Consulting Services for Preparation of System Design Requirements, Procurement Documents, and Supervision of Deployment of an Electronic Documents and Records Management System (e-DRMS) at the Urban Development Department and Three Municipalities in Kenya
The State Department for Housing and Urban Development, under Kenya's Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, is seeking expressions of interest from consulting firms for services linked to the Second Kenya Urban Support Program (KUSP II), financed by the World Bank. The assignment covers preparing system design requirements, procurement documents, and supervising the deployment of an Electronic Documents and Records Management System for the Urban Development Department and three municipalities in Kenya. The work is intended to run for eight calendar months across two phases from contract start. Selection will follow the Quality and Cost-Based Selection method under World Bank procurement rules. Firms wishing to participate must demonstrate at least ten years operating in records management and information technology or a related field, along with prior completion of at least two comparable assignments within the last seven years. Submissions should include details of similar past work such as client information, scope, contract value, timelines and deliverables, plus evidence of technical and managerial capacity. Key experts are not assessed at this shortlisting stage. Interested firms can obtain the full terms of reference from the department's or program's websites, or request them directly. Expressions of interest are due by 14 October 2026 and may be submitted physically in Nairobi or by email, addressed to the Principal Secretary of the State Department for Housing and Urban Development.
Overview
This notice concerns a call for expressions of interest issued by Kenya's State Department for Housing and Urban Development, seeking a consulting firm to support the design and supervised rollout of an electronic documents and records management system. The work falls under the Second Kenya Urban Support Program (KUSP II), which is financed by the World Bank. It targets the Urban Development Department and three municipalities in Kenya.
Scope of Work
b) Consulting Firm Experience: The firm shall demonstrate as having successfully executed and completed at least two (2) assignments of similar nature, complexity and in a similar operating environment in the last seven (7) Details of similar assignments, including the name and address of the client, scope of services, contract value, implementation period, and key outputs/deliverables, should be provided in the submitted Expression of Interest (EOI), together with a clear description of the relevance of the assignments to the scope of this consultancy
Requirements & Qualifications
4. The State Department for Housing and Urban Development (the Client) in the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development , now invites eligible Consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services; Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and experience to perform the services (attach evidence). The shortlisting criteria are: a) Core business and years in business: The firm shall be registered/incorporated as a consulting firm with core business in the field of records management and information technology or equivalent for a period of at least 10 years.