Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1144986,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1144986/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 185,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2543,
        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
        "slug": "emmanuel-wangwe"
    },
    "content": "To begin with, the Bill seeks to include other persons that are not regulated under the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management, which is a statutory body that is established by the Supplies Practitioners Management Act No. 17 of 2007. If this proposal goes through as a Bill the way it is, it will proffer to procurement professionals the mandate to regulate the practice of procurement and supply chain management in Kenya. There are quite a number of agencies or persons who have not been captured under the KISM Act. Therefore, this Bill has brought on board quite a number of them, and it will be good that we pass it the way it is so that the many that have been causing confusion or those who have not been working in tandem with the law can now submit to the law. Another proposal which is coming out very clearly in the Bill is to debar the requests of entities that sound or feel frivolous at the Review Board. This proposal is quite welcome as it will provide a consequence for numerous review requests that are not merited and in effect speed up procurement processes. Herein referred are frivolous issues that come up in the procurement processes which then require that a procurement officer makes some stopovers or stops the procurement process to continue. These have been identified, have been dealt with in the Bill and they will make the procurement process seamless and faster. This Bill also introduces a provision, for instance, where a procuring entity lacks the capacity to comply with any provisions of the Act, and the National Treasury is mandated to ensure it offers assistance. This kind of introduction has not been there in the current Procurement Act. Therefore, it is giving latitude that, at the end of the day, it is the National Treasury that will be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}