The effectiveness of procurement and contract management in local government authorities- lower levels: A survey study conducted at Babati and Simanjiro District Councils

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dc.contributor.authorNjelekela, Norbert Musa
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-02T07:10:40Z
dc.date.available2024-12-02T07:10:40Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Submitted at School of Business on Partial Fulfilment of the Award of the Masters of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (Msc-PSCM) of Mzumbe University, 2016
dc.description.abstractProcurement and contract management is a crucial aspect to government service delivery. Recently, this area has drawn a great attention from academicians and researchers. Despite the government effort to disburse a large amount of funds to the lower level government authorities, still there is substandard performance which has been reported by various stakeholders. The general objective of the study was assessing the effectiveness of procurement and contract management and implementation in the local government-lower level authorities. It sought to assess the role and capacity of actors in the lower levels, application of procurement laws, guidelines and regulations, independence of powers and political influence and the relevance of procurement methods which were used to answer the research questions. Cross-sectional survey research design was used to execute the study; targeted population was 186 respondents from wards, villages and committee members. Sample size of 127 respondents was drawn using slovin‟s formula and about 80 respondents were obtained for the study. Both questionnaires and interview guide were used as tools for data collection, Inferential and descriptive statistics methods including frequencies, percentages, levels of significance and correlations using SPSS as a tool for data analysis were used to give the findings. Representative reliability and construct validity were adopted for research quality assurance. The findings revealed that, there was high significance relationship between the variables (Sign-0.000) and variables relevance of procurement methods and independence of powers and political influence had positive contribution to the effectiveness of procurement and contract management in the lower level authorities (positive coefficients,0.353 and 0.229 with significance values of 0.001 and 0.018) the other two variables, role and capacity of actors and applicable procurement laws, guidelines and regulations had negative relationship(-0.106 and -2.40 with significance values of -.289 and 0.018).It was recommended that, the government should make effort to have a regulatory framework that will stipulate who (procurement personnel) and how procurement processes and contract management will be implemented.
dc.description.sponsorshipPrivate
dc.identifier.citationAPA
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1788
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMzumbe University
dc.subjectProcurement and Contract Management
dc.subjectLocal Government Authorities
dc.subjectAnnual Procurement Plan
dc.subjectBasic Education Committee
dc.subjectController and Auditor General
dc.subjectCountry Procurement Assessment Report
dc.subjectContractors Registration Board
dc.subjectDecentralization by Devolution
dc.subjectDistrict Agricultural Development Program
dc.subjectLocal Government Authority
dc.subjectNational Audit Office
dc.subjectPrimary Education Committee
dc.subjectPrimary Education Development Project
dc.subjectProcurement Management Unit
dc.subjectPublic Procurement Policy Division
dc.subjectPublic Procurement Regulatory Authority
dc.subjectPrimary School Committee
dc.subjectResource Based View
dc.subjectTanzania Social Action Fund
dc.subjectTransaction Cost Theory
dc.subjectWorld Bank
dc.subjectValue for Money
dc.subjectBabati District Council
dc.subjectSimanjiro District Council
dc.subjectProcurement Contract
dc.subjectProcurement Management and Service Delivery
dc.subjectInstitutional Arrangement
dc.subjectProcurement of Good
dc.subjectRecord Management System
dc.titleThe effectiveness of procurement and contract management in local government authorities- lower levels: A survey study conducted at Babati and Simanjiro District Councils
dc.typeThesis
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