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Government to automate procurement by January

Kenya Institute and Supplies and Management CEO Kenneth Matiba (RIGHT) with Kenya National Innovation Agency’s Tony Omwanza. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

The government is expected to save 30 per cent of public procurement resources once the procurement process is fully automated by January next year.

According to the Kenya Institute and Supplies and Management (KISM), digitisation will also reduce fraud.

This comes in the wake of reports of increased cases of graft in the procurement sector, mainly in counties and several government agencies. KISM chief executive Kenneth Matiba the automated process would be paperless and would hasten the procurement process in all government agencies and counties.

He noted that some countries like Rwanda had adopted the process leading to reduced use of government funds during the procurement process. While calling on members of the institute to support the e-system, Matiba said they had embarked on training their members so that the process could be successful.