Our song is good and new: “Kyiv Metro” ordered the correction of the project for building the Vinogradar metro//KV collage
By the end of 2022, the Kyiv Metro ordered changes to the project for the first stage of building a section of the Syretsko-Pecherskaya metro line to the Vynohradar residential area without an auction. The construction has faced delays in the past four years, and the latest deadline for completion is the end of 2022. However, the project needs further adjustments, which will cost around UAH 70 million from the budget. The adjustments will continue until the end of 2023.
The Kyiv Metropolitan Enterprise signed an agreement with LLC KB Teploenergoavtomatika to adjust the project for the construction of a section of the Syretsko-Pecherskaya metro line to the Vinogradar residential area on December 29, 2022. The contract is worth UAH 69.43 million.
The contractor is required to correct the design documentation approved by the Kyiv City State Administration by the end of 2023, including a section of a fork branch towards the Vinogradar station.
The customer asked the contractor to make specific changes to the project documentation:
- add investment funds to sources of financing other than the city budget;
- include a clause allowing the queues and/or launch complexes defined by the project to be put into operation separately;
- include the costs of demolition, transfer of buildings, structures, green spaces, and compensation payments in the total estimated cost;
- add to the list of institutions to coordinate design decisions the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the Kyiv City State Administration and other organizations determined during the design process;
- provide on the surface at the stations entrance 2 bins each, fenced areas for placing Euro-containers for garbage, as well as special areas measuring 12m x 20m for parking official vehicles.
- replace in relation to the street's name change from Marshal Grechko Street to Ivan Vyhovsky Street.
The purchase was done through “open auctions with features”, which, as per the Cabinet of Ministers of October 12, 2022 No. 1178 on public procurement under martial law, are permitted to be done without an auction.
Remember that in October 2016, the Kyiv Metropolitan ordered the project for the construction of a section of the Syretsko-Pecherskaya metro line from Syrets station to the Vynohradar residential area from Kyivmetroproekt LLC *** (the contract price is UAH 140.58 million). The design task included construction in three stages: Stage I – the section from the “Syrets” station to the first new station, Stage II – the section from the temporary final station and the turn to the next new station (possibly 2 stations), Stage III – the section from the temporary end station of the second stage to the end station with the second electric depot. However, in February 2017, this document was modified. From that time on, construction was planned to be carried out as follows: And the turn is a section from st. “Raw” to Art. Prospekt Pravdy with two stations (Mostitskaya and Prospekt Pravdy) and a section of a fork branch towards st. “Vinogradar”), stage II – section from the border of the fork branch to the station “Ul. Marshal Grechko”, III stage – “St. Marshal Grechko, a double-track service and connecting branch line to the electric depot, a complex of facilities on the territory of the Vynohradar electric depot.
On November 20, 2018, the metropolitan subway signed a contract with Kyivmetrostroy PJSC **** worth UAH 5.98 billion for the implementation of the first stage of construction of a new metro line, according to a new design task. The contract states that the contractor must lay a line from the electric depot in the Podolsky district on the section from the Syrets station to the Prospekt Pravdy station with the construction of two stations – Mostitskaya and Prospekt Pravdy, as well as a section of a fork branch towards the Vinogradar station » «. Under this agreement, the contractor was required to complete all work by November 26, 2021. But it didn't happen.
In May 2019, the Kyiv local prosecutor's office No. 6 initiated criminal proceedings No. 42019000000002358 regarding possible fraud during the construction of a new branch of the metropolitan subway (part 4 of article 190 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor's office discovered that unidentified individuals lobbied in the Cabinet of Ministers for the possibility of increasing the prepayment for the specified work to 95% of their cost. Additionally, according to the investigation, the contractor placed part of the funds received for construction in deposit accounts for profit rather than using it for its intended purpose, and transferred the received interest to a number of companies. As of January 2020, according to investigators, only 2.5% of the required construction work was completed, after which the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv seized 2.58 billion hryvnias that were on the accounts of Kyivmetrostroy OJSC.
