For almost a year and a half, the “covid” purchases under this procedure have spent about UAH 35 billion. A significant part of them went to goods and services that have nothing to do with the fight against the pandemic.
This is stated in the investigation Bihus.Info… The journalists found that some structures used the “covid” procurement procedure to buy fuel, animal feed, sports equipment (boxing helmets), New Year’s gifts or food (scroll to the bottom of the page to watch the video).
The facts of significant overpayments were also regularly recorded. So, in the same period, the same Chinese concentrators OLV-10 were bought at 30 and 60 thousand hryvnyas per unit.
In general, the State Audit Service counted violations in the “covenant” purchases for UAH 407 million. At the same time, the penalty provided for avoiding trades ranges from UAH 25.5 to 51 thousand, and it is almost impossible to prove overpayment at these auctions. Therefore, the sanctions are not comparable to the millionth turnover.
“The only requirement for“ simplified covenant procurement ”is the need to prove that the procurement is really necessary to combat the pandemic. And then buy virtually anything for any amount,” the report says.
At the same time, the list of drugs and equipment allowed by the government for procurement under the “covid” procedure had to wait for two months. This led to a loss of time to prepare for a new wave of the pandemic.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, in July, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new law about “covid” purchases.
The document allowed the procurement of medicines, vaccines or other medical immunobiological preparations, consumables for the provision of medical care to patients and medical products for vaccination against COVID-19, medical equipment for health care institutions providing assistance to patients with COVID-19, medical supply systems under a simplified procedure. gases.
On the one hand, a simplified procedure was needed to quickly provide hospitals. However, over time, when it became possible to buy transport, medical suits, protective equipment in advance, because of the old rules, it became possible to abuse and buy expensive and low-quality goods.
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