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The Education Department of the Dnipro District State Administration 15 October commissioned Smart Universal Group LLC to build a school shelter (adjustment) on Myru Avenue, 11 in Kyiv for 129,51 million UAH.
This is reported in ProZorro.
Smart Universal Group began building the shelter back in 2024. In 31 August of this year the contract was terminated; by that time the contractor had been paid 160,38 million UAH. Now the project has been adjusted, and an additional 129,51 million UAH is needed to complete the work. Thus, the total cost of the shelter per 741 person will be about 289,89 million UAH.
The radiation-protective shelter for School No.146 is to be completed by the end of 2027. The work is planned in two phases: first they will finish construction of the structure and connect it to the existing engineering networks, and then they will restore the landscaping and equip sports grounds.
The work is financed from the Kyiv city budget. This year 33,28 million UAH is allocated, and in 2027 the amount is 96,23 million UAH.
The project was commissioned by Arkon Engineering Company LLC. A positive expert report was issued by the State Scientific Research and Design and Survey Institute “NDIproektrekonstruktsiya,” headed by Matfey Kizimenko. The contract is dynamic and includes 2,31 million UAH for risks and 4,94 million UAH for inflation (here and below amounts and prices are stated with VAT). In the tender documentation the procuring entity set the same amount for risk coverage for all participants – 2,31 million UAH. The current version of clause 5.31 of the Guidelines for Determining Construction Costs allows this. At the same time, the procedure for using these funds must be specified in the procurement contract draft.
In the final resource statement, metal-plastic doors were accounted for at 19 500 UAH/sq. m. Epicenter offers WDS metal-plastic doors at 6 943 UAH/sq. m. Market Dveri sells Rehau Euro 60 doors at 8 581 UAH/sq. m, which is twice as cheap.
The blast-protection device UZS-25 was ordered at 142 250 UAH/pc. By phone a manager at Uni Metal confirmed they sell such a device at 83 773 UAH/pc, which is 41% cheaper.
An unspecified emergency firefighting water tank with a volume of 3 cu. m was priced at 234 190 UAH/pc. Roto Europplast sells firefighting tanks made of food-grade plastic at 26 000 – 33 300 UAH/pc. Komandor2000.ua offers horizontal and vertical plastic water tanks at 20 616 – 34 932 UAH/pc. That is 7-10 times cheaper.
The primer Ceresit CT 14 Tiefgrund was ordered at 1 112 UAH/l. Kub base sells it at 778 UAH/l, and Budplatforma at 807 UAH/l. That is 27-30% cheaper.
Delivery of crushed stone 20-40 mm over a distance of 30 km is 30 UAH/cu.m km, and crushed stone fraction 40-70 mm is 28 UAH/cu. m km. Monitoring by the State Enterprise “NIRI” in Kyiv region records an average haulage rate by dump truck up to 30 km at 8 UAH/tkm. With a bulk density of crushed stone 1,41-1,47 tons per cubic meter, this is 11-12 UAH for transporting one cubic meter of crushed stone per kilometer, which is almost three times cheaper.
Polyurethane binder Tetrapur 144 was entered into the estimate at 422 UAH/kg. Masterfiber sells it at 230 UAH/kg, and TNP Group Ukraine at 297 UAH/kg, which is 1,5-2 times cheaper.
The estimated overpayment for just these items may exceed 4 million UAH.
The blood pressure monitor Bokang BK2001-3001 was priced at 6 472 UAH/pc. On Tabletky.ua it is sold for 520 – 664 UAH/pc, and Medtekhnika Life at 590 UAH/pc, which is ten times cheaper.
In addition, the estimate included a Fire-Set 2AGE 0.50T DPC fire-fighting pump station priced at 943 800 UAH/pc. It was not possible to verify the price justification from open internet sources.
The calculated wage for one worker at the average work grade 3,8 is 37 002 UAH. The average salary for construction vacancies on the Work.ua portal in Kyiv is 50 000 UAH.
The firm won the contract without competition because no one else submitted bids to the open tender.
To participate in the tender, bidders had to provide letters confirming willingness to work without an advance and agree to defer payments for the duration of martial law and for six months after its termination or cancellation.
A guarantee letter was also required: if during an audit the controlling authorities find inflated costs of work or materials, the contractor must, within three working days, prepare documents to reduce the cost and return the overpaid funds to the procuring entity.
A similar contract was considered to be construction of a dual-purpose structure with protective properties of a radiation-protective shelter of consequences class not lower than in the procurement. At the same time, the value of work performed under such a contract had to be no less than the expected value of the current tender. The participant’s annual revenue for 2025 year also had to be at least 100% of the expected procurement value.
The Education Department of the Dnipro District State Administration is headed by Nataliya Ivanina, who became known after the scandal over the purchase of drums and vegetable slicers for shelters. The head of the Dnipro District State Administration is Andriy Paladiy.
Smart Universal Group from Irpin is owned by local resident Tetyana Hryshchenko, and managed by Olena Harkusha. According to YouControl, until 2022 Anton Myronchuk from Irpin was also a co-founder. At least until 2012 the firm was located in Bucha, and its owners were Andriy Dulyanytskyi, Svitlana Kovalenko, Vitaliy Panashchenko and Yuriy Stolyarchuk.
Hryshchenko is a sole proprietor whose main activity is “Provision of passenger car rental and leasing.” She owns a number of firms together with Anton Myronchuk.
According to KyivVlada, Anton Myronchuk in 2015 ran unsuccessfully for the Irpin city council from the New Faces party. The party’s leader is former Irpin mayor Volodymyr Karpliuk.
Since 2023 Smart Universal Group has received government contracts exclusively in Kyiv region totaling 1,62 billion UAH, mostly from the current procuring entity.
Hanna Kyslyakova, Our Money
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