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Women and youth firms fail to take up tenders

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Business Daily | by Edwin Mutai

Enterprises owned by women, youth and the disabled have no capacity to absorb billions of shillings in contracts reserved for them by procurement entities, a new report shows.

The disadvantaged groups only managed to take up contracts worth Sh13.6 billion out of Sh19 billion that were reserved by procuring entities at the national and county levels of government.

The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority says the uptake of the reserved procurement spend by the groups is still low at 13 per cent…

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