Nearly 800 entrepreneurs are currently on the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine’s blacklist due to bid-rigging, according to the Consolidated Report on the Distortion of Tender Results. This represents 30% of the total number of businesses on this list. Overall, the largest number of such entrepreneurs are in the Lviv region. Nearly one in three sole proprietors on the AMCU’s blacklist operates in the wholesale trade sector.
As of the end of June 2026, there were 797 sole proprietors on the AMCU’s blacklist. This accounts for 30% of the total number of sole proprietorships and companies on this list.
Entrepreneurs are placed on the blacklist if the AMCU finds them guilty of collusion while participating in public procurement. This refers to situations where several tender participants merely create the appearance of competition, but in reality agree in advance on who will win. As a result, the state may end up overpaying for goods, works, or services, while other participants lose the chance to win the tender fairly.
Being included on this list has consequences: for three years following the AMCU’s decision, such entrepreneurs may be barred from participating in public procurement. That is why contracting authorities regularly check this list before determining the tender winner.
You can check whether a business is on the AMCU’s blacklist using OpenDataBot.
The number of businesses in violation is growing year after year. While 242 decisions regarding such businesses were issued in 2024, that number rose to 306 in 2025. This is the highest figure in the last 10 years. Another 186 entrepreneurs, whom the Committee found to have engaged in anti-competitive concerted actions, were added to the list this year.
The largest number of sole proprietors on the blacklist are registered in Lviv Oblast—95 entrepreneurs, or nearly 12% of the total. Next are Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (81 sole proprietors), Kyiv (78), Vinnytsia Oblast (52), and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (39).
Nearly one in three of these entrepreneurs works in wholesale trade—there are 231 such sole proprietors. Another 139 entrepreneurs are engaged in retail trade. The violators also include representatives of the food service industry (47), specialized construction work (33), and general construction (32).
https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/amku-black-list-2026
ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE, blacklist
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