Why GDC was blocked from cancelling geothermal plant tender

A geothermal well discharging steam at the Menengai Geothermal Development Company (GDC) project in Nakuru County on June 7, 2023.

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The Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has been ordered to conclude a tender for the construction and operation of a power plant that it had attempted to illegally cancel.

GDC had opened bids for the supply and installation of a 5-10 MW geothermal wellhead power plant (GWPP) at the Menengai geothermal project on October 18, 2024, but cancelled the tender on December 3 the same year — triggering a legal fight that was escalated to the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board (PPARB).

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