Kenya’s NCPB reissues tender for 245,000t fertilizers

Kenya's NCPB has issued a fresh tender, closing on 13 September, to buy around 245,000t of various fertilizers for the 2024-25 season under the country's fertilizer subsidy programme.

NCPB initially sought lower quantities in a tender that was to close on 26 August, requesting 82,868t of various fertilizers. But the tender was suspended, citing an appeal from the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board.

In its latest tender, NCPB said agreed contracts are renewable each season for a period of two years under the subsidy programme.

The 13 September tender requests the following:

• 25,000t urea (500,000 x 50kg bags)
• 40,000t CAN 26 (800,000 x 50kg bags)
• 5,000t amsul (100,000 x 50kg bags)
• 15,000t 17-17-17 (300,000 x 50kg bags)
• 15,000t 25-5-5 (300,000 x 50kg bags)
• 35,000t 23-23-0 (700,000 x 50kg bags)
• 10,000t crop-specific NPK fertilizer for top dressing with a minimum nitrogen nutrient content of 26pc plus other micronutrients (200,000 x 50kg bags)
• 70,000t crop-specific NPK fertilizer for planting with a minimum nitrogen nutrient content of 17pc and above, a minimum phosphorus content of 29pc and above, plus other micronutrients (1,400,000 x 50kg bags)
• 30,000t crop-specific NPK fertilizer for planting with a minimum nitrogen nutrient content of 9-16.99pc, a minimum phosphorus content of 22-28.99pc and above, plus other micronutrients (600,000 x 50kg bags)

The complex fertilizers requested are to be chemically compounded.

Offers are to be made on a delivered-to-NCPB-depot basis.

The tender document also states that a supplier will not be awarded for the supply of more than two fertilizer types.

By Nykole King