DETERMINANTS OF EFFECTIVE PROCUREMENT CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MOGOTIO SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

Abstract

Kenya public institutions lose hundreds of millions of tax payer's money through cancelled contracts, unfinished projects, poor service or product delivery, corruptions and extended contract periods each year. The study aimed at achieving the following objectives: To assess the influence of staff competency on effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya; To evaluate the effect of technology adoption on effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya, and; To examine whether budgetary allocations affect effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya. The study used three theories including the agency theory, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the resource based view. The study adopted a descriptive research design using quantitative approaches. The target population of the study was all principals and their deputies of public secondary schools in MogotioSub-Countywho total (52) individuals. Since the population was small a census design was used. Closed ended questionnaires constructed based on a five-point Likert scale were used as data collection instruments. A positive and strong correlation (R= 0.790) was found to exist between the variables. The variables of this study only accounted for 62.5% of the variability in effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya. The hypothesis was tested at a level of significance of 0.05 which led to the rejection of the hypotheses that stated there is no significant relationship between staff competency and effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya (H01) andthere is no significant relationship between and effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya (H03). This was due to p-values of less than 0.05 corresponding to the staff competency and budgetary allocations from the analysis of variance (ANOVA). On the other hand, the hypothesis that stated there is no significant relationship between technology adoption and effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya (H02) was accepted as the p-value of the ANOVA for technology adoption was more than 0.05. The study found that staff competency and budgetary allocation have a statistically significant influence on the effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya. Additionally, the study found that technology adoption has no statistically significant influence on the effective procurement contract administration in public secondary schools in MogotioSub-County, Kenya.The findings of this study are of significance to: management/Board of Management of public secondary schools; management/Board of Management of other schools, both public and private; National Government CDF board, and; researchers and scholars.