This archive report was first published on 26 October 2019.
Published on October 26, 2019, the High Court has issued a stay order on the Sh12.6 billion police vehicle tender, pending a ruling on January 20, 2020.
CMC Motors, a dealer in police vehicles, had appealed against the decision of the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board (PPARB) to cancel the tender. The company claimed that the Interior Ministry flouted procurement rules by awarding the tender to another company on September 20, two days after the ruling of PPARB.
According to CMC, the ministry flouted Section 175 of the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act 2015, which gives a 14-day window for appeal after the tribunal's ruling. The company wants the review board to declare the tender for the leasing of motor vehicles from local assemblies illegal, null and void.
Under the phase I and II programmes, which started in 2013, the National Police Service (NPS) leased 530 Ford Ranger single- and double-cabin pick-up trucks for police and county government administrators. NPS leased from CMC 75 vehicles three years later to bring the number of vehicles to 605.
The Interior ministry is now caught up in a vicious fight after it terminated the CMC tender, weeks to the lapse of Phase II.
