The government plans to open bidding for the servicing and management of leased medical equipment under the Managed Equipment Services.
Health CS Susan Nakhumicha said on Monday a rapid assessment conducted by the ministry revealed the need to look into the cost of the project and allow the best bidder to continue running the project.
She dismissed claims that governors are opposed to the project.
"The governors are not opposed to it. What they were asking for is that Kenyans must continue to get services that were being provided by these equipment and from our discussion we are all in agreement that the services need to continue,” she said.
"We have done a rapid assessment, we are going to advertise for those services so that we can get bidders and the best bidder will be given the opportunity to continue servicing and providing the services that were being availed by the MES," she added.
The Council of Governors and its partners convened a two-day consultative meeting between the national government and the county governments last week.
The aim was to review the intergovernmental relations and engagements between the two levels of government with a key focus on health and social protection.
The goal was to strengthen health sector specific intergovernmental collaboration and address emerging issues and enhance greater understanding of social protection by both levels of government.
Last month, the Senate called for a fresh audit into the status of the multibillion-shilling project.
Lawmakers want the Health Committee in a statement to the House to detail terms of the contracts the government signed on behalf of counties, stating the amount that was agreed upon and what was paid since inception of the project.
The Ministry of Health awarded leasing agreements to six foreign firms which supplied and have been servicing the specialised medical equipment at a cost of Sh63 billion.
The firms are General Electric from the US, Philips from the Netherlands, Bellco SGL from Italy, Esteem from India, Mindray Biomedical of China and Symex Europe GMBH from Germany.
