Abstract:
Public procurement performance especially on whether the whole process of buying is
transparent or efficient has been measured in many aspects such as internal resources of a
procuring entity and many other attributes important to describe the extent of efficient use of
public funds. However, the performance from supply side perspectives especially how
suppliers’ related factors contribute to transparent procurement system is understudied.
Though, theoretical underpinnings affirm that all stakeholders such as buyers and suppliers
have significant contributions in procurement performance, views of the later are
underestimated in the academic literature. Thus, their awareness of procurement methods,
legal compliance and their knowledge and skills need to be re-evaluated to modernize the
mainstream literature.
This study adopts an embedded case study of Geita Town Council under two lenses. First,
suppliers were sent a structured questionnaire to fill. Second, 50 questionnaires were entered
in SPSS via a stepwise method to form a regression model that was used to analyse
relationships of variables. This was after data cleaning to make sure that all the questionnaires
are properly filled. ANNOVA and correlation tests of significance were used to draw
conclusion on the relationships of variables.
The Findings were certain and clear that all three study objectives have been found positive
and significant statistically on procurement performance as the dependent variable. This
implies that procurement performance in Tanzania public organizations is affected by
procurement methods, legal compliance, as well as employees’ qualifications and skills. In
that case, procurement performance is still a problem whereas severe measures must be
employed to assure the performance is well embraced in the government. Therefore, the
study recommends that the government must ensure that it enforce procurement performance
through the policy for it to be practical contrary to the current situation in government
procurement performance.
