KISM: 60% of government spend is procurement — rewrite the rules
Key points
- KISM’s 5th Procurement and Supply Chain Forum sat in Mombasa on 12 August 2026.
- Chair Jennifer Cirindi: all procurement, public and private, should sit with licensed professionals who can be held to account.
- Senate PAC chair Moses Kajwang: about 60% of government expenditure goes through the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act — judge value, not only budget absorption.
- Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo listed legislation, policy, efficiency and oversight; State House adviser Jaoko Oburu cited the 2005 Act as the modern start.
Sixty per cent of what the state spends, Senate Public Accounts chair Moses Kajwang said, runs through procurement law. That was the number hanging over KISM’s fifth Procurement and Supply Chain Forum in Mombasa on 12 August 2026, The Standard reported.
KISM chair Jennifer Cirindi said the job is to put every tender — public or private — in the hands of qualified, accountable professionals. Kajwang told the institute to use data analytics, push statute changes and discipline members who break the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, and tied cleaner files to faster payment of pending bills. Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo boxed the talk into four words: legislation, policy, efficiency, oversight. State House special adviser Jaoko Oburu said the 2005 Procurement and Disposal Act was the first real rulebook and that spending only works if it reaches the mwananchi. KISM said it is reviewing its own legal frame and wants more supply-chain people inside Parliament’s audit work. A hotel forum does not close a pending-bill ledger — the next Public Procurement Bill draft will.
Sixty per cent without a leak list is a slogan
If most of the budget is tenders, the public needs the last three years’ cancelled and single-sourced counts, not another “value for money” panel.
Business desk: Business. Verified 60% line, 12 August forum and Cirindi/Kajwang/Amollo quotes from The Standard.
KISM should publish how many members it has disciplined since 2023. The National Treasury should table pending-bill ageing next to Kajwang’s point.
Suppliers should keep award letters; a professionalised cadre still has to pay on time.
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Based on The Standard reporting of the Mombasa KISM forum. The 60% figure is Kajwang’s statement at that event.
