Kampala. Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has proposed that a service provider contracted to clean the city shall be awarded a 12-month contract which is renewable only once upon satisfactory performance.
For close to ten years, cleaning services in Kampala have been provided by divisional Savings and Credit Cooperative Society-SACCOS which were formed in 2014 on the advice of the then KCCA Executive Director Jenifer Musisi who wanted City cleaners to use SACCOs to save, get loans and earn interest on their money.
But since their inception, these SACCOS have not been subjected to an open bidding process and have received contracts less than thrice. The contracts were automatically renewed to allow SACCOs to continue their operations.
However, a proposed policy to streamline the reservation scheme for providing cleaning, landscaping and desilting services in Kampala KCCA is pushing for the removal of the automatic renewal of contracts.
Meanwhile, the move comes at a time when there are two types of cleaning entities on the street doing the same job. In 2020, the Seven Hills group started cleaning Kampala, first as volunteers and later demanded payment.
Source: URN
