Sectors — Government & Public Institutions
Public money, spent on a bill nobody can break down
Electricity sits in the recurrent budget of every ministry, agency, authority and local government in Uganda. It is one of the few large lines that is paid in full each month and explained to nobody — not by facility, not by building, not by system. Metering makes it explainable, and an explainable cost is a manageable one.
- What is procured
- Metering, monitoring-platform access, periodic reporting and advisory review for the facilities you name.
- How it is scoped
- A site assessment surveys each facility and fixes every metering point in writing before anything is quoted.
- What is delivered
- D1–D7, set out in full further down this page.
- Basis of quotation
- Against the assessed scope, in the format your procurement process requires. No pricing is published on this site.
What an institution is accountable for
A public institution is answerable for three things at once, and an unmeasured electricity supply weakens all three.
Budget accountability. A vote is defended on the basis of what was consumed and why. Where consumption cannot be attributed to a facility or a function, an increase cannot be justified and a saving cannot be demonstrated. A measured baseline turns the estimate into a figure that survives review.
Duty of care. Public facilities carry people. Voltage instability, phase imbalance and overheating distribution equipment leave no trace on a monthly invoice; they are discovered when equipment fails, or when an incident forces the question. Continuous power-quality measurement moves that discovery earlier.
Integrity of supply. Where connections are numerous and informal, it is genuinely difficult to state what is drawing from the supply and under whose authority. Consumption analysis quantifies the unmetered load rather than leaving it a suspicion — and a measured discrepancy is something an institution can investigate against its own connection records.
Scope of supply
Set out as deliverables so it can be evaluated, scoped to your facilities and taken through procurement without translation. Quantities, tier selection and reporting frequency are determined by the site assessment and confirmed in the proposal.
- D1Site assessment and metering plan
- A survey of the electrical infrastructure at each facility in scope — incomers, distribution boards, standby supply and any informal connections — issued as a written report naming every proposed metering point and the reason for it.
- D2Supply and installation of metering
- Three-phase smart energy meters sized to the current rating of each circuit, with three current sensors per meter, and the gateway and communications required at each physical location. Installation is scheduled with the institution’s technical team.
- D3Platform access and user accounts
- Named accounts on the Orijtech Energy monitoring platform for facilities, finance and management users, with consumption and power-quality data available at each metered point.
- D4Consumption baseline report
- A documented baseline of measured consumption per facility and per metered point, against which any future efficiency measure, tariff change or budget provision can be assessed.
- D5Periodic energy reports
- Monthly or quarterly reports covering consumption by facility, time-of-use distribution, load comparison between periods, power-quality observations and abnormal-consumption findings, with recommendations.
- D6Advisory and management review
- Scheduled review sessions in which findings are presented to the accounting officer or management committee, and recommended actions are agreed and minuted.
- D7Handover documentation
- As-installed records for every metering point, device serial numbers, platform administration handover and user training for the institution’s technical staff.
No pricing is published on this site. A quotation is issued against the assessed scope for your facilities, in the format your procurement process requires.
Annex A
How a multi-site estate is handled
Most public institutions do not run one facility. They run a headquarters, regional or district offices, stores, and specialised sites — each with its own account, its own bill and its own local explanation for why the bill is what it is. The scope above is delivered across an estate on the following basis.
- A1
One consolidated view
Every metered facility on the same platform, so headquarters can see the estate without requesting a return from each site.
- A2
Comparison between facilities
Consumption normalised across sites, so an outlier is identified from the data rather than from a complaint.
- A3
Local accountability retained
Each facility manager sees their own site’s data, which is what makes a reduction target something a person can actually own.
- A4
Phased deployment
A pilot at the largest-consuming facilities establishes the baseline and the business case before the estate is committed.
- A5
Solar sized from the baseline
Public offices consume during working hours, which is when an array generates. Once a facility has a measured baseline, a capital submission for solar can state the displaced consumption it is based on and the period it was measured over — the part a technical evaluation committee is entitled to check. Solar project development.
Kampala Capital City Authority — USAFI Market
Three risks, none of them visible before measurement
At a public market that thousands of people move through every day, monitoring surfaced voltage instability, phase imbalance and unaccounted consumption. All three were identified and reported to KCCA before any of them became an incident.
Read the full case study“The monitoring revealed risks we were not aware of. For a public market with thousands of visitors every day, identifying those risks before an incident was exactly the outcome we needed.”
Voltage instability
Excursions outside safe operating range, logged with timestamps.
Phase imbalance
Uneven loading across the three-phase supply, an overheating and fire risk in a dense public space.
Unaccounted consumption
A persistent discrepancy between the incomers and the metered distribution — unmetered load, quantified and time-stamped for KCCA to reconcile against its own connection records.
Begin with an assessment, procure against a defined scope
The site assessment produces the metering plan and the baseline. Those become the scope document and the quotation, in the form your procurement and technical evaluation committees require.
Documents you can attach to a requisition
Tenders ask for different certificates and they ask for them in different forms. Name the ones your process requires and we will confirm in writing what we hold and how quickly we can return it. Tell us what the tender requires.
Supplier details, the full document set and the case-study one-pagers are published on the procurement page with no form in front of them.
- Send the requirement and we will respond against it
- What measurement found at KCCA and other named sites
- Supplier details and every document, ungated
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