Technology has become very integral in our day to day lives and an important part of how we do business or access services in the country. Therefore, it is only fair that we critically look at how these new technologies are impacting the Kenya public procurement sector.

In recent years, there has been a deliberate push to disrupt various elements of the procurement process through adoption of innovations and interventions such as:

• ERP systems
• External Supplier databases and directories for sourcing suppliers
• Tender alerts and notifications services
• Procure-to-pay solutions that allow procuring entities to outsource their evaluation and awarding process
• More and more and more ERPs

 

At Scale, we believe that all types of businesses should be able to actively participate and thrive in the economy.

But other than the tender alert services (which are already pricey), all the innovations listed above are mainly targeted towards the procuring entities.

Until now, no one has managed to provide the supplying entities with a fully automated tender preparation system which ensures entrepreneurs and SMEs can discover, prepare and submit a tender response all on one platform.

Why the exclusion? Shouldn’t the process of digitization and improving the procurement sector include or even start with the suppliers involved in the process?

At Scale, we believe that all types of businesses should be able to actively participate and thrive in the economy. Scale provides various tools that give entrepreneurs, SMEs and procuring entities the ability to do so much more by being more effective.

With a focus on the perspective of SMEs, Scale aims to use technology to impact and transform the procurement space by:

• Fostering competition by helping more firms enter the market
• Achieving better value for money for procuring entities through diverse suppliers providing quality submissions
• Promoting innovation given that SMEs can bring innovation through early exploitation of new technology, products, and services to new or underdeveloped markets
• Fostering job creation and greater employment as SMEs employ a large percentage of the economy
• Decreasing industry concentration and influence of established networks of larger firms
• Promoting equity, social cohesion as well as remediation of past discrimination and disadvantage
• Redistribution of wealth by driving demand in areas of the economy not historically reached
• Improving access to large markets, technology transfer, market linkages and export development

We aim to achieve all this by becoming the ideal tendering partner for you and your business. We would love to hear from you on how we can improve the participation of SMEs in both the public and private sector procurement spaces in Kenya.

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