The contract validity period was to expire on 26th February 2023 and according to procurement rules, upon expiry, the tender stands cancelled and must be re-advertised.It is against such fears that Rento went to the Review Board three days before the expiry of the validity period to request that it be extended for a further 90 days. KETRACO were caught pants down when the Review Board demanded a written explanation and submission as to why they had not signed the contract. With no valid answer, KETRACO only claimed that the legal team was still working on the contract
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Attempts by the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) top management to knock Rentco Africa Limited out of a multi-million shillings tender on a technicality has hit a dead end after the Public Administrative Review Board extended the contract’s validity period.
Rentco Africa Limited had won tender No. KETRACO-ST-009-2021 for design, construction and commercial operation of Tier IV Data Centre on a revenue sharing model but KETRACO under the watchful eye of the Acting Managing Director Eng. Isaac Kiva and a senior manager of Supply Chain Management officer Peter Njehia ensured that Rentco Africa Ltd failed in their bid to get the said tender.
The two top KETRACO managers schemed and plotted to knock Rentco Africa Limited out on technicalities on the contract validity period. Sources say despite attempts by Rentco Africa Ltd to have the tender signed, KETRACO claimed that they were still looking for a legal team to draft the contract.
The contract validity period was to expire on 26th February 2023 and according to procurement rules, upon expiry, the tender stands cancelled and must be re-advertised.It is against such fears that Rento went to the Review Board three days before the expiry of the validity period to request that it be extended for a further 90 days. KETRACO were caught pants down when the Review Board demanded a written explanation and submission as to why they had not signed the contract. With no valid answer, KETRACO only claimed that the legal team was still working on the contract.
The board, therefore, extended the contract validity period for 90 days from 26th February 2023 to enable KETRACO to finish the whole procurement process and award the tender to Rentco Africa. This is not however the first time this particular tender was being arbitrated by the Review board. The board on a ruling dated 24th January 2023 ordered that the tender be awarded to Rentco Africa Limited.
The ruling reads in part “The respondents be and are hereby directed to enter into a procurement contract with the applicant and before the tender validity expiry period that has been further extended for a period of 90 days from 26th November 2022”.Sources say KETRACO had plotted to award the tender to El Sewedy Technology of Egypt which had worked closely with the two top KETRACO managers.
