Court nullifies KPA legal services tender

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) Acting MD John Mwangemi inside the Lamu Port in Lamu County. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG

The High Court has quashed a tender by the Kenya Ports Authority for pre-qualification of legal services, saying it was discriminatory and violated the law.

In a decision likely to be received well by small and medium-sized law firms, Justice James Makau declared that the mandatory condition imposed by KPA in the tender, requiring at least one partner in a bidding law firm to be a certified arbitrator was “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void”.

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