In order to upgrade the Kiems kits to enable the voter registration functionality, Mr Chebukati said budgetary allocation would be required.
IEBC Corporate Communications Manager Tabitha Mutemi said the tender was nothing out of the ordinary.
The Kiems hardware needs regular updates.
The electoral agency wants an audit of its voter registration system and servers in what is the first step in actualising its plan to reuse 2017 materials in the 2022 polls.
In a tender document, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Wednesday said the audit will “entail preventive and curative maintenance for the server infrastructure” to check what needs to be corrected in its biometric voter registration (BVR) system.
