The competition for the construction of a metro line to Savushkina Street did not take place

In St. Petersburg, the first competition with limited participation, announced in accordance with the new Federal Law No. 44 “On the contract system,” ended in failure. The State Order Committee of St. Petersburg declared invalid the tender for the right to prepare the territory of construction sites with the development of working documentation for the continuation of the section of the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya metro line from the Primorskaya station to the Ulitsa Savushkina station with the intermediate station Novokrestovskaya, the committee's press service reported on Friday .

Four applicants submitted applications for participation in the competition worth 188.8 million rubles: the USK Most company of Gennady Timchenko (part of the SK Most construction group, 25% of the shares of which belong to the Stroytransgaz Holding company controlled by businessman Gennady Timchenko. - Kommersant ), the monopolist of the St. Petersburg market OJSC Metrostroy, the company STiS, owned by Vodokanalstroy, as well as CJSC I.I.S., which represents the German concern Mobius in Russia. The companies offered to perform the work for 169.735 million, 169.924 million, 179.364 million and 171.64 million rubles, respectively.

As reported by the government procurement committee, none of the participating companies could confirm their qualifications. The tender was held for the first time under the new 44th law on the federal contract system (in force since January 1, 2014 - Kommersant ) in the format of a competition with limited participation, the rules of which have not yet been adopted in practice by either customers or contractors.

“Potential contractors were unable to properly confirm the availability of their own or leased equipment in the amount necessary to fulfill the contract, indicating the production capacity of this equipment,” the department said.

The Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg (KRTI), which is the customer for the work, clarified that a new competition is planned to be announced in the next two weeks. They plan to announce a competition directly for the continuation of the green line, worth about 29 billion rubles, in the summer. Construction of the Novokrestovskaya station near the new Zenit Arena stadium should be completed in 2017, and Ulitsa Savushkina - in 2018.

Metrostroy reported that after the competition is re-announced, they will take part in it again.

Olga Karpova, head of corporate practice at Rightmark group, notes that a feature of a competition with limited participation is that uniform and additional requirements are imposed on procurement participants and the winner of such a competition is determined from among those who have passed the prequalification selection.

“At the same time, additional requirements are imposed just for prequalification. The requirement to have your own or rented equipment is additional, the competition did not take place due to the fact that not a single participant passed the prequalification selection due to non-compliance with these requirements. I believe that in the future such problems can be avoided provided that potential participants carefully prepare their applications for participation in the competition,” she explains.

Meanwhile, there has been a noticeable revival in the St. Petersburg metro construction market. It is obvious that other players, in addition to the traditional monopolist, are also interested in very expensive contracts. Earlier, Kommersant was informed about the possibility of participation by JSC Moskovsky Metrostroy. At the same time, Smolny is not against new players entering the local market. At the end of last week, the office of Vice-Governor Marat Oganesyan, who is in charge of the construction unit, issued a message saying that “demonopolization of the St. Petersburg metro market will make it possible to fulfill the commitments made by the city government to build at least 12 new metro stations by 2020.”

Tatiana Dyatel

The green line has stalled