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20
October
2022

AMCU fines two companies for bid rigging for building Podilsky bridge in Kyiv

KYIV. Oct 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Northern Interregional Territorial Branch of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has fined Forma LLC and IBK Ukrbud LLC for bid rigging to purchase design works for the construction of Podilsky bridge in Kyiv.

According to the press service of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, it was established that the companies coordinated their actions: they used common IP addresses for managing accounts and for tax reporting, they acted simultaneously when receiving bank guarantees, etc.

Based on this, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized the two companies as violators of the legislation on economic competition protection and imposed fines. In addition, the violators are banned from participation in the auction for a period of three years.

According to Opendatabot, the owner of IBK Ukrbud LLC is Maksym Fomichov. The owner of Kyiv-based Forma LLC is Oleksandr Stepenko.

Both companies participated in the tender of the Directorate for the Construction of Road Transport Facilities of Kyiv in the ProZorro system for the purchase of design work for the construction of Podilsky bridge in 2018. The winner of the auction was IBK "Ukrbud with an offer of UAH 11 million.