In the new estimate for the completion of the Podilsky-Voskresen Bridge in Kiev, sold by Maxim Shkil, Natural Sand, the natural sand is laid at an abnormally high price-541 UAH per cubic meter with VAT. In addition, another 347 UAH is provided for delivery, which in total gives more than 888 UAH/m³. The total amount of sand costs in the project is over UAH 37 million.
At first glance, everything is "according to documents". As an explanation of the inflated price, the contractor is based on the base of the recovery agency prices. However, this base is formed from four positions, only one of which is from the real manufacturer, the rest is the records from intermediaries related to the contractors or their environment.
The lowest market price-170 UAH/m³-was offered by LLC "Mining Company-SBK", owner of the Ozer career. This is the manufacturer. Instead, much higher numbers were included in the base:
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450 UAH - from Kyivshlyakhbud, affiliated with Rostodorstroy,
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570 UAH - from LLC "Harvest of Ukraine", which is associated with the family of businessman Yuri Schumacher (the owner of "Rostdorstro"),
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750 UAH - the price from the "DS prom group", which is substantiated by a certificate from a little -known company from Brovary for supply ... only 20 cubic meters.
All three expensive positions look artificially inflated, created for a formal "medium market", which in practice has nothing to do with the real market.
Such "average" price - 485 UAH/m³ - allows the contractor to include a much higher cost of sand in the estimate, even when the real purchase can be several times cheaper. It is a standard scheme of overestimation of cost through manipulation with registers that are not regulated by the market, but the controlled circles of selected players.
In fact, budget funds are mastered through allegedly transparent tools, but are based on affiliate "contractors under contractors", which set a profitable background for overestimation.
As a result, the bridge that the people of Kiev have been waiting for decades again becomes the object for earnings - not in difficult works, but on ordinary sand.
