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In the spring 2024 the Avtostrada group won two nearly identical tenders for three-year road maintenance.
In the Zhytomyr region there were three participants; the price fell by 45% to 596 million UAH. Pothole repair there cost 432 UAH per sq. m.
On 9 May 2024 the Cabinet dismissed Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. Already on 14 May the Vinnytsia Road Restoration Service announced three tenders for road maintenance. Condition: the participant’s annual revenue not less than 99% of the three-year procurement cost.
In Zhytomyr the threshold was 30%. In response to market questions the service replied that the law allows up to 100%.
Only Avtostrada submitted bids for all three lots. Discount — 3%. On 14 June, already after the resignation statements by Mustafa Nayyem and his deputies, 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 just this item, according to Our Money, is 487 million UAH over 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,” and the Vinnytsia price is market-based. In reality about 1 billion 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 DS Rubel unit conducted searches at Avtomagistral-Pivden, Shkil’s main competitor. The investigation suspects the company “set contract prices at its discretion.” We did not find any public investigative actions regarding Avtostrada’s Vinnytsia contracts.
Mykolaiv water pipeline. In the fall of 2024 it was split without a tender among three companies: Avtostrada, Ukrtransmist and Rostdorstroy, totaling 7,44 billion UAH. On 7 April 2025 all three contracts were terminated, with payments of 130 thousand UAH each.
On 10 April the Dnipropetrovsk service, without competition, awarded 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, while Avtostrada’s section rose in price by 21%, from 2,28 to 2,76 billion UAH.
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