<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27341"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27374"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27373"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27372"><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27371"><div id="yiv1084163764"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27370"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_27369"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4210"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4209">Wow Muraya, you are onto something here but I am still a government official. By the way, the 'slow pace of take off' that the media insinuate did not influence my decision as that I understand and can be explained in some cases. It is true some issues could have moved faster. Can I respond generally as a Kenyan but 'carefully'? The Procurement Law really needs a serious review. It is important to address the following:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4211"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4206"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4205">1. The lowest quote does not necessarily mean they are the best or understand the job. Actually I know a case (and do not say I said in the Konza project as I know media are lurking around but I am sharing this positively) that required PPOA to clarify and assist which they ably did. But the question is whether the Procurement Officers in responsible agencies are adept to understanding how to assess some of these issues logistically?</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4204"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4203">2. When is comes to complex ICT projects, must it be Officers who do those jobs to make the decisions when they may not have sufficient knowledge, experiential or otherwise? Is there are way that others can be legally mandated in special cases to make decisions rather than give information.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4214"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4202"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4201">Let me leave it there for now, please pretty please...until later.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4215"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4200"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4199">Best Regards,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4216"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4198"><span id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4197">Catherine</span></div> <div class="yiv1084163764qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9724"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1084163764yqt1610733108" id="yiv1084163764yqt22002"><div class="yiv1084163764yahoo_quoted" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4484" style="display: block;"> <div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4483" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"> <div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4482" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4481"> <font id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_4480" size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:22 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv1084163764y_msg_container" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_5037"><div id="yiv1084163764"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_5036"><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9728">Morning.</div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9725"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9727">The nation article noted:</div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9726"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9416">"It was, however, clear from her statements that bureaucratic tendering, resource constraints and the slow pace of takeoff had largely influenced her decision..."</div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_5288"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_5035">Essentially, how do you think some of the issues noted in the statement can be resolved? Repeatedly we have heard, since NARC days, from the highest levels of office, about how slow (bureaucratic) procurement is in Kenya. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv1084163764yui_3_16_0_1_1422530583386_9729">What is in place to ensure lower budgets, quotations, offers are not used to discourage or sabotage progressive talent and works requiring higher budgets?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>How can our procurement (whether manual or electronic) system factor the motivation of talent?</div></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>