Dear Eric, I am out of the country but I know this week CCK shall formally introduce the Standard Bank (financial arranger) to formerly start incorporating the private sector and other stakeholders. I think everybody is simply impatient. We shall ensure that the processes are followed to the letter. I am only asking everybody to see the big picture. We shall deliver the cable a head of any other cable in EA. Teams is a means to an end while all others are an end to everthing. Regards Ndemo.
Dr. Ndemo,
Thanks for the elaborate explanation for which i have a question and caution; Q. Why is private sector, Academia and CS not represented on the Teams Project Committee given that it is a multi-stakeholder approach, correct me if am wrong?
C. As much as am for SPEED, lets make sure that we do all the checks and balances because some omissions may end up sticking us in the bud.
Eric here
On 14 Mar 2007, at 09:09, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
Dear Wakabi, Thank you for raising the question on whether the Ministry ignored best practices in procurement. The answer is No. There are three approved methods of procurement, that is, open tender, selective tender and single sourcing. Open tender you have got to adverise and any interested party can bid to supply service. It is a lengthy procedure (takes a minimum 45 days). It is the most competitive of all. Logically it applies to goods that can be obtained from many sources.
Selective tendering however, is mostly applied to a sitiation where the popolation of the suppliers is limited as in Marine works. There are two companies, that is, Tyco and Alcatel that have the necesary experience to do such jobs. There are three other companies, that is, NEC, Fujistu and Global Marine/Huaweii that are usually subcontracted by the larger two. They have limited experience compared to the big two. Therefore it would have been absolutely non sense and wasteful to advertise for the the works in the local papers.
Single sourcing is used where there is only one supplier of service/ good or where there is an emergence. The committee which is tasked with the Teams project comprising the Investment Secretary, Director, Directorate of Procurement, MD Telkom, Solocitor General, and CCK Director General agreed to fast track the project by seeking authority from Treasury to procure Detailed Feasibility Study (DFS), Detailed Technical Study (DTS), and The Mirine Survey (MS)using the later methods and subjected Financial Arrager (FA) tender to an open tender.
If you look at the overall project, the four services DFS, DTS, MS and FA are crucial to determining the time the project takes. Three of these projects DFS, DTS, and FA are complete and once the MS is complete, it would enable us to procure the supply contract with sufficient knowledge. Secoindly, whoever is awarded the contract, will actually immediately procure the material since all the information is available.
The argument that the MS is given along with the Suply contract does not hold water since there are many cable networks that have used the model. EASSY for example will not know the material requirement until the MS is complete. In technical terms they are several months behind Teams.
You must understand that there are several interested parties, some who want to make quick bucks. Ask yourself: what is it they are seeing that our people can't see? Consider Germany cable operators bagging in more that 6 billion euros in the last world cup in one month. My friend we need a serious talk. Seriously, if I had my way, I would give the entire works as a tunkey project. By now we could be at least three months to getting connected.
Regards
Bitange Ndemo.
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