub base at 8,68 UAH/kg. This is 11-25% cheaper.
Bricks 250x120x65 mm M100 were ordered at 17,16 UAH per piece. “Orange Build” sells them at 12,85 UAH per piece, and “Epicenter” offers them at 14,45 UAH each, which is 16-25% cheaper.
Baumit StarContact adhesive-putty ordered at 44 UAH/kg. “Skidkoff” offers it at 20 UAH/kg, and “First Line” at 36 UAH/kg. This is 18-55% cheaper.
Unknown plastic windows accounted for at 12 276 UAH per sq m. “Market Windows” offers Rehau seven-chamber profile Synego with a thickness of 80 mm at 5 458 UAH/sq m, which is twice cheaper. The most expensive window proposal on the window manufacturers’ site, “Linea Windows,” is Rehau Artevo with a double-glazed unit 4-10-4-10-4 wide 80 mm at 11 718 UAH/sq m, which is 5% cheaper.
Estimated overpayment on these positions amounts to more than 3 million UAH.
Average monthly wage per worker in full-time employment and work rank 3,8 is 42 888 UAH. The average salary for construction sector job postings on Work.ua in Kyiv is higher – 50 000 UAH.
Who are these wonderful people?
The head of the Solomianskyi District Administration's Department of Social and Veterans Policy is Tetiana Shakhrai.
The head of the Solomianskyi District Administration is Serhiy Movenko. He previously served in the police, and from 2020 to 2024 was the first deputy head of Volyn Regional State Administration. In 2025 year he led the Solomianskyi District Administration.
Kyiv’s “Construction Industry CountryInvestBuild” is led by and owned by Yurii Romashko.
The company has won state contracts totaling 3,03 billion UAH, but according to Clarity-project, its greatest boom occurred in August 2023. The largest of these, 930 million UAH, the firm received without bidding in the separate unit “Atomprojectengineering” of the state-run ENERGOATOM and other ENERGOATOM subdivisions. This includes construction of protective structures at the South Ukraine, Rivne, and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants, and at the Centralized Repository for spent nuclear fuel.
As a reminder, construction of protective structures at NPPs during the invasion appeared on the so-called Mindič tapes – NABU recordings made in back-office rooms of the criminal group controlling ENERGOATOM’s procurements.
Also since May, CountryInvestBuild has been repairing the Institute of Heart for 841,09 million UAH.
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