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The Mykolaiv City Council, in cooperation with the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative, plans to create a reference site for price monitoring in the region. Such a project is designed to avoid overpricing during tender procurement.

The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, announced this at a press conference, NikVesti reports.

Yes, after the implementation of the project, estimates will be created on the basis of such a reference site. The price department of the Mykolaiv City Council will monitor the cost of certain materials or products.

«So that they don't monitor candles and bread, but those products or materials that are used by us in the estimates of the city council,» Oleksandr Sienkevych said.

The mayor emphasized that in 2023, cooperation with the Anti-corruption Initiative increased. Today, thanks to this, the city government is trying to build a system of rules during procurement for all city bodies that use budget funds.

We will remind you that recently the edition «Slidstvo.Info» analyzed the purchases of refrigerators for kindergartens and schools of the city by the Department of Education and announced an attempt to overestimate the cost of the equipment by almost two times.

Earlier, the publication «Nashi Hroshi» analyzed the tender for the restoration of the Mykolaiv Gymnasium No. 2 worth more than 146 million hryvnias and declared that the prices in the estimate were overstated. According to the publication, in the restoration estimate.

Also, the publication «Our Money» analyzed the purchases of the Department of Town Planning, Architecture, Capital Construction and Support of Development Projects of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration for the reconstruction of the water main in Mykolaiv with a total cost of 836 million hryvnias, and stated that the prices were inflated by 2-3 times. The head of the RMA Vitalii Kim, in turn, promised to account for every penny spent.