IEBC digital polls platform tender runs into trouble as firm protests

The plan to purchase a common digital platform for voter listing, identification and relay of results has run into tendering headwinds after one of the bidders moved to the procurement tribunal alleging a Chickengate-type scandal.

Dittel Ltd, a Nairobi-based company, has moved to the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board seeking to quash the tender claiming that its documents were designed and prepared by French firm Morpho — which supplied 15,000 biometric voter registration kits for the 2013 polls.