Ukraine’s recovery is not a single fund, portal or type of contract. A company may encounter at least three different environments: Ukrainian public procurement, the digital portfolio of recovery projects, and procurement financed by international financial institutions. Each environment has its own rules, documents and channels of appeal.
1. Prozorro — national public procurement
The portal allows procurements, plans and contracts to be searched by keyword, CPV code, contracting authority, region and expected value. A bid is submitted through an authorised electronic marketplace, not directly on the portal’s information page. A foreign company needs to check in advance the conditions for registration, electronic signature, translation of documents, bank guarantees and the tax model.
2. DREAM — the project portfolio and life cycle
DREAM makes it possible to see recovery projects and the related data. The presence of a project in the system does not mean that a tender has already been announced or that financing is guaranteed. The system should be used for early monitoring, after which the source of financing, the state of preparation and the procurement channel must be verified.
3. International financial institutions
The World Bank, the EBRD, the EIB, the Council of Europe Development Bank and other institutions finance projects under their own procedures or under agreed rules. The EBRD states that most of the opportunities of its clients are published on ECEPP; to take part, a supplier, contractor or consultant has to register on the portal. The procedure of the specific tender takes precedence over any general description.
Before taking part
- Determine whether the company is applying on its own, through a Ukrainian legal entity, a distributor, a consortium or a subcontract.
- Match experience, turnover, staff, certificates and completed contracts against the qualification criteria.
- Carry out sanctions, beneficial-ownership and anti-corruption checks on every participant in the chain.
- Calculate taxes, customs clearance, currency payments, guarantees, insurance and war risks.
- Do not invest funds in preparing a bid until the official contracting authority, the source of financing, the procedure and the deadline have been established.
Where to look
- Prozorro — procurement search
- Prozorro — five steps for a supplier
- DREAM — Digital Restoration Ecosystem
- EBRD — project procurement
- EBRD Client E-Procurement Portal
- World Bank — procurement notices
- World Bank — business outreach on Ukraine procurement
The role of UKCC
The Chamber can help a company to build an opportunity profile, to find the relevant channel, to prepare a list of questions for the contracting authority or the partner, and to carry out an initial matching.
UKCC does not guarantee admission to a procurement, a win, financing or the reliability of a counterparty.
Describe your task in two lines.
Name the product, the sector and the market that interests you. Describe your request in a short email to the UKCC corporate address — the site has no online enquiry form.
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