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    "content": "economic empowerment of counties, that is the reason there is devolution and it cannot be a public relations exercise. There is a very interesting clause called Promotion of Citizen Contractors. For the benefit of anybody listening or those watching, allow me to introduce you to the promotion of citizen contractors who are Kenyan citizens who own at least 51 per cent shares, they will be getting a bonus of 20 per cent of total score in evaluation provided by the contractors, provided that they attain the minimum technical score. On Clause 86(2) on corruption in tenders, change of numbers and documents, I am told that envelopes are opened at night and then things are sneaked in. That practice is going to come to an end. This Bill requires that there shall be no correction, amendments and adjustments. We have put corruption cartels on notice; it is time for them to evacuate because if they cannot comply, they will have to go and look for a place where they can do illegal business. In the previous Bill, I mentioned that we have had practice in legislation where we provide for regulations, but what happens is that because there is no timeline. The person who is supposed to come up with the regulations takes their sweet time and they do not give regulations. In the Bill, there is a timeline of 12 months given to the Cabinet Secretary to operationalize the Act by drafting regulations. What is more interesting is the same thing that we said in the previous Bill on Fair Administration of Justice. These regulations will have to come to this Parliament for approval. Therefore, we will eliminate the bureaucratic delays that are one of the things that are famous in this country other than Maasai Mara. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, comparatively, the Committee of Finance, Commerce and Budget has gone into great details to check whether we are in good practice with other jurisdictions. You are aware that we have compared our law with that of Botswana. I can confirm on my feet that we have complied with the law in Botswana. We have gone further ashore to the United States of America (USA) and checked whether our Procurement Regulatory Authority enjoys similar functions and whether or not we would have complied in terms of best practice to what they do there. I am happy to say that the law which is the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority Ordinance of 2002, in the USA is on all-force with our current Bill. I would like to say that the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget has proposed various amendments which we will be bringing here. There is something interesting that I noted here which I would like to mention as I support this. There are many methods of procurement that we know, but there is now something called Electronic Reverse Auction. I would love to see electronic procurement; you are aware of it, because when we visited the State of Punjab, they told us that they now have something called e-Procurement. If we have proposed Electronic Reverse Auction, there is no reason we do not have e-Procurement as one of those methods to attain the well written Article 227 on procurement of goods and services. In attempt to make this fast forwarding digital way of procurement, additional procurement methods have also been addressed, including the one that I have just mentioned. For the benefit of those persons who are worried, I want to say that the Bill The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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