In Six Months, DOZORRO Helped the State Save Over UAH 383 Million

Since the beginning of 2026, TI Ukraine’s DOZORRO program has helped protect over UAH 383 million of Ukraine’s budget from potentially inefficient spending. In June alone, these savings reached UAH 57.6 million. This is usually the result of systematic follow-up — appeals to contracting authorities, oversight bodies, and law enforcement based on monitoring from previous months. You can read more about how DOZORRO calculates this indicator in our earlier article.

In June, most of the savings came from contract price adjustments — UAH 50.8 million. These are cases where DOZORRO experts use their calculations to convince contracting authorities to revise contract values, particularly by correcting the prices of materials we identify as inflated. This outcome is the main goal of our work. Another UAH 6.8 million came from contracts terminated after our appeals. Below are several standout wins from June.

Reconstruction of a kindergarten with a shelter in Kharkiv Region

In April, our experts identified potentially inflated material prices worth UAH 3.6 million in the reconstruction of the Teremok nursery-kindergarten with a shelter in Pisochyn. The local settlement council’s Department of Education, Culture, Youth, and Sports signed the UAH 69 million contract for these works with Zhytlobud-1 Trust PrJSC, the sole bidder in the procurement.

Some materials were included in the cost estimate at prices several times above market. For example, custom-made non-combustible aluminum composite panels were priced at UAH 6,652.24 per m², while their average market price is UAH 1,877.73–1,975.65 per m², depending on the color — over three times lower.

DOZORRO sent the contracting authority its full calculations, asking it to adjust the cost of material resources in the contract. This is easy to do — even in the work completion certificates, since the contract price is adjustable. The contracting authority replied fairly quickly that it had monitored the prices based on open sources and commercial offers, taking into account the Ukraine Facility requirements and the technical specifications of the materials, and disagreed with our calculations. It noted, however, that the final prices would be agreed with the contractor at the settlement stage and could be revised then. 

Meanwhile, at the end of May, the parties signed an additional agreement reducing the contract value by UAH 2.9 million. The prices of the composite panels were never adjusted, though, so we plan to keep monitoring this procurement. The works are scheduled for completion in late 2027.

Overhaul of a sports and fitness complex for the National Guard

Another spring case concerned the UAH 33.8 million overhaul of a sports and fitness complex for the National Guard in Kyiv Region. Following a simplified procurement, the contracting authority — the Central Production and Technological Supply Base of the National Guard of Ukraine — signed a contract with Novator Innovation and Construction Firm LLC, which offered a price UAH 176,000 below the estimated value. The winner had a competitor with a higher bid.

DOZORRO experts identified likely overpayments on certain materials in the cost estimate — in particular, potential price inflation of more than double on basalt wool of various thicknesses and composite facade sheeting. In March, we sent the contracting authority detailed calculations of the likely total overpayment of UAH 2.1 million. 

That same month, the Central Production and Technological Supply Base of the National Guard of Ukraine replied that the price analysis of material resources during the development of the cost estimate section of the design documentation had been carried out not by it but by the Sports Club of the National Guard of Ukraine, which was originally meant to be the contracting authority for these works. At the same time, it said it intended to analyze the material prices itself and adjust the contract price accordingly. 

In June, the Central Production and Technological Supply Base kept its promise and adjusted the contract value through an additional agreement in line with the average material prices in the region — reducing it by almost UAH 2.4 million.

Reconstruction of a sewage collector in Dnipropetrovsk Region

DOZORRO experts helped save money quite quickly on the reconstruction of a sewage collector in Pavlohrad — although, interestingly, in this case the contracting authority never even replied to our appeal.

In May, DOZORRO experts sent the Pavlohradvodokanal municipal enterprise calculations showing a likely overpayment of UAH 8.7 million — almost 17% of the contract value — on the reconstruction of the city’s collector. The price of sand in the cost estimate exceeded the market price more than twofold, and the same was true of crushed stone. Yet the largest potential overpayment concerned the pipes, priced roughly 20% above market. Because the works require a large quantity of these pipes, the potential overpayment on them alone could exceed UAH 4 million. The contract was signed with the sole bidder, BK-Novostroy LLC, which offered a price UAH 137.63 below the estimated value. 

Despite receiving no reply to the appeal itself, in early June the parties agreed to reduce the contract value by UAH 3.2 million through an additional agreement, in part by lowering the price of some of those very pipes. Our experts plan to keep monitoring this procurement, as the works are scheduled to run all the way to August 2028.

June monitoring

In June 2026 itself, DOZORRO experts monitored 92 procurements worth UAH 11.2 billion and found violations in 60 of them:

• in 42 procurements, they identified likely overpayments totaling UAH 208.1 million;
• in 18 procurements, they found other potential violations, including issues with document publication and discriminatory requirements. 

Based on these cases, the experts sent 57 appeals, the results of which we will be able to assess in the coming months.

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