Scale

Business around the world is conducted through procurement, the act of formally obtaining goods or services. Efforts by MSMEs to participate in formal procurement have been hampered by limited information about upcoming tenders; time constraints in preparing bids; not getting feedback after evaluation to know what went wrong in failed bids; finding tender procedures too complex, and lacking tendering skills in general. These results in poor quality bid submissions hence very few MSMEs winning.

Scale is a simple-to-use platform that lets SMEs prepare bids digitally, saving them money, time & enabling them to take advantage of more opportunities. This is how it works: Ensuring that MSMEs are procurement ready for any opportunity that comes their. Providing SME with a process to guide them throughout their bid preparation to ensure their bids are accurate & consistent. End-to-end digitization of the bid preparation process making it easier to apply for more opportunities.

Through our partnership with the National Treasury in Kenya, we are starting by onboarding the over 114,000 certified disadvantaged businesses (48,000 Women, 61,000 youth and 5,000 PWD) owned. We’ve worked with these businesses over the past 3 years to understand their needs using a process called Human Centred Design (HCD) (in conjunction with IDEO.org).