Стадионом к чемпионату мира в Ростове займется структура группы «Сумма»

Sport Engineering, which is owned by the Ministry of Sports, won the tender held by the regional government last November to design the stadium, although it requested 893 million rubles for the work – more than any of the other five contenders. Inteks, on the other hand, had requested the least amount – only 774.4 million rubles – but the federal state unitary enterprise was declared the winner.­

Alexander Vasyukov, the general director of Sport Engineering, stated yesterday that Inteks is the main subcontractor responsible for designing the stadium and that it is currently the only company in Russia with a record of success in designing and building a soccer stadium from the ground up (the Kazan Arena built for the 2013 Universiade games).­­­

Aleksei Suprunov, the general director of Inteks, said that his company would be responsible for approximately 90% of the design work on the stadium, while Sport Engineering "actually oversees and inspects the work of the agency that will defend the project during the state approval procedures." "The general contractor was chosen through a tender in which everything was transparent, I can only feel aggrieved that I came up short and was outplayed," stated Suprunov.

The most important criteria for the tender were the price and time frame for the work (the value of each equals to 0.35): the lower and faster the better, and also the quality of the work (0.2) and the scope of the quality guarantee (0.1), according to the tender documentation. The FSUE and Inteks offered quality guarantees and time frames for the work that received identical assessments, although Inteks was far ahead of its competitor when it came to price. But the FSUE scored points on the "quality of the work," which is defined as an extremely detailed description of the sequence of the design work and the optimal methodology of the work – in this category the FSUE was awarded almost the maximum score (18 – 20) from the members of the commission. Officials from the regional Ministry of Construction gave Inteks between 12.6 to 18.6 points, and Pavel Varaksin, an official from the Ministry of Sports, assigned the company only four points. In the end, the FSUE beat its competitor by two points.

"The FSUE's application was better developed, more detailed, and the documents were carefully drafted. Their application was almost twice as thick as the one submitted by Inteks," Varaksin explained yesterday. "The FSUE oversees the process, creates proposals regarding environmental impacts and food-service technology, and calculates the stadium's cost-effectiveness after the 2018 World Cup [in soccer]," said an employee of the FSUE.