Court upholds Safaricom-led health-tech contract terming procurement gaps insufficient

High Court upholds IHITS procurement but faults SHIF rollout for violating health rights, ordering reforms and stronger transparency in Kenya’s health system...

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The High Court has upheld the multi-billion-shilling health-tech contract awarded to a Safaricom-led consortium, ruling that procedural deficiencies were insufficient to nullify the procurement of the Integrated Healthcare Information Technology System (IHITS).

The court found the procurement process, while "procedurally imperfect," did not demonstrate fraud or bad faith.
The petitioners had challenged the technical and financial capacity of the Safaricom-led consortium.
Justice Bahati Mwamunye cautioned that the use of a specially permitted procurement framework "is not a license for opacity."

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