The Accounts Chamber outlined the problems of the protracted construction of the FMBA medical center in Yalta

The construction of the multi-profile center was announced by the authorities in April 2021, estimating the total investment at 15 billion rubles. The amount was allocated from the federal budget in May of the same year. In November 2023, a new tender was announced for construction and installation work in the center in the amount of 11.978 billion rubles. Taking into account this purchase, the cost of the project exceeded 16.622 billion rubles. In May 2024, another similar tender was announced with an initial maximum contract price of 483.4 million rubles. Thus, the total cost of building the center approached 17.5 billion rubles. Now the cost of construction has increased to 31.8 billion rubles. According to auditors, this is due to the indexation of the cost of the facility for the entire construction period - until 2030.

In August 2022, the Russian Government designated RT-SotsStroy LLC, part of the Rostec state corporation, as the sole provider of services for the construction of the medical center for 2022-2023. At the same time, the company signed a contract with FMBA for construction and installation work at the site in the amount of 4.6 billion rubles, the expiration date of which was set for December 31, 2023. The company had to fulfill at least 25% of the volume of obligations under the contract, and contractors were allowed to be involved to fulfill the rest. As a result, due to the company's improper fulfillment of its obligations, the contract was terminated unilaterally by decision of the customer - the Technical Customer Service of the FMBA of Russia. The AC believes that the LLC "did not have the labor and material and technical resources to implement the functions assigned to it as the sole contractor in the construction of the facility." Based on the results of competitive procedures, since January 2024, the new general contractor is Tyazhpromexport JSC.

The commissioning and commissioning of the facility was initially planned for 2024. As a result, the construction deadline for the medical center was repeatedly postponed. At the moment, the deadline is set for 2030. As was determined during the audit of the SP, one of the main reasons for the increase in construction deadlines is the failure of JSC Tyazhpromexport to comply with the daily average number of workers established in the design documentation (397 people). In fact, no more than 60 people worked at the facility (15.1% of the plan).

In addition, during on-site inspections by Rostekhnadzor, violations were found in terms of non-compliance with the requirements of design documentation (work deadlines were violated, there is no executive documentation for certain types of work, there are no electrical supply diagrams for the facility, electrical equipment was not tested and measured, distances from wires to trees and bushes were not observed, a work execution project was not developed in full) and the requirements of the regulation on conducting construction supervision during construction (subsequent work was carried out without inspection of hidden work).

The SP inspection also revealed a number of violations in terms of the legislation on the contract system committed by the construction customer, and non-compliance with the procedure for calculating the initial (maximum) contract price.

The SP reported the results of the inspection to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and also sent representations to the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, the Technical Customer Service and JSC Tyazhpromexport with demands to take measures to eliminate the identified violations and deficiencies. The Russian Government was recommended to establish requirements for participants in urban development procurement, providing for the availability of qualified specialists and the necessary equipment to fulfill the contract. In addition, information letters were recommended to be sent to the Ministry of Construction, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Federation Council and the State Duma.

The 14-story medical center in Yalta will include a hospital with a capacity of 419 beds, an adult outpatient clinic designed for 500 people, and a children's outpatient clinic for 300 people. In addition, the center's territory should house a 17-story residential building for medical personnel, containing 300 apartments. The facility is designed to provide both emergency and planned care, including high-tech care for adults and children in a wide range of areas (surgery, cardiology, neurology, and others).