Nairobi, Kenya: The Government has put in place plan to ensure implementation of the newly introduced e-procurement platform, IFMIS.
Through the National Treasury, the Government will beginning Wednesday March 18 start training officials from state corporations on how to use IFMIS e-procurement system. This is expected to boost the uptake of the system as the roll out of the automated procurement and payment platform within the corporations gathers momentum.
The training that will run Wednesday through Friday is targeted at procurement, finance and ICT officers from all state corporations and will equip them with knowledge and skills to effectively operate the IFMIS e-procurement system.
The IFMIS e-procurement and payment platform was launched August 2014 by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“The launch was a major stride towards automating public procurement processes, with the intention of reducing wastage in the use of public resources and entrenching efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in the use of public funds,” said Dr Kamau Thugge Principal Secretary National Treasury.
“An Executive Order No. 6 dated March 6, 2015 has been released, regarding Ethics and Integrity in the Public Service. The Executive Order directs all State Corporations to immediately migrate their procurement systems to the e-procurement platform developed by the National Treasury, and to communicate on the status of this migration in the next two weeks.”
The IFMIS Department has already started roll out of the system to state corporations that are under the National Treasury.
The roll out of the system within state corporations follows success in the uptake of IFMIS e-procurement within Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The system is also being implemented within County Governments.
The IFMIS e-procurement system is also expected to speed up payments made to suppliers.
Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta asked all government agencies to ensure they abide with the Executive Order No. 6.
“I am reminding Government officials that they are left with one week and all those in charge of Government agencies will be held personally responsible if they fail to adopt the e-procurement system,” said the President.
“Our objective is to ensure all procurements are made public for wananchi to see the transparency of the process.”
