Kenya: Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA)

The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) publishes public procurement data for Kenya through the Public Procurement Information Portal (PPIP).

PPIP is designed to publish contract awards and tender notices as per Executive Order No. 2 of 2018, which requires all procurement entities to disclose public procurement and asset disposal information through the portal. PPIP aims to enhance accountability and transparency in public procurement and asset disposal, aligning with Article 227 of the Constitution of Kenya, which mandates a fair, equitable, transparent, competitive, and cost-effective system. The dataset includes procurement data from all public buyers across both National and County Governments without exclusions, except for classified procurements made by national security agencies. Procurement data covers all procurement methods and categories. Updates to the data are made on a daily basis.

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV
Access

Overview

Data date range:
Jul 2018 - Dec 2024
Update frequency:
Daily
Main language:
English
OCID prefix:
ocds-5whusi
License:
-
Publication policy:
-
Last retrieved:
Feb 2025 (retrieved monthly)
Retrieved from:
https://tenders.go.ke/ocds

Data available

A contracting process has several stages: tendering, awarding, contracting and implementation. You can learn about the contracting stages in this tutorial.

Parties

Count of parties:
632,091

Planning

Count of planning activities:
0

Tenders

Count of tenders:
203,419
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
0

Awards

Count of awards:
87,265
Count of suppliers:
58,592
Count of award items:
0

Contracts

Count of contracts:
87,265
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
0

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

No extensions or additional fields are used.

Data quality

The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:

  • The data includes empty array for awards and contracts
  • The total value of the top 1% of the fields contracts/value/amount and awards/value/amount is more than that of the remaining values, indicating the presence of extreme outliers in those fields.
  • An invalid organizational identifier scheme is provided for suppliers
  • No organizational identifier scheme is provided for buyers
  • The parties array is missing the names of some buyers and suppliers. The corresponding names can be found in the buyer.name and awards.supplier.name fields.

Last reviewed: Dec 2024

Access data

This OCDS dataset is available for download in JSON, Excel or CSV format. You can download the data for contracting processes in a specific year or for all time.

JSON

Each contracting process is represented as one line of JSON text in the .jsonl file.

The .jsonl file is compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .gz file.

Excel

Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the _link_main column.

Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.

CSV

Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the _link_main column.

The .csv files are archived using tar and compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .tar.gz file.

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