Sienkevych: The City Council will soon approach the World Bank to restart procurement for the restoration of buildings in Mykolaiv
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- Yuliia Boichenko
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19:11, 17 April, 2026
Mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevych, photo by NikVestiMykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych has announced that the city council plans to approach the World Bank in the near future to restart the procurement process for selecting contractors to develop projects for the reconstruction of destroyed residential buildings in Mykolaiv. The city intends to propose easing the conditions for participation in the procurement process.
The mayor spoke about this in a comment to a reporter from NikVesti.
«We will make the request; nothing is stopping us. It is important for us to actually carry out this project, not just announce that we have joined it. I think that in the near future we will approach the World Bank and submit all the necessary changes, which we will adopt at a council meeting. We will do everything that depends on us in the near future,» said Oleksandr Sienkevych.
To restart the project, the procurement plan needs to be re-approved — local authorities are currently working on it with representatives of the Central Project Management Group at the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development, according to the Department of Housing and Communal Services.
«At the same time, an updated version of the expressions of interest has already been agreed upon — this is essentially a procurement notice. Thus, as soon as the updated annual plan is approved, we will restart. Everything is already in place for this,» they explained there.
Earlier, the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine explained to NikVesti that they had decided to restart the procurement process for finding contractors to develop projects for the reconstruction of destroyed residential buildings in Mykolaiv due to the requirements for tender participants. The possibility of easing the conditions for participation in the procurement is currently being considered, but for this to happen, the city council must submit a corresponding proposal to the World Bank.
HOPE: Housing Reconstruction in Mykolaiv
In 2025, it was announced that Mykolaiv would receive 150 million hryvnias from the World Bank to develop design and cost estimates for the restoration of apartment blocks as part of the «HOPE: Housing Repair for Empowerment of People» project. The design work will be carried out not on a building-by-building basis, but in clusters. Each of the 21 clusters comprises between 2 and 5 multi-storey buildings that have been damaged.
Initially, the plan was to develop reconstruction designs for 54 buildings, but this number is now being increased to 69.
NikVesti asked the city authorities whether they would manage to rebuild the residential buildings according to the developed plans before the projects’ validity period expires. They replied that they were not sure whether they would manage to rebuild all the buildings by 2027. However, Mykolaiv’s mayor, Oleksandr Sienkevych, expects that once the project documentation for the restoration of the high-rise buildings has been drawn up, the World Bank will also finance their reconstruction.
Read also the article by NikVesti «Reconstruction or just paperwork: how Mykolaiv will spend the World Bank’s 150 million hryvnias»
It later emerged that this list included at least four buildings for which design and cost estimate documentation had already been drawn up — this is discussed in the NikVesti article «Projects for the reconstruction of four buildings in Mykolaiv will be commissioned twice: Why this happened and how the authorities will avoid duplication».
The Department of Housing and Communal Services explained that the projects already developed by the city include stabilisation measures, whereas the HOPE project focuses on energy efficiency and urban regeneration. «In any case, our projects are more limited in scope than those to be developed under HOPE,» they added.
As of November 2027, tenders were ongoing to select contractors for the major refurbishment of the apartment blocks included in the HOPE project. Work on the refurbishment of 54 high-rise buildings under the HOPE project is scheduled to begin by November 2027.
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