Defence Procurement Agency, the state-owned enterprise of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, has suspended MGC RAIL LLC from taking part in the tender for fuel supplies for non-existent reasons. Moreover, the company was falsely accused on more than one occasion, according to the statement made by the Commercial Director of MGC RAIL LLC Tetiana Smolanova while making her comments as for spreading the information about the enterprise containing unreliable or false data (Censor.NET online media).
'We legitimately won the tender for the supply of jet engine fuel. Later, the tender organizers appeared to have some "questions" about the set of documents we had submitted. Defence Procurement Agency began to refer to some non-existent reasons in order to suspend us. In particular, for the absence of a warranty certificate indicating the fuel storage terms. However, as for the documents filed for participation in the procurement, MGC RAIL LLC has fulfilled this condition, as one may check by referring to the tender-related open access data available on Prozorro website,' said the Commercial Director of the company.
According to her, apart from that, MGC RAIL LLC provided all official documents and permits to fulfill the conditions of participation in the tender, including a certificate issued by the State Tax Service on the absence of arrears in the payment of taxes and fees.
'Fulfilling government orders last year, MGC RAIL LLC was delivering high-quality products on time, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract concluded with the Defence Ministry. This is confirmed by customs declarations, quality certificates and test reports,' stressed Tetiana Smolanova.
She says that if the delivery dates had happened to change, it was the customer's initiative. 'We had incurred losses as an importer and supplier, as we had to pay for prolonged downtime of road and rail transport carrying a large volume of explosive products throughout Ukraine. However, even under such conditions, we had managed to keep our price unchanged.'
Three fuel suppliers participated in this tender, such as MGC RAIL LLC, PJSC Ukrnafta, and OKKO Postach LLC. After MGK RAIL LLC has been suspended from bidding, PJSC Ukrnafta is likely to become the winner, under the order of priority of price offers.
MGC RAIL LLC has previously fulfilled similar supply contracts for the Ministry of Defence (aviation fuel delivery), the State Border Service (winter diesel fuel delivery), JSC Ukrainian Railways (winter diesel fuel delivery) and for more than 50 private companies, consumers of petroleum products.