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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "be maintained for, at least, six years. This is important, so that we can have records and if somebody wants to go back after some time, they can access the records. People leave office and after a few years, in case of any issues, they go scot free because documents cannot be traced. That requirement is very important. The basic procurement rules talk about the responsiveness of a tender. This is also very important. In most places, in a certain tender, if you do not have three or four interested parties, it is not a responsive tender. It may have taken four months to go through the process. If, indeed, only an individual has shown some interest and has qualified all the way through the tendering process in terms of the technical and financial evaluation, we do not need to indicate that this tender was non-responsive. The procurement methods and procedures which have been used should be specified. I agree with the former speakers that the tenders should be specified. There is an open tender and restricted tender. The only thing that we should include under the procurement methods and procedures is an item for the less disadvantaged groups in the society. Lastly, we have the issue of consultancy, which has always been a big challenge in the tendering process. This is one of the areas that have been misused in the past by so many procurement entities in terms of giving very specific instructions on the tender document. Part X has stipulated very clearly the procedures that we should use when we are handling consultancy services. I do not want to repeat most of these things, but the last bit that I want to talk about is Part XII on preferences and reservation in procurement. If you go to any public institution and department, you find that the furniture there is from outside the country. As hon. Nyokabi has said, we should buy Kenya and promote Kenya. That is the process that we need to take. Most of this furniture was bought from China yet we have good carpenters that we can promote locally in terms of buying from them. It is important for us to buy products from this country. This Bill has indicated that you have to give reasons as to why you are not buying products from this country. It is a good step towards reducing unemployment in this country. The last is the disposal aspect. As you dispose assets, most of these business people come with big money into various Government institutions and departments. Whenever you want to conduct a public auction, they come with big money and then the highest bidder will always buy. This denies the employees of a certain procurement entity an opportunity to buy from the company despite having an open tender. This is unfair. The Bill has given a process as to how sales to employees of a procuring entity can be handled. In a place like Nakuru, where we are disposing some Government vehicles or scrap metal, some people come all the way from Mombasa to buy and take everything with them. When the process is localized to the employees, it will go a long way to correct the situation. With those few remarks, I support this Bill. Of course, in the Committee Stage, we will be bringing the issues that I have indicated. We also need to look into other legislation that goes hand in hand with the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Bill, so that we can bring them together. I support."
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