Spatial data, the schema it lands in, and who can use it afterwards
Geospatial procurement is about data and the systems that serve it rather than about maps. The specification should state the feature classes to be captured, the attribute schema each must conform to, the coordinate reference system, the capture scale or accuracy, and the metadata standard the delivery must carry. Those choices determine whether the result can be joined to data the buyer already holds, and the commonest failure in this category is a technically excellent dataset that will not align with anything.
Where the data comes from is a distinct question from how it is structured. Digitising from existing records, field survey, remote sensing, and licensing an existing commercial or national dataset are all routes with different costs and different rights attached, and licensed base data frequently carries derived-data restrictions that limit what the buyer may publish afterwards. Public bodies increasingly require outputs they can release openly, which makes the licensing of any underlying base data a procurement decision rather than a technical one.
Systems requirements follow standards that exist for interoperability. Buyers specify service interfaces for viewing, querying and downloading spatial data, catalogue entries so the data can be discovered, and formats that are open and documented. Maintenance is the part most often omitted: spatial data decays as the world changes, so update cycles, change detection, version control and the retention of historical states need to be contracted, and address and property datasets in particular need a defined authoritative source rather than a one-off capture.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys gis & mapping in Kenya?
GlobalGov holds 11 gis & mapping records from 11 distinct buying organisations in Kenya. The most frequent publishers are Embu County Government (1 record); Kenya National Highway Authority (1 record); Kenya Power & Lighting Company (1 record); Kenya Railways (1 record); Kiambu County Government (1 record); Kwale County Government (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 55% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Embu County Government | 1 | 9.1% |
| Kenya National Highway Authority | 1 | 9.1% |
| Kenya Power & Lighting Company | 1 | 9.1% |
| Kenya Railways | 1 | 9.1% |
| Kiambu County Government | 1 | 9.1% |
| Kwale County Government | 1 | 9.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to gis & mapping tenders in Kenya?
Across the 9 Kenya gis & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 10 days. A quarter of them allowed 6 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 14. 6 of them (67%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are gis & mapping tenders published in Kenya?
Kenya published 2 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 6, spread across 10 separate months of activity since 14 February 2020. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 27 March 2026, 188 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Kenya gis & mapping records on this page come from?
These 11 records are collected from 2 official sources: the Kenya PPRA (10), the World Bank (1). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent GIS & Mapping tenders in Kenya
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical gis & mapping notice in Kenya is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Maintenance for Geospatial Tools, Digitization and Conversion of Legacy Geospatial Datasets, Supply and Delivery of Geospatial Tools, Treated Wooden Poles Spectrometer Analyzer and Incremental Borers
Provision of Licence Upgrade and Renewal, Annual Support and Maintenance Service for Geographic Information System (GIS)
Senior climate change adaptation technical assistant for Ministry of Environment,Climate Change and Forestry
Provision of Land Surveying and Other Related Services
Provision of Hydrogeophysical Survey Services for 4NO. Projects in BOMET and Kericho Counties.
Consultancy to Develop and Implement Groundwater Management Information System.
Supply and Delivery of Modern Sets of Survey Equipments and Hand Held GPS(S)
Provision Of Field Maps Mapping Tool
Request for Proposals Formanagement, Operation Andmaintenance of 23NO. Virtual Weighbridge Stations
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