Department of Science and Education of Kyiv Regional State Administration (KOSA) intends to buy 43 school buses for the expected amount of 127.84 million UAH until October 31, 2023.
According to the announced June 28 bidding on the procedure of request for bid prices, such proposals will be accepted until July 3.
Technical specifications specify, in particular, that the buses must be made not earlier than 2022, have 26 seats for pupils and two – for accompanying persons and crew members, comply with Euro 5.
As it was reported, the Cabinet of Ministers by its Resolution of 28 April 2023 approved the procedure and terms of granting subventions from the state budget to local budgets (this year’s subvention is 1 billion UAH) for the purchase of school buses.
Procurement is carried out using the electronic catalog (ProZorro Market) by the procedure of request for bid, allowing the customer to select the best price offer in four days and lower than in open bidding.
School buses are purchased on condition of co-financing from the state budget (at least 70%) and local budgets.
Subventions to the budget of Kyiv oblast makes up 87.95 million UAH.
As previously reported, a number of regions have already conducted or are conducting such purchases. In particular, the best offer in the similar procedure announced on June 23 for the purchase of 28 school buses of Odessa Regional State Administration was the offer of the Trading House “Etalon Auto” with buses of Chernihiv Automobile Plant for 82.46 million UAH. The second proposal was made by Dnipropetrovsk Avto JSC (UkrAvto corporation) with ZAZ buses for UAH 82.6 million (the expected purchase price).