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    "id": 1152533,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "When this becomes public, everybody is able to see how the tender documents look like, and this cannot be changed. For avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this sub-section shall apply. That is, the regulations that have been put into place to ensure the transparency of these tenders is enhanced at the various stages. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Bill has various clauses. All in all, as the Mover of this Bill said, it is really to create efficiency of public service and in the process of procurement. It is meant to encourage, enhance and almost create a burst in terms of interest in procurement, which is key. As we have been analysing and talking about the various counties, this is one issue that always turns out. The issue of procurement, who is awarded and whether there is a relationship between the procurement officers and the people who are awarded this procurement. This can be a game-changer, especially within devolution, when we are talking about spurring the economic growth of the counties and own-source revenue. It is important to know if somebody can deliver the tender awarded to them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we know various cases of people who are awarded a tender and then they suddenly try to get their assets changed into money, so that they can use the money to procure for a tender. Sometimes they actually get a tender and deliver, but when it comes to remuneration, there are crisscrosses or problems that make it such a process. We know of very many families and procurement entities that have ended up being disadvantaged as a result of this. This has even been to the extent that you find somebody’s savings are actually taken away completely. Many of these are addressed, for example, in Clause 28, which states- “Section 121 of the \"Principal Act\" is amended – (a) in subsection (1), by deleting the words \"accounting officer of a procuring entity\" and substituting therefor the words \"evaluation committee\". An evaluation committee will now have to be put in place. The responsibility now is not just for the accounting officer. This is an amorphous of a procuring entity. The emphasis of “accounting officer of a procuring entity” will now be on the evaluation committee. That evaluation committee can actually go through the specific outputs in terms of the processes for those tenders. It should ensure that the process of the evaluation committee is very transparent. I think that it is from the evaluation committee that they will be able to move in to the exposure of putting out everything into the website, so that everybody might to see and understand what is going on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Authority is given a lot of responsibilities in this Amendment Bill. Clause 29 (c) says- “By adding the following new subsection immediately after subsection (15) – The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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