Determinant Factors for Procurement Performance In Local Government Authorities

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.