A crew finished a capital repair of a district hospital’s roof back in spring. The budget money went out on time, but the completion certificate — the document showing what the work actually cost and who received the funds — remained accessible to only two signatories for months. From 1 September, that scenario becomes harder to pull off: construction procurement in Ukraine is getting new transparency rules, and hiding a price behind paperwork will be much more difficult.
This is about Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 957 of 15 July 2026 — a document that immediately amends two key wartime public procurement acts, Resolutions No. 1178 and No. 1275. According to analysts at Transparency International Ukraine, who were the first to break down the changes, this is not a technical clarification but a rethink of the whole approach to choosing a procurement method. For contracting authorities — regional administrations, municipal enterprises, hospitals, schools — new obligations appear. For construction companies competing daily for contracts on Prozorro, this means a new level of scrutiny over who performs the work, how, and for how much.
What exactly Resolution No. 957 changes
The document’s main changes:
- mandatory publication on Prozorro of completed construction-work certificates and cost statements — for contracts of UAH 10 million or more including VAT, covering current repairs, new construction (including design documentation), reconstruction, restoration or major repairs — within 5 working days of signing;
- the return of mandatory use of the negotiated procurement procedure and the value thresholds from the current version of the Law “On Public Procurement” No. 922-VIII;
- extended deadlines for participants to submit tender proposals;
- the mandatory use of the electronic catalogue for food procurement has been cancelled;
- the localisation provisions take effect immediately upon publication of the resolution, while the rest of the changes take effect on 1 September 2026.
Why this matters for contractors and customers
Until now, the public usually saw only the expected tender value and the winner’s name — what happened after the contract was signed, the actual sum at which the work was accepted, and whether that sum matched the tender proposal, remained hidden in the paperwork exchanged between customer and contractor. Publishing completed-work certificates openly closes that gap: comparing the declared and actual cost will now be possible for anyone — an investigative journalist, a civic activist from DOZORRO, or a competitor who fairly lost the tender and wants to make sure the winner actually performed the work for the amount claimed.
For the construction industry, this means one more step towards a market where quality and real cost win, not skill in paperwork. For companies used to competing on price and delivery time, the new rules can only help — transparency levels the playing field for all Prozorro participants, large and small.
Every such clarification of the rules is a brick in the foundation of trust in public procurement, without which large-scale reconstruction simply cannot move forward: international partners and investors increasingly make tender transparency a condition for financing the country’s recovery. Companies used to working honestly and openly — including the SpecServis team — stand only to gain from the new rules: fewer surprises for conscientious contractors, and fewer opportunities for those used to hiding the real price behind paperwork.
