Kenya’s National Lottery Board (NLB) has launched a tender for interested companies to operate the country’s still young national lottery.
A statement seen by Lottery Daily provided details of an Open International Tender, with the application window open until 8 May 2026. The regulator is open to the lottery being managed by either a sole, direct operator or by a consortium.
The NLB is specifically on the lookout for ‘respective global lottery operators, advisors and sector leaders’ with experience in lottery procurement, concession structuring, operations, and regulated gaming markets.
Interested applicants have been invited to download a complete set of tender documents via the NLB’s website or via a public procurement information portal.
Completed documents need to be sent to the NLB’s procurement team via the [email protected] website. The NLB has been explicit that it will not accept any tenders submitted after 8 May.
Submitted tenders need to be accompanied by a copy of a KES 2m (£11,467) tender security/bid bond issued by what the NLB describes as a ‘reputable commercial bank’ or by an insurance company procured by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority.
Lotteries and lottery-style games are nothing new in Kenya, with the Charity Sweepstakes being a popular game nationally for many years. A national lottery is a relatively new concept, however.
The NLB was created back in 2023 under the National Lottery Act, with the sole purpose of creating and managing a national lottery. Media discourse at the time highlighted the prospect of lottery funds being directed towards Kenya’s sporting scenes.
Three years down the line, the NLB is pressing ahead with its ambitions to find a private licence holder for a modern and ‘high-impact’ National Lottery.
The regulator further clarified that the lottery’s purpose would be to generate funds for good causes such as social development, sports, arts, culture and heritage, among other areas.
African lottery tenders are often lucrative business, and if the bidding contest for South Africa’s National Lottery last year is anything to go by, the Kenyan lottery tender could be a competitive one.