Olimpstroy President Viktor Kolodyazhny has failed so far to transfer a portion of his duties to private business.
Photo: Dmitry Lekay
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Outsourcing Won’t Help Olimpstroy
On the eve of September visit of the International Olympic Committee to Sochi, State Corporation Olimpstroy loses the principal contractor dealing with engineering and elaborating the methods to estimate costs and draw up expert conclusions of Olympic construction. Stroirezerv that won in June the tender for a portion of Olimpstroy functions pulls out of the project.
It emerged that Stroirezerv addressed Olimpstroy August 5, requesting to amend the terms of the contract of June 30. The letter that was sent on behalf of Stroirezerv acting CEO Alexander Maigur to Olimpstroy First Vice President Valery Gurin quotes a portion of the contract, which Stroirezerv is unable to execute.
Engineering contractor Stroirezerv won the tender June 3. Under the RF laws it is next to impossible to amend the contract if the general contractor is represented by a state corporation. In certain cases, this move calls for the government’s endorsement, while the material changes require holding another tender.
Stroirezerv is an engineering group, which biggest projects were the contracts clinched with Transneft (in time of Semen Vainshtok) and TNK-BP. The majority owner is an offshore company. As to the individual holders, Cheslav Larin holds a sizeable stake in Stroirezerv, while Alexander Larin, 26, is its general director.
Under the contract of Olimpstroy and Stroirezerv, the latter undertakes to provide not only engineering services but also to assume some organization and supervising functions of Olimpstroy, ranging from development of regulative and technical documents for Olympic facilities, informational support of Olimpstroy and establishment of its data system for construction projects to consulting on the expert conclusions, elaboration of documents and even participation in the choice of contractors.
The worth of cooperation was impressive. The H2 contracts of Olimpstroy and Stroirezerv are said to total 456 million ruble (roughly $20 million).
People in Stroirezerv refused to comment on the reasons of the actual withdrawal from the contract of that extent. The sources speculate that quite a number of bureacrats oppose cooperation of Stroirezerv and Olimpstroy. In Russia’s supervision authority, Rostekhnadzor, for instance, they said they were well aware of Olimpstroy’s problems and were generally surprised that the state corporation had transferred a part of its functions to a private company.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 21, 2008
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