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    "id": 863071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863071/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "and National Prison Service Comprehensive Group Life Insurance Scheme. If you look at the procurement of that insurance scheme, you will be shocked. Here is a case where in the first place, the tendering was restricted. You wonder why a tender for supply of a basic service such as insurance is restricted. That is the first instance. The tendering process was restricted, which is clearly against the law. If you look at the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, even of 2005 before it was amended in 2015, there are very clear guidelines as to when you can resort to either restricted tendering or direct procurement. This guideline was clearly violated. After restricting the tendering process, amongst the companies that were selected to participate in the process, the lowest bid was from a known company, namely BRITAM, which placed a bid of Kshs650 million. This contract was eventually awarded to a company called Pioneer Insurance Company, whose bid was a whooping Kshs1.7 billion. The reason being advanced for disqualifying the lowest evaluated bidder is that the tender document was not duly completed, and that the format of the form of tender had been violated by not stating the capacity of the signatory. The second one is that the bid document required that the person signing the form of tender indicates his or her capacity in the organisation."
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