Abstract:
The main objective of this study is to determine Factors affecting the effectiveness of
government procurement in Tanzania. The case of Councils in the Arusha region. The rationale
of this study was to facilitate the annual budget purchasing activities and to satisfy stakeholders,
serve the public in an efficient and effective manner through an understanding review of pieces
of literature and theoretical aspects. The result of the pilot survey and literature reviewed is that
procurement planning, resource allocation, information technology, and ethics are the major
factors that affect the procurement process. To determine whether these factors affect
procurement performance extensive study is needed. Primary data was collected by
interviewing top managers and questionnaires were addressed by the respondents from the
public sector and procurement department. A purposive sampling technique was used; a
stratified sampling technique was used to select user sectors and by simple random sampling
technique 247 respondents sample size was determined. Data were analyzed in both
descriptive analysis and inferential analysis by using a statistical package for social science
(SPSS 20 version). The findings indicate that there exists a linear and positive significant
relationship between independent variables and dependent variables. The independent
variables have a significant effect on public procurement performance with 76.2 percent.
Recommendations to public financial organizations that release funds on time. Employees
update their understanding of IT usage rate; improve professional ethics of honesty,
accountability, and transparency, participating in provided training, customers identify the need
on a time and suggestions for other researchers study should be on 23.8 percent countered
factors, mainly on lengthy of the procurement process and contract manage
