The budget of the KRTI this year is 38.3 billion rubles. against 24.9 billion rubles. a year earlier. The increase is due to the transfer of powers for the design, construction and reconstruction of the metro to the committee from the transport committee, explained the press service of the KRTI. Governor Georgy Poltavchenko signed the corresponding resolution in October last year. The volume of the Road Construction program has not changed, notes a committee representative. According to the targeted investment program ( AIP) for the Road Facilities industry, the KRTI budget is 11.8 billion rubles, and as of December 1, 47.2% had been fulfilled. Last year, only 40.6% was completed a month before the end of the year.

Problems in the committee, including with the expenditure of funds, had to be resolved by Dmitry Burenin , the former head of the financial control committee. Burenin headed the KRTI at the end of December 2012, and in January invited top managers of road construction and design companies to a meeting, where he spoke about the new rules under which the committee and its subordinate organizations would work with contractors.

According to the new rules

The Directorate of Transport Construction ( DTS), which acts as the customer for most road competitions, transferred part of its functions to contractors - in particular, on property issues, Burenin was indignant. This, according to him, led to the fact that the commissioned facilities were not put into operation; accordingly, budget funds cannot be allocated for their maintenance and repair; the volume of such contracts at the beginning of January was 50 billion rubles. By mid-summer, all customer functions will be performed by the committee and its subordinate institutions, Burenin promised. As of December 1, 2012, the volume of facilities not put into operation amounted to 60.3 billion rubles. and decreased by 11.7 billion rubles over the year, says a committee representative. In all new contracts, property issues are left to the customer, he adds.

Burenin promised to make the conduct of competitive procedures more transparent: change the point system and criteria for evaluating applications, introduce public signing of large government contracts. However, only four contracts with a total value of approximately 12 billion rubles were signed publicly. The scoring system has been changed to increase the importance of price in the bid evaluation structure.

In the Law “ On Placement of Orders,” the significance of the participant’s qualifications when evaluating a competitive application is low, this makes it possible for fly-by-night companies to receive government contracts, says company , general director of the Pilon Mevludi Bliadze . Starting next year, the rules for placing government orders will be adjusted. The new law, according to Bliadze, indirectly establishes more stringent qualification requirements. Currently, the participant’s qualifications account for 20% of the application evaluation structure in the KRTI.

Burenin eliminated the practice of making changes to projects after their approval by Glavgosexpertiza. According to him, this was often used in the DTS. Now any change to the project requires passing a new examination. Sometimes the scope of work and methods of their implementation during major repairs or reconstruction cannot be foreseen at the design stage, and it is impossible to close the object for inspection, in which case the ability to make changes to the project without a re-examination is needed, but no more than 10% of the work and without increasing the cost, says Bliadze. ... Read more →

In March, KRTI extended the validity of the bank guarantee by 60 days; previously it terminated on the day the contract expired. In recent years, the deadlines for fulfilling government contracts have been repeatedly missed, Burenin explained in a letter to the President of the Association of Banks of the North-West, Vladimir Dzhikovich. In case of violation of the deadlines or requirements of the tender documentation, KRTI, according to him, intended to foreclose on the bank guarantee. The KRTI press service claims that there have been no cases of collection of bank guarantees this year.

In January, Burenin asked road construction companies to send their proposals on how, in their opinion, competitive procedures should take place. Large companies responded to this invitation. Work on improving competitive procedures continues; the committee constantly holds meetings with contractors for this purpose, says a committee representative. The dialogue must continue; new tasks constantly arise in road construction, and their prompt solution depends on the interaction between the customer and the contractor, says Bliadze.

Chairman of the Finance Committee Eduard Batanov several times during the year named KRTI among those lagging behind in budget execution; the governor promised to take action against the heads of committees who spend funds poorly.

In mid-November Burenin resigned. Burenin canceled some of the contracts, began to demand that builders first agree on everything according to the law, and then build, this led to difficulties in relations with business and with Smolny officials, commented the resignation of the deputy chairman of the commission on municipal services, urban planning and land issues of the legislative assembly, Boris Vishnevsky.

In the structure of road construction, where already established relationships and rules apply, it is difficult to change anything in a few months, says a top manager of one of the road construction companies. According to him, Burenin could not find a common language with the builders due to lack of experience and professional education. He was able to control, but not build, notes Vedomosti ’s interlocutor.

WHSD won't help

WHSD) this year Many St. Petersburg contractors have completed work on the Western High-Speed Diameter ( . Such large-scale construction is not expected in the coming years.

