The Management company for the Construction of New Tashkent under the Cabinet of Ministers and the Gold Step Invest company entered into a direct agreement for the construction of a transport interchange at the intersection of New Uzbekistan street and the 4R12 highway. This follows from data from the government procurement portal.
We are talking about the construction of 6 km of highway, 3 underground passages and 1 bridge. The project is preliminary estimated at 350 billion soums (about 28.4 million US dollars). The parties signed a contract for this amount on December 6, and the document itself was posted on the portal on December 27. The final cost will be determined based on the work completed.
When signing the agreement, the parties were guided by the presidential decree of July 20, 2023 and the protocol of the coordination council for the construction of New Tashkent (which is headed by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov) dated December 4. It is worth noting that the council has been given the authority to attract design and contracting organizations and other specialists by concluding direct contracts.
The customer transfers to the general contractor an advance of 15% of the project cost - 52.5 billion soums.
The preliminary completion deadline, including the demolition of existing buildings and structures (if necessary), is December 31, 2023, although the payment schedule for the amount is planned until the end of December 2025 (12.4 billion soums per month).
On December 14, the Management company also entered into a direct agreement with Architects Engineers Planners Advisors for the provision of project management services for the construction of a highway interchange. The cost of services is 5.5 billion soums.
The company is required to organize a system for monitoring the execution of the construction project, exercise financial control, prepare the final budget and work schedule, procurement documentation, manage contracts, and more.
Possible link between the chief of the Management company and the general contractor
The Director of the Management company for the Construction of New Tashkent is the Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Davronjon Adilov. Previously, he served as deputy director of Gold Step Invest.
Gold Step Invest was registered in September 2013. According to the data on the company’s website, it was set up in Tashkent in 2003 for the design and construction of social, cultural and cultural facilities, medical institutions, residential complexes, sports and industrial facilities.
The owners of the company were Marat Abdulaev and entrepreneur Davronzhon Adilov (now deputy head of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services and head of the management company).
The company operated in the market under the name Nomdor Dizayn Servis in 2003–2008, Global Stroy Invest in 2008–2013, and Gold Step Invest since 2013. The company's portfolio includes such projects as the construction of a new Tashkent hippodrome, reconstruction of the Republican College of Olympic Reserve, turnkey construction of the Humson Buloq country health center, Shedevr, New Century, Megapolis housing complexes, healthcare facilities - a perinatal center at 300 beds in Bukhara, the Republican Center of Pediatrics, the Children's Department of the Republican Oncology, as well as industrial facilities - the Arktika Bottlers plant, Marvin Brands (Dena plant) and others.
In 2020, the sole owner of the company was Farrukh Tadzhibaev.
According to the Unified State Register of Industrial Organizations, the owners of Gold Step Invest are now Khairulla Ismatov and Kabildzhan Adilov. The last name and surname coincide with the name of the deputy minister and head of the management company Davronzhon Adilov.
The Anti-Corruption Agency told the editors that they had begun studying this fact.
