Abstract:
The adoption of the electronic procurement system in public entities is still low especially in
developing countries like Tanzania regardless of the government efforts, directives, and regulations
which require every public entity to adopt e-procurement. This study therefore, assessed the factors
impacting e-procurement adoption among public institutions in Tanzania, Kigoma Municipal Council
being a case; with three specific objectives namely to determine the influence of organisational,
technological, and environmental characteristics in adoption of e-procurement. Mixed research
approach employing embedded design was used where 50 respondents were selected as samples.
Out of 50 distributed questionnaires; all were returned, and were used for data analysis. Both
quantitative and qualitative data analysis namely ordinal logistic regression and content strategies
were applied for data analysis. Three variables employed in this study seemed to have a strong
positive influence to the e-procurement adoption from correlation analysis, from regression analysis
the variables employed seem to have statistically significant while organisational characteristics
seem to be the most predictor on e-procurement adoption, whereas descriptive analysis show that
the majority agreed with all attributes of the variables that affecting the e-procurement adoption in
public procuring entities
Furthermore, findings indicated that organisational, technological, environmental characteristics
have a strong positive relationship on the overall adoption of E-procurement.
The study therefore recommends preparing a standardised training manual on e-procurement such
as provision of training of induction to every new employee. This will help to build awareness among
the employees and increase their efficiency. Also conducting regular in-house training to the staff
associating to their field. Also, they The government should ensure that public entities adopt
electronic procurement fully purposely for enjoying the benefits of e-procurement. In addition to
that, public institutions should ensure that suppliers are well aware about the system and get to use
it but also, they need to adopt it in their daily procurement practices
