Austria's Klenkhart&Partners Consulting to draw up feasibility study for Olympic Hope 2022

Kyiv, September 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Austria's Klenkhart&Partners Consulting has won a tender worth EUR 425,000 to draw up a feasibility study for the Olympic Hope 2022 National Project.

"Thanks to a transparent procedure we've got the lowest price by several times. Out of EUR 1.47 million of the expected cost, the result of the tender came to EUR 425,000, which is 3.5 times less than the expected cost," Chairman of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects Management Vladyslav Kaskiv said at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

Kaskiv said that the term for drawing up the feasibility study for the Olympic Hope 2022 is 55 days.

"The project is developing, and the government has an idea to transform the National Project into the operations of a separate state agency for preparation for Winter Olympic under management of Vice Premier Borys Kolesnikov," he said.

The open tender to buy the feasibility study was announced on August 3, 2011 by state-run enterprise Olympic Hope 2022 and on September 14, the bid envelopes were opened. Brittan's AECOM Limited also took part in the tender. Another two companies – Austria's Masterconsept and France's ABESR did not submit documents in line with Ukrainian law, the agency chairman said.

He said that the price proposed by Klenkhart&Partners Consulting was the lowest price, while the maximum price at the tender was EUR 612,200 with an execution term of 120 days.

Klenkhart&Partners Consulting was founded in 1991.

The company has realized around 900 projects linked to mountain skiing in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.

Klenkhart&Partners Consulting was a general designer of slopes and artificial snow systems for the Alpine Ski World Cup of FIS (the International Skiing Federation) in Germany in 2011.