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Publish Date : 16-Oct-2015

The Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) in partnership with German International Cooperation (GIZ), have announced plans to automate procurement processes in 13 regions across the country.

During a forum on Thursday to train and enlighten suppliers on how to carry out the process in Kisumu, the GIZ representative Mr Dan Mugendi stated that the exercise will be launhced at the beginning of the next financial year. Main objective of e-procurement is to introduce prospective payment Information System (IFMIS) which fully automates the procurement and payment process.

The automated process will help in setting in better transparency and accountability to the previously flawed procedures, he added.

Officials from treasury stated that, the system will even help reduce the workload involved in the process of tendering, costs and time involved as suppliers will not be required to travel long stances to place tenders in different counties and/or ministries head offices.

At the forum, Mr Linus Mureithi from compliance office of the PPOA took the suppliers through a course on how to effectively make use of the e-procurement interface stressing that the supplier needs to pay attention to detail.

The system is expected to boost policy compliance as well as reduce the human interface in the procurement procedure thereby minimising corruption that were prevalent in the manual procurement.

This system is much like the manual one but faster and much more efficient. Through it, one will be notified when tenders are available via emails and the whole procurement cycle is fully automated making it easier for one to expect payment early too, said Mureithi.

As prospective suppliers from different groups pay attention to detail especially the youth and people living with disability, avail certificates that identify you since the process largely depends on the documentation offered, he said. Time is another factor that you should respect and appreciate, the tendering process solely depends on it and the system has a timer for every time each bid expires, he added.

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