The Active Citizens Club* team, which we recently opened in Kherson, analyzed the state of public procurement in Kherson and the region for the third quarter of 2024.
The analysis indicates that the transparency of tender procedures in Kherson and the region currently leaves much to be desired. Even though successful tenders for significant amounts were held, the negative dynamics with tenders that did not occur due to the absence of participants, winners with corruption experience, and open legal proceedings may indicate insufficient efficiency and competitiveness of the procurement process.
This is a negative trend for the region, which should already be moving from humanitarian support to the recovery process (in communities further from the line of contaсt). According to Prozorro, in the third quarter of 2024, 593 tenders with an open procurement procedure were announced in the Kherson region. At the same time, 189 tenders did not occur due to participants' absence. Among the organizers were 96 institutions of the Kherson region. The total amount of purchases that did not take place was UAH 143,532,314.81. Two purchases were also canceled for a total amount of UAH 416,562.00.
We also found out:
- How many tenders were held/not held in the Kherson region, and for what amounts?
- The geography of public procurement in Ukraine.
- TOP-10 areas in which public procurement is carried out in the Kherson region.
- How unblemished is the reputation of the tender winners and collected links to journalistic investigations about them?
A little spoiler: the most scandalous tender winners are from the Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kyiv regions. We found almost 300 negative publications about them in the media, and they have participated in more than 100 court cases.
You can download the full version of the monitoring at the link.
Thanks to YouControl for the opportunity to learn more!
*The Active Citizens Club was launched on September 10, 2024, within the framework of the project "Kherson: on the Way to Recovery" conducted by the "Union" Foundation as part of its project implemented under the USAID/ENGAGE activity, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact. The content of the study is the sole responsibility of Pact and its implementing partners and do not necessary reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.