Jaswinder Bedi: How we won police uniform tender
Jaswinder Bedi, Managing Director of Bedi Investments Limited, has addressed the controversy surrounding the tender for new Kenyan police uniforms, explaining the procurement was a framework arrangement, not a single Sh2.8 billion contract. He emphasized his company's five-decade history of supplying uniforms to the Kenyan government, including the police.
Why it matters
This article provides the company's perspective on a significant government tender that has sparked public and political controversy, impacting transparency concerns and public trust in procurement processes in Kenya.
Bedi Investments Limited Managing Director, Jaswinder Bedi, and his management team display newly sewed police uniforms at the plant in Nakuru City on September 4, 2026.
The new general-duty police uniform was meant to be one of the visible symbols of a broader attempt to reform the National Police Service.
Instead, within days of its unveiling, it became the subject of a political and public storm over who won the tender, how much the uniforms will cost taxpayers and whether the change was necessary in the first place.
At the centre of the controversy is Nakuru-based textile manufacturer Bedi Investments Limited, the company the National Police Service says was awarded the contract to manufacture and stitch the new uniforms.
Bedi Investments Limited Managing Director Jaswinder Bedi displays police uniforms made from his plant in Nakuru City on September 3, 2026.
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