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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that we put matters in their proper perspective so that we can remove rumours from this House. I take great exception to the aspersions cast by the hon. Member, that this contract was single-sourced. Speaking from a point of ignorance will not bring the political mileage that some hon. Members are seeking. The Controller and Auditor-General advised that further evaluation was necessary and that Report was laid on the Table of this House. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) advised that we should take further action and validate those claims. We took that seriously and we searched, internationally, for firms to propose to come and do this evaluation. When we requested for proposals, we got them from the following firms: Sociatal General De Sovereign (SGS) of May 3, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1101 Switzerland; Cotecna Inspection of Switzerland; Bureau Veritas of Switzerland; Dispute Analytic of USA; PriceWaterhouseCoopers of Kenya; Ernst and Young of Kenya, and Keat Peat Marwick Group (KPMG) of Kenya. We invited all these seven firms to submit their proposals to be considered as part of the team that was going to peruse these contracts. The proposals were to be submitted by these firms by Tuesday, 30th October, 2006, at 12.00 noon. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also set up a technical team that was going to evaluate all these proposals. This was an inter-Ministerial team comprising of the Ministry of Finance, the Directorate of Procurement and the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). By the deadline of the submission of proposals, two firms; that is, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst and Young had submitted their proposals. We went through a whole technical evaluation of the two proposals at the technical level even before the financial level. Out of that analysis, PriceWaterhouseCoopers was awarded the contract. I must say that their bid was not only strongly technically responsive, but was financially lower than the competitor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when some hon. Members stand up in this House and make wild allegations that this was single- sourcing, it is important that those hon. Members be held responsible for the allegations that they make in this House."
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