On November 8, Kyivzelenstroy awarded a tender to Eurotechnologies Group for the renovation of the park.
On November 8, Kyivzelenstroy awarded Eurotechnologies Group a 30 million UAH tender for the park's renovation. This was reported in the "Prozorro", they write Our money.
The project concerns renovations to a park on the Dnieper embankment near Berkivshchyna Bay in the Darnytskyi district, which are expected to be completed by the end of December.
In 2020-2021, the company won two tenders for the improvement of this park, totaling 45 million hryvnias. Then, the KyivVlast publication drew attention It's worth noting that in 2020, an information board was installed there, listing the company as the general contractor even before winning the tender. At the end of 2021, another UAH 8 million was delivered to the company without a bid. This summer, the Kyiv City State Administration announced that Prybrezhny Park had reopened to visitors, but that the renovations had not yet been completed due to the war. Soon after, in September, the current tender for UAH 30 million was announced.
The new agreement includes a custom-made entrance area with steles bearing the park's name for UAH 2,61 million and a 3D-printed cartoon character made of polystyrene foam and fiberglass on a metal frame for UAH 384. Three playgrounds, a rope course, a carousel area, bike racks, benches, trash cans, sun loungers, pedestrian and bike paths, a fuel and irrigation network, a gabion wall, flower beds, bollards, parking bollards, and video surveillance will also be installed.
The brands and models of many products are hidden in the final inventory list. For example, video cameras. An unknown 500x500x30 mm rubber modular playground tile costs 2901 UAH per square meter. At Epicenter, Ukrainian RUBECO 500x500x30 mm rubber playground tile costs half as much—1337 UAH per square meter.
Topsoil costs 1417 UAH, and natural sand costs 1279 UAH per cubic meter. This is in line with the market only if delivered within Kyiv by the smallest 4-cubic-meter truck. These prices are offered, for example, on the IBP website. However, the larger the truck, the lower the prices: depending on the size, topsoil costs 656-975 UAH, and sand 427-813 UAH per cubic meter.
To participate in the tender, experience specifically in municipal or state-owned green space improvement projects (creation of modern garden and park facilities) was required. In addition, a material and technical base for growing planting material or a contract with a specialized subcontractor was required. The winner provided similar contracts with Kyivzelenstroy and also reported a contract with the nursery company Eva Project (Eva LandScape company") Olesya Klyushnik.
Eurotechnologies Group
The director of Eurotechnology Group is Panteleimon Yakovets, and its founder is Roman Hovorun. The latter unsuccessfully ran for the Kyiv City Council in 2015 as a member of the Movement for Reforms party.
From 2016 to 2018, Taras Anatolyevich Boiprav was a co-founder of the company, and he also managed it from 2014 to 2018. Since 2018, he has served as Deputy Head of the Capital Investments Department at Kyivzelenbud. In his 2018 asset declaration, he indicated co-ownership of Eurotechnology Group; this information is no longer present in his 2019 and 2020 asset declarations. It is unknown whether Boiprav currently works at Kyivzelenbud, as the declarations are closed due to the war.
Eurotechnology Group claimed that Boyprav "quit and forgot his way." However, the company shares an address and phone number with Ukrzemtechnika, owned by Olga Govorun and Nadiya Boyprav. The latter is Taras Boyprav's mother.
Since 2017, the winner of the tender has won UAH 363 million, of which UAH 324 million went to Kyivzelenstroy.
Last year, tax authorities opened a criminal investigation into tax evasion. According to investigators, in 2019-2020, employees of Eurotechnology Group, Stroymontazhservis I, and Promstroymekhanizatsiya, acting in deliberate collusion with Kyivzelenbud officials, allegedly evaded VAT payments totaling more than UAH 30 million by concluding sham transactions and creating unjustified VAT credits with the companies.
The only competitor was Oksana Parkhomchuk's firm Bud-Komplit, headed by Serhiy Parkhomchuk, and neither bidder took part in the auction. Since 2019, the rival has won UAH 90 million in tenders exclusively for capital repairs of parks and squares for Kyivzelenbud.
In the summer, the State Bureau of Investigation gained access to Kyivzelenbud's contracts with Bud-Komplit and other companies for parks and public gardens. Investigators believe that in 2021-2022, the head of the Project Support Department of Kyivzelenbud's Capital Investments Department intentionally, in collusion with other Kyivzelenbud officials who conducted tenders, oversaw contract implementation, and accepted and paid for work, repeatedly received improper benefits. Specifically, according to the State Bureau of Investigation, he received 300 hryvnias from Bud-Komplit.
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