In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, the regional ecology department announced a tender for the purchase of 8 indicative automated air quality monitoring stations for the amount of over 11 million hryvnias.
This tender is registered for only one equipment supplier, namely the ENVEA company, Maksym Soroka, the head of the ecomonitoring committee of the Association of Environmental Professionals PAEW, reports on Facebook.
He emphasized that the cost of each monitoring station and server equipment reaches 1.4 million hryvnias.
"The stations are equipped with electrochemical and optical sensors, they are the same EcoCity stations that are simply certified. And all the sensors in the indicator stations will need to be replaced in 2 years," Soroka wrote.
He also noted that the tender was written specifically for the ENVEA company. Thus, the description of the equipment states that the sensor can be removed from the station and function as a separate station. Such equipment is available only from such a manufacturer and, accordingly, from the only dealer in Ukraine.
Soroka emphasized that the Khmelnytskyi City Council also announced a tender for the purchase of a stationary indicative automated air monitoring station for 778,000 UAH.
As EcoPolitic reported before, residents Lutsk will be able to receive information about air quality in real time.
