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Kenya Tenders Report · Jan–Mar 2026

Q1 2026: 6 tenders, 6 buyers.

What Kenya's public buyers, private companies and development partners put out to tender between Jan and Mar 2026, counted from the notices published on this site; award values from the contract awards PPRA publishes. Free to quote with a link.

tenders published
6
tenders published
procuring entities
6
procuring entities
reserved (AGPO, youth, women, PWD)
33.3%
reserved (AGPO, youth, women, PWD)
counties named
5+
counties named

Published by month

By the date the notice was published, Nairobi time.

  1. 2Jan
  2. 1Feb
  3. 3Mar

Kind of notice

Supplier registration windows and EOIs are counted apart from tenders proper.

  1. Tenders6

Who was buying

  1. Public sector6

By category

A tender naming two categories counts in both. Each links to the open tenders in that category today.

  1. Building works3 · 50%
  2. Water and sanitation works2 · 33.3%
  3. Electrical works1 · 16.7%
  4. Other1 · 16.7%
  5. Roads and civil works1 · 16.7%

By county

The twenty counties named most, plus 0 notices naming no county (national or at the buyer's headquarters).

  1. Nairobi2
  2. Busia1
  3. Embu1
  4. Kiambu1
  5. Nyandarua1

By kind of buyer

From the buyer directory: county governments, parastatals, ministries, hospitals, schools, NG-CDF and the rest.

  1. County governments5
  2. State corporations (parastatals)1

Reserved tenders

2 of 6 (33.3%) were reserved under AGPO for youth-, women- or PWD-owned firms. The law asks for 30% of procurement budgets, not 30% of notices, so read this as a floor on opportunity, not a compliance score.

  1. Persons with disability1
  2. Women1

The busiest buyers

By notices published in the quarter. Follow any of them and we tell you the day the next one is posted.

  1. Busia County Government1
  2. Embu County Government1
  3. Kenya Rural Roads Authority1
  4. Kiambu County1
  5. Nairobi County Government1
  6. Nyandarua County Government1
Every buyer, with their record

What awards were worth

1,959 contract awards dated in the quarter, 1,940 with a published value. Median, with the middle half of awards (25th to 75th percentile). Source: PPRA.

CategoryAwards25th pctMedian75th pctTotal
Works902KSh 1.90MKSh 3.90MKSh 5.76MKSh 15.22B
Goods809KSh 229KKSh 876KKSh 2.40MKSh 13.33B
Services248KSh 270KKSh 749KKSh 2.18MKSh 2.69B
  1. Works, median awardKSh 3.90M
  2. Goods, median awardKSh 876K
  3. Services, median awardKSh 749K

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Method: every notice with status published and a publication date in the quarter (Nairobi time), from the Public Procurement Information Portal (tenders.go.ke, run by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority), World Bank procurement notices (CC BY 4.0) and buyers who list with Tendakazi. A notice naming several categories or counties is counted once in each. Awards: Source: PPRA, from its published OCDS award data, by award date; values as published, and a contract can be varied after award. Figures are a guide, not an audit.

Kenya Tenders Report, Q1 2026: 6 tenders published · Tendakazi