29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank all the Members who are present here and even the ones who have left. More so, I want to thank Hon. Gumbo, Hon. Ogari, Hon. Humphrey Njuguna and everybody who took their time to come to the Committee. I also thank the Treasury and the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. We sat down and looked at all the amendments in the Bill and it took us almost four days. Even if this Chamber is not full, we have thoroughly looked at the Bill. I want to thank everybody ...
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support the further amendment that the Chair of the Committee has brought because it defines where you cannot do business. It allows anybody to do business with any other firm apart from where he or she has special interest - like where he works. I support the amendment.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 60 of the Bill be amended— (a) by deleting subclause (3)(b);
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
(b) in subclause (4) by deleting the word “shall” and substituting therefor the word “may”;
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
(c) in subclause (5), by inserting the words “women, youth, persons with disabilities and other” immediately after the words “owned by”. The import of this amendment is that in this age and era we want to disallow any arithmetic corrections that may occur in any tender. That is why we want to delete subclause 3(b). The clause should also be amended because in the original Bill there are two subclauses (4). The second subclause (4) should be subclause (5) and the words The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ...
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
included there should be clear. Here it says “disadvantaged groups.” We want to include women, youth and persons with disabilities to make it clear.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 61 of the Bill be amended by inserting the words “or fraudulent” immediately after the words “any corrupt”; Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we are including the word ‘fraudulent’ because in the Bill it says “corruption”. So, we want to be very clear that it is both corruption and fraud.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 62 of the Bill be amended— (a) in sub-clause (1) by inserting the following new paragraphs immediately after paragraph (f)— (fa) force majeure; (fb) civil commotion, hostilities or an act of war; (fc) upon receiving subsequent evidence of engagement in fraudulent or corrupt practices by the tenderer;” (b) by inserting the following new sub-clause immediately after sub-clause (3)— “(4) An accounting officer shall notify all persons who submitted tenders of the termination within fourteen days of termination and such notice shall contain the reason for termination.” The electronic version of ...
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the reason here is just including civil commotion, hostilities and act of war.
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28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 64 of the Bill be amended by inserting the following new subclause immediately after subclause (2)— “(3) Upon completion of the evaluation process, a tenderer may communicate with the procuring entity on the procurement proceedings”.
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