The Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services posted the results of the tender for reconstruction of the Press House complex (Newspaper Corps) in the Tashkent’s Mirabad district.
Reportedly, it is planned to create a modern media town at the complex and its adjacent territories.
Four companies had sent bids with a starting price of 103.49 billion soums, including three from the Fergana province:
It is noteworthy that three companies from the Fergana province offered the same price - 98.315 billion soums.
Yangi Zamon Bino was declared winner on 98.86 billion soums offer, which was submitted on the day of deadline. It received 60.13 points from the tender commission. Baraka Fayz Invest (58.3 points) was chosen as the reserve winner.
According to the USRPO, Yangi Zamon Bino was registered in November 2016. The authorized capital is 566.18 billion soums. The owners are Unique Trade Business (50%) and Uzbekistan Railways (50%). The owners of Unique Trade Business, in turn, are Golden House Development (99%) and Jahongir Polatov (1%), who owns shares in the BeFit premium sports complexes, the Oriental Paper & Board company, which supplies paper products to Uzbekistan, and others.
The company's website states that since 2016, it has built over 600 buildings and infrastructure facilities, including schools, hospitals, roads, industrial facilities, residential complexes and more. The company employs more than 4,000 people. Projects include the presidential school in Navoi, the Kibray Children's Rehabilitation Center - a training center of the Ministry of Defense, the Orient Business Center and residential complexes.
The Newspaper Corpus was put up for auction in the spring of 2018. Then the starting price of the facility was 18.7 billion soums. The lot was later removed from the auction.
In August 2021, the building at the intersection of Bukhara and Nuroniylar streets (18.1 thousand sq. m.) was included in the list of 12 state-owned assets that were put up for public auction as part of privatization. The object was removed from sale and kept by the media outlets, including print publications. Later the building was handed over to the balance of UzA.