Traffic on the northern section of the WHSD was opened in August this year, the southern section was put into operation last year. The cost of construction of two sections amounted to approximately 100 billion rubles, the project was financed from the investment fund of the Russian Federation and the budget of St. Petersburg. The construction of the central section of the road is estimated at 123 billion rubles. It will be partially financed by the federal budget and the consortium Northern Capital Highway ( MSS), which includes VTB Capital, Gazprombank and the general construction contractor, the Italian-Turkish company ICA-Astaldi. 60 billion rubles. loan funds will be provided by a consortium of banks, which, in addition to the founders of the MSS, includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank .

The general contractors for the construction of the southern and northern sections of the WHSD - Pylon , Mostootryad No. 19 and the General Construction Corporation - are not involved in the construction of the central section. Mostootryad No. 19 has repeatedly sent proposals to the general contractor for the construction of the central section to carry out a range of works at the site, including the construction of bridges and overpasses, but such requests remain unanswered, the company’s general director Sergei Barchevsky said through the press service. ICA-Astaldi did not respond to Vedomosti ’s request.

According to the general director of the construction association ROSSO Dormost , Kirill Ivanov, almost all major St. Petersburg contractors approached ICA-Astaldi, but they were offered unfavorable conditions. The general contractor prefers to invite companies to do a limited number of works, thus saving on the cost of the contract, he believes. Large companies are accustomed to taking an object or site and building it turnkey, which is how construction was carried out on the southern and northern sections, says Ivanov. The practice of ICA-Astaldi could lead to a decrease in the quality of work on the WHSD, he fears.

In addition to the customer service of MCC and Rostechnadzor, the quality of ICA-Astaldi’s work is monitored by experts from a specialized international supervisory company that provides round-the-clock construction control; work with inadequate quality simply will not be accepted and will not be paid for, the head of the infrastructure financing department at VTB Capital said through the press service » Oleg Pankratov. According to Pankratov, the general contract includes obligations related to the elimination of deficiencies, withholding amounts until the work is completed, as well as penalties for failure to put the facility into operation on time.

Contractors change

The volume of orders in the city has sharply decreased, contractors are forced to obtain the necessary volumes of work in other regions, says Bliadze. His words are confirmed by Ivanov: “ The decrease in the number of orders is already affecting the St. Petersburg market.”

Of the large St. Petersburg road construction companies, the volume of orders that has decreased most in the last two years has been ZAO PA Vozrozhdenie . According to SPARK -Interfax, in 2010 and 2011. Vozrozhdenie concluded government contracts worth 4.3 billion and 2.9 billion rubles. respectively. In 2006, 2007 and 2009 the volume of annual contracts exceeded 10 billion rubles. From 2006 to 2010, the company won every competition in which it took part; in 2011, it received seven out of eight contracts for which it applied. In 2012, the company was not allowed to participate in major competitions held by DTS, and the volume of concluded contracts amounted to 163 million rubles. This year the company concluded only one contract for 19.4 million rubles, as indicated in SPARK -Interfax.

In 2009, Vozrozhdenie received a large contract for the design and construction of 12 facilities in Turkmenistan with a total value of $670 million. Mostotrest is already implementing several projects in the Leningrad region, and is also building a section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg road for 152 billion rubles. In 2005 and 2010 the company participated in the construction of the ring road, and in 2011-2013. won four competitions with a total value of approximately 17 billion rubles. for the reconstruction of the M11 highway ( St. Petersburg - Tallinn), which was carried out by the PKU Sevzapupravtodor, subordinate to Rosavtodor . Representatives of Vozrozhdenie and Mostostroy -6 did not respond to requests from Vedomosti.

New companies are taking the place of departing companies, adds Ivanov. At the end of last year, there was a competition for the construction of the Sinop tunnel for 1.5 billion rubles. won The Moscow NPO Cosmos this year a contract for the overhaul of the street. Savushkin for 1.3 billion rubles. , unknown on the market, received LLC Sintez .

This year the city announced only two road tenders with a price of more than 1 billion rubles. In addition to the overhaul of the street. Savushkina is the construction of an interchange at the intersection of Pulkovskoye Highway and Danube Avenue for 11.8 billion rubles. Almost all the major road construction companies in the city are going to apply for it; the Moscow OJSC Mostotrest of Arkady and Boris Rotenberg may compete with them . . competition One of the contractors knows about Mostotrest’s plans to participate in the Mostotrest is considering various projects, but the final decision can be made only after analyzing the project documentation, the company said. The results of the competition are scheduled for December 19.

By the end of the year, KRTI plans to announce tenders for the 2nd stage of the interchange at the intersection of Obukhovskaya Oborona Avenue and the Obvodny Canal embankment, for the reconstruction of Zelenogorskoye Highway and for the construction of Finlyandskaya Street in Kolpino, a committee representative said.

Money doesn't lie on the road