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Public Sector

Public entities do not get to choose their systems of record. IFMIS carries the finances, e-GP carries the procurement, and since July 2025 every national and county procurement runs through it. The room to improve is not in replacing those systems — it is in everything the entity does around them.

The situation

What we usually find

For state corporations, agencies, authorities and county entities working within mandated national platforms.

The e-GP platform launched in April 2025 and became the exclusive route for public procurement from 1 July 2025, integrated with IFMIS, KRA iTax and the Business Registration Service, with full transition due by the end of FY 2026/27. That is a substantial change in how entities plan, commit and evidence spending, delivered on a timetable nobody chose.

What entities are left holding is the work between the mandated systems. Internal approvals ahead of a requisition. Records that satisfy an auditor when the national system holds only the transaction. Board and oversight reporting that has to be assembled from platforms designed for consolidation upward, not for management within.

This is unglamorous work and it is where most of the recoverable time sits. It is also where audit findings come from, and public-sector audit findings are read by people outside the entity.

How the work flows

Where the pressure points are

Every business in this sector runs a version of this cycle. These are the points where it strains when the systems behind it do not join up — and where the value of joining them up shows first.

The Plan to account cycle, and where it strains without joined-up systems. Plan: Procurement plans built in spreadsheets, then re-entered into the mandated platform. Approve: Internal approvals conducted on paper and email, ahead of a system that records only the outcome. Commit: Commitment against vote known centrally but not by the department that is spending it. Deliver: Contract performance tracked by whoever holds the file, not by the entity. Account: Management and oversight reporting assembled by hand from systems built to report upward.

Where we'd start

The first move

We would map one procurement from the moment somebody identifies a need to the moment it is recorded in the national system — every internal approval, every document, every wait. The elapsed time in that map is nearly always dominated by steps that happen before the mandated platform is touched at all.

Where we are not the answer

We do not replace IFMIS, e-GP or any mandated national platform, and we would treat any firm offering to as a warning sign. We also do not participate in procurement processes we have advised on the specification for — that is a conflict, and it is one we decline rather than manage. Our work is the internal process, the reporting layer and the systems the entity genuinely owns.

Is this how your operation runs?

Tell us where it strains, and we will tell you plainly which of this is relevant to you and which of it is not — before you commit to anything.

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