Who will supply food to the MIA employees? - According to information published on the website of the Procurement Agency, only one offer was submitted in the tender, in which proposals were accepted from December 7-10, from Hospital Catering System LLC.
The acquisition is currently in the selection/evaluation stage. The company Hospitals Catering Systems was founded in 2016. According to the December 2024 extract, the company's director is Valerian Putkaradze. The shares are distributed as follows: 50% Natia Tavadze, 30% Shalva Nozadze, 20% Zaza Sinauridze.
The company's director, Valerian Putkaradze, donated 40,000 GEL to the Georgian Dream in August 2024.
As stated in the tender documentation, within the framework of the procurement of catering services for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs participating in public security and law and order activities, from January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, within 12 hours of the purchaser's request, the supplier must be able to produce at least 5,000 sets at a time, based on the purchaser's request. The set contains a sandwich, a chocolate product and a carbonated non-alcoholic drink. The set comes in 2 types, 8.85 GEL and 11.95 GEL. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has indicated the estimated price list value as 20.80 GEL, while the company is offering it for 19.75 GEL.
The contractual value of the procurement object is 300,000 GEL.
