With thanks to Mtukufu Rais Uhuru, Jubilee government, BBI e.t.c to push tender business hadi chini kwa mwanachi ya kawaida through engaging jua kali people (for example in supplying school desk, Big four doors and window ), and seeing corona hardships, most of those sme's here facing problems, jobloss, e.t.c let's kindly discuss these extremely noteworthy change to Kenya's economics here and how we can win this tenders.

Am convinced Uhuru will pull through the economy very fast!

Nimeamua kucheza tender!!

I asked a question in another thread and nobody gave a good answer so I will ask again.

Why do we need tenders in Kenya?

If a county needs to buy desks, then why not just publish the bid and have reputable companies bid for the business. Then select the one that makes the best offer?

Asking governors to give tenders to Mwananchi wa Kawaida as you say will not stop corruption. It will just push corruption further downwards.

Waititu gave awarded a tender for Ksh 2.3 million to supply 8 tyres. How will this be stopped if governors give tenders to mwananchi wa kawaida? He can still give mwnanchi wa kawaida the 2.3 million tender and take 70% of it.

On the other hand if governors are forced to publish the bid and accept the best offer, you will reduce corruption significantly. Companies will bid lower and even offer quantity discounts.

Your thinking is revolutionary my brother. We don't need a tender process.

For example..
If a county wants to buy 10 Toyota landcruisers to be used as ambulances, why float a tender for this? Why not go direct to Toyota Kenya and purchase these vehicles directly instead of sending @Fyatu in the name of a tender to purchase the vehicles for them(county)?

If a ministry wants to buy bic ball pens, why send @radiomast to purchase these when the procurement officer can simply pick a phone and call someone at Haco industries and order for these...

Kenya is a stupidly peculiar nation. Kuzaliwa Kenya ni laana

You get me wrong. The question is whether a tender is required in the first place.

The county/ministry has a procurement officer employed and earning a salary.

Take for instance Marsabit county, If there is a need to buy ambulances for Marsabit county, then Toyota landcruiser hardtop is the best option. Why then send @Fyatu(via a tender)?What is stopping the procurrement officer from calling Toyota Kenya and making an order?

If it is the law that is stopping procurrement officer from direct purchase, why are the semi-senile BBI wazee not changing this law that has provided a conduit for taxes to be stolen in broad daylight and for that matter legally?

Eliminate the middleman/broker/tenderpreneur e.g., @fyatu and there will be no loss of money.

Kuzaliwa Kenya ni laana

Tender yetu imekulwo. Those of us whose applications were successful were "awarded" tenders about three weeks ago on a Friday from "The Presidency" and pre-qualification documents from ministry of education. We were told the first half of the funds as declared by the Uhunye et al would be in our accounts by Tuesday. We should then immediately make one COMPLETE set of the school equipment tendered for, photograph it and wait for a go ahead/inspection to complete the rest.

Tuesday turned into two weeks, no funds, meanwhile in Nairobi the jua kali workshops had started and the above procedure followed there, huku mashinani!!! Jua kali sme's wanaonyeshwa mambo. Where can rural sme's run to? This are just some "poor" wanyonges to the max. In the course of these delays some tenders started mysteriously "changing hands" and people being pressured to decline. For example whereas the time-frame given initially was one month, letters emerged demanding they be completed in two weeks and some pulled out.

A few days ago, a G.K stopped at my workshop and a very kali jamaa from "presidency" whom i knew as one of the officers responsible and another two started asking me to show him the timber, frames e.t.c which was NOT IN LINE with what the president and those issuing the tender had said. He became very very kali and "cancelled" my tender without giving anything in writing, mara that that! Hauna Capacity!!! This seemed like a way to make me appear to abandon the process. My workshop is the only one with pipe benders, cutoff saws, IGBT welders and other specialized equipment

Am certain the tender has been awarded to a 'licensed firearm holder' among many other's, i heard there was a lady going round with a letter "from above" demanding 1000 pieces of work from the 3000 pieces that had been awarded to our constituency. Approximately 20 workshops had been awarded the tenders but am kind of certain that the Kabura-like lady had some powerful person behind her.

That is the story of Jua Kali tenders from first hand experience.