In August 2021, Kyivmetrostroy OJSC took legal action against the Kyiv Metropolitan KP, asking the court to approve a new deadline of May 12, 2023 for the delivery of metro facilities (case No. 910/13557/21). The plaintiff cited difficulties with getting spare parts from other countries due to quarantine restrictions, as well as bank and treasury account freezes as reasons for the delay. On September 23, 2021, the Economic Court ruled that the contractor must finish the facility by December 23, 2022. To comply with this decision, on November 24, 2021, Kyiv Metropolitan Enterprise and Kyivmetroproekt LLC signed an additional agreement extending the deadlines for the work until December 23, 2022. The legal matters regarding this issue are ongoing, as the metropolitan subway is formally attempting to challenge this decision. Despite this, the deadlines have passed, and the prospects for completing the work are very uncertain.
On January 20, 2022, the Kyiv City Council, at the request of the chairman of the Servant of the People faction, Andriy Vitrenko, considered a draft decision on the creation of a temporary control commission (TCC), which should figure out why And the metro line on Vynohradar was not launched on time. However, only 34 of the 61 required deputies voted for the relevant draft. The majority of the deputies were not satisfied that it was proposed to include disproportionately many representatives of the Servant of the People faction into the TCC.
On January 28, 2022, during a meeting in the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the Kyiv City State Administration about the construction of a new metro line in the capital, representatives of PJSC “Kyivmetrostroy” were unable to provide a detailed schedule for the completion of work. Additionally, the company did not furnish a list of subcontractors indicating the types of work done and where they were performed.
It's worth noting that despite the construction delays in the metro, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, consistently reassured the people of Kiev for a long time that two new metro stations at Vynohradar would open before the end of 2021. The mayor voiced these assurances in July 2019, January 2020, and August 2020. In June 2021, he promised to open only one metro station at Vynohradar by the year's end, mentioning that 900 out of the 1,300 meters of the subway had been laid. However, by November 2021, Vitali Klitschko acknowledged that the work would not be finished on time due to quarantine.
According to the Youcontrol analytical system, LLC KB Teploenergoavtomatika (formerly PE Teploenergoavtomatika until May 2020) was established in 1999 in Odessa. Its authorized capital is 1 million hryvnias. The main activity is other construction and installation works. The founders and ultimate beneficiaries are Tatyana Beletskaya and Oleksandr Pavlik, with Oleksandr Stetsenko serving as the director.
Based on the Clarity Project, KB Teploenergoavtomatika LLC secured 48 contracts worth UAH 926.82 million through participation in public procurement. The largest customer is the state-owned enterprise NPKG Zarya-Mashproekt, which awarded the company a contract exceeding UAH 700 million. Teploenergoavtomatika obtained 40 contracts totaling 214 million hryvnias from Kyiv Metro, including the development of a project for an additional exit from the Exhibition Center station, various station renovation projects, and the renovations themselves, including their lighting.
Agreements between KP Kyiv Metropolitan and LLC KB Teploenergoavtomatika for overhaul of lighting networks of metro stations in 2018 became the subject of criminal proceedings. The investigation found out that the Teploenergoavtomatika PE, as part of three contracts, supplied the capital’s metro with LED lamps at an inflated cost, which caused damage to the budget of Kyiv in the amount of UAH 12.69 million.
Kyiv Metro was founded by the Kyiv City Council in 1999 The authorized capital is UAH 20 billion. Since July 17, 2014, the enterprise has been headed by a deputy of the Kyiv City Council from UDAR Viktor Braginsky (on the collage to the right).
Kyivsky Metropoliten is subordinate to the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the Kyiv City State Administration, which has been headed by Ruslan Kandibor since September 1, 2021 (on the collage on the left ). The activities of this department from November 9, 2021 are personally directed by the chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Vitaliy Klitschko.
Alena Momot, translation of Skelet.Info
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* KP “Kyiv Metropolitan” (EDRPOU code: 03328913)
** LLC KB Teploenergoavtomatika (EDRPOU code: 30390020)
*** Kyivmetroproekt LLC (EDRPOU code: 36798738)
**** PJSC Kyivmetrostroy (EDRPOU code : 01387432)
