Firm wants probe into KRA tenders

By JUDY OGUTU

An insurance brokerage firm wants the Public Procurement Oversight Authority compelled to investigate circumstances under which Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) awarded three tenders.

Getrio Insurance Brokers Ltd is seeking to have KRA probed as to how it awarded three tenders for provision of insurance brokerage services.

In particular, the investigations should focus on whether KRA violated the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005, the Public Procurement and Disposal Regulations and directions issued by the oversight authority to procuring entities.

In a suit filed at the High Court in Nairobi, the firm claims the oversight authority has failed or neglected to execute its express mandate as stipulated under the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 as read together with the Public Procurement and Disposal Regulations, 2006.

fundamental issues

Through its advocate Alloys Apell Kwengu, the company also claims the procurement authority has failed to address pertinent and fundamental issues raised by the applicant with respect of the tenders.

It adds that it is only fair that the High Court compels the procurement authority to undertake its lawful mandate.

Getrio Insurance claims it has participated in two tenders by the tax collector and has reasons to believe they have not been undertaken in a fair, accountable and transparent manner as envisaged under the Act.

Further, it alleges it has on several occasions brought to the attention of the procurement authority cases of breach of the Act and regulations by KRA with a request that it carries out investigation as mandated by the Act, but the procurement authority has failed to carry out investigations.