The Department of Infrastructure Development of the Kryvyi Rih City Council has signed contracts twice with a single company for the maintenance of the city's cemeteries, totaling over 38 million hryvnias, reports "Vidomo" citing "First Kryvyi Rih".
According to the information, in December 2023, the Department of Infrastructure Development of the executive committee announced open tenders for cemetery maintenance services in the city. The estimated cost of the procurement was 38,568,688 hryvnias.
At that time, the only participant in the tender and the winner was the firm Time Crystal, with a final bid of 38,483,368.68 hryvnias.
For this amount, funded by taxpayers, the contractor is required to care for mass graves as well as for the individual graves of those who died in the ATO and JFO: removing trash, leaves, grass, and snow; maintaining the cemetery's vegetation (removing overgrowth, trimming trees), mowing the grass, cleaning lawns and the area, and treating pathways with anti-icing agents in winter.
Additionally, it is noted that the contractor must dispose of and bury waste at the city's solid waste landfills. The contractor is also required to install an additional 50 waste containers with a capacity of no less than 0.75 cubic meters.
The final deadline for the contractor to complete the work is December 31, 2024.
However, as the publication points out, in January and July 2024, the Department of Infrastructure Development of the Kryvyi Rih City Council and Time Crystal entered into supplementary agreements and reduced the cost of work to 37,959,830.04 hryvnias. But already on October 2, the Department announced open tenders for cemetery maintenance services with an estimated cost of 2.5 million hryvnias.
In the new tender, once again, only LLC "Time Crystal" responded with a bid of 2,394,534 hryvnias, which became the winning proposal.
This time, the LLC must complete by December 31: the cutting up of fallen trees (in emergency situations, adverse weather conditions, etc.); transporting waste; mechanically loading waste and manually loading waste onto transport vehicles (with forks, shovels).
According to data from open registries, LLC "Time Crystal" was registered in October 2023 in Kryvyi Rih. Since its inception, the company has only secured two contracts, as mentioned above.
The founder and owner of LLC "Time Crystal" is Oleksandr Levchenko, who registered the companies "Park Avenue KR" and "Parity Construction KR" last year. As our colleagues note, these enterprises are also winning million-hryvnia tenders in Kryvyi Rih.
LLC "Time Crystal" will be responsible for the maintenance of 37 cemeteries in Kryvyi Rih across seven districts of the city, funded by the budget.
Previously, we reported that in Dnipro, they plan to spend over 12 million hryvnias on cemetery improvement.