KENYA POWER TENDER MAY 2025
| REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST |
PROPOSALS FOR IT & OT SOLUTIONS FOR A LARGE POWER UTILITY
| Sector: | Energy |
| Expression Of Interest Reference Number: | KP1/9A.2/EQI/002/1CT/24-25 |
| Country: | Kenya |
- BACKGROUND
The Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited PLC was established as a Limited Liability Company In accordance with the Companies Act, Cap 486 of the Laws of Kenya. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company PLC. (The Company) Is a Public Limited Liability Company Incorporated In Kenya under the Companies Act, 2015 (previously Chapter 486, Laws of Kenya) and Hated on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The Company’s core business Is to transmit, distribute and retail electricity which Is purchased In bulk from various generating companies and to provide related customer services throughout Kenya. It operates under the regulatory framework outlined In the Energy Act of 2019. The Company has a customer base of over 9 million and a network span of over 300,000 kilometres.
The company’s ability to strategically manage the national grid is an issue that is at the core of Its ability to provide better services to its customers; to effectively manage power losses; and to optimize operational costs, The Company considers strategic application of technology to be critical to Its overall mission and success. Therefore, the company wishes to undertake a business transformation Initiative in phases, driven by its core values, to enhance its service delivery In a transformative way. In this regard, the company Intends to prequalify competent service providers with requisite capacity and demonstrated track record to partner with In this journey, through this expression of Interest (EOI).
- OBJECTIVE OF THIS TENDER
The overall objective of this tender Is to receive comprehensive expressions of Interest from competent solution providers to partner with Kenya Power through provision of world-class solutions that will enable the company to transform its business operations by modernizing and transforming Its IT and OT ecosystem. This tender also seeks to pre-qualify consultancy firms to provide capacity building consultancy services In Change Management and training on specific professional areas.
Scope
The EOI Is divided Into LOTs as outlined below. Eligible Service Providers may participate in one or more of the listed LOTs based on their expertise and experience
| Lot No | Lot Name | Component Description |
| 1 | Grid Management Systems | The Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) |
| Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) | ||
| Distribution Management Systems (DMS) | ||
| Outage Management Systems (OMS) | ||
| Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS) | ||
| Field Force Automation | ||
| 2 | Customer Management & Billing | Commercial Sales, Revenue Management and Customer Experience |
| Billing (Prepaid and Post Paid) | ||
| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | ||
| Meter Data Management (MDM) | ||
| Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) System | ||
| Energy Balance System (Generation, Transmission, Distribution (MV & Transformers) and Retail) | ||
| 3 | Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) | Finance |
| Human Resource | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) | ||
| Enterprise Risk Management | ||
| Fleet Tracking and Management System | ||
| 4 | Systems Integration | Enterprise Service Bus (OT/IT – EBS) |
| 5 | Business Intelligence & Analytics | Data Lake (OT/IT) |
| Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics | ||
| Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning | ||
| Electronic Document Management | ||
| 6 | Grid design and digitization | Network Planning and Analysis (Transmission and Distribution) |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) | ||
| GIS Adoption and Utility Digitalization | ||
| 7 | Technology Infrastructure | Data Centres |
| Local Area Networks | ||
| Wide Area Networks | ||
| Cloud Services | ||
| Telecommunications | ||
| 8 | Capacity Building Consultancy Services | IT Service Management (ITIL Framework) |
| Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF) | ||
| Project Management (PRINCE 2 Agile) | ||
| DevOps | ||
| Software Testing | ||
| Business Process Management | ||
| Organizational Change Management |
