The KP "Centralized Procurement Organization of the Odessa Regional Council" concluded a contract with the Kyiv company "Unimed Group" for the supply of a set of medical furniture for the Regional Center for Social and Psychological Assistance - the total budget cost is about UAH 5.2 million. Some items in this contract cost significantly more than market analogues.
The most indicative is considered to be the item with 57 bedside tables of the SERA-10 model - the price per unit is indicated at 42.57 thousand UAH (excluding VAT - 39.59 thousand UAH). For comparison, on the Ukrainian market there are German-made models for approximately 21.9 thousand UAH, on British portals - up to 15.5 thousand UAH, and some foreign suppliers offer models at export prices much cheaper. According to the authors of the publication, the overpayment for this item alone is about 1 million UAH.
Other items of the contract also raise questions. The AD 213-P medical cabinet for instruments is estimated at 120.96 thousand UAH per piece (two were purchased for the center), while similar cabinets are available on the market at much lower prices - journalists call the overpricing more than twice. For another item - the AD-206/P cabinet (7 units at 98.28 thousand UAH) - complete analogues on foreign portals cost up to $500. And finally, the AD-261/H doctor's chairs were purchased at 46.44 thousand UAH per piece, while similar models on the market are sold for thousands (not tens of thousands) of hryvnias.
The overpayment for this tender amounted to at least UAH 2 million. As noted in the publication, the company "Unimed Group" also carried out the delivery and customs clearance of the equipment.
According to open data, the founders of Unimed Group are residents of Kyiv and Kyiv region Mykola Bezzubenko and Mykola Shchyruk. In 2019, the Nashi Groshi project published an investigation into the business of Bezzubenko and Shchyruk, in which Bezzubenko was called the former head of the economic counterintelligence department of the SBU and linked to a network of pharmaceutical suppliers. After 2022, according to publications, the group of companies expanded its activities and began supplying medical equipment to hospitals.
