Abstract:
The purpose of the study is assess the effect of procurement risk management practices in the
procurement performance at RUWASA. To realize the purpose, the specific objectives were:-
to determine the effect of procurement risk identification on procurement performance at
RUWASA; to find out the effect of procurement risk monitoring practices on procurement
performance at RUWASA and to determine the effect of procurement risk mitigation practices
on procurement performance at RUWASA. The study employed a mixed-quantitative and
qualitative research design in which both primary and secondary data was collected via
interview, questionnaires and documentary review. The pragmatism research paradigm which
upholds the use of different approaches to understand a problem was adopted. The purposive
sampling techniques was used to collect the data. The entire population of 70 respondents was
studied through census inquiry. The collected data was analyzed through the descriptive
statistics, factor analysis, content analysis and regression. In the first objective, the study
revealed that procurement risk identification practice was found to have a positive effects on the
procurement performance. In the second objective, the study revealed that effective
procurement risk mitigation practice lead to effective and efficient procurement performance. In
the last objective, the study noted that procurement risk monitoring has a positive effect on
procurement performance. The study recommends that procurement management team need
to consider these risks when intending to increase performance of procurement functions within
the organization. Failure to identify these risks earlier reduces procurement performance in
terms of delay in delivery and completion of projects; obtain goods, works and services of poor
quality, cost overruns and customer dissatisfactions.
