In an effort to reduce corruption, improve transparency and efficiency, and minimize potential collusion among suppliers and bidders, the Government, through the National Treasury, embarked on developing the electronic government procurement systems, also known as e-GP systems.
Accordingly, Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) is the use of information technology (especially the Internet) by governments in procuring works, goods, and services requested by the public.
Significant progress has been made in developing the E-GP system. We had a chance to have a sit down with the National Treasury, Director of Public Procurement, Erick Korir, to learn more on the progress, the salient features of the system, the challenges they have faced so far and the expected impact once the system is up and running