EXPERT OPINION: Attorney General’s position to Parliament on Kampala Kingdom Mall is unfounded in procurement and encourages unfairness to government suppliers In this article, Ms Mwesigye Samantha, LLB (MUK), LLM (Public Procurement Law and Policy (Nottingham)), a Public Procurement Specialist with 12 years of experience as an advocate in the Attorney General’s Chambers/ Ministry of Justice & Constitutional Affairs shares her opinion on the procurement impasse between the Parliament Commission and Meera Investments over the procurement of 300 parking spaces for MPs at the latter’s Kampala Kingdom building. The impasse has drawn in the Attorney General who has opined that the Parliamentary procurement team erred in awarding the deal to Meera Investments since their bid did not include the required 300 complimentary parking slots alongside the desired 9,030 square metres of office space, which made the bid non-responsive. In her expert opinion, the procurement law expert dismisses the Attorney General’s opinion saying that the Meera Investments bid was simply “non-conforming” but not “substantially unresponsive” and according to the law can be corrected since there was no “material deviation.” She also questions the requirement to provide 300 free parking spaces as unjust, arguing that the creators of the Procurement Act intended to achieve fairness, transparency and value for money in public procurements, but not for government to press its service providers to the wall.