On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:29 PM, wesley kiriinya<kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Seems like GOK has put info on business licenses online, and the website looks nice. Good move.
Great! Its nice to read it was 'developed in cooperation with Investment Climate Advisory Services, World Bank Group'. In January 2007, at a technology meeting convened by the World Bank, I did suggest Kenya government considers implementing something similar to http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ - good to see WB+GoK now have it. We now need to lobby for the rapid implementation of an online public tenders portal by Public Procurement and Oversight Authority to remove government tenders corruption. Appreciate PPOA's, albeit belated, reporting "Contract Awards" http://www.ppoa.go.ke/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47 by when deals were concluded ages ago. An online tenders portal opens tenders to everyone interested in bidding to participate - currently only a handful do so... Further it opens tenders to public scrutiny for violations of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005, for example, government departments and State Corporations tendering for "Microsoft Windows" "Microsoft Word" "HP" and other manufacturer, product, or source - specific items on their tenders - which is illegal as per PPDA, 2005. And which continues to blocked-out Open Source service providers from bidding on government tenders, and its anti-competitive... regards, Alex