FACTORS AFFECTING PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN TERTIARY TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTES IN MERU COUNTY, KENYA

Abstract

In today’s workplace, business pressures are ever increasing and organizations are now faced with persistent public outcry over poor procurement performance. Most of the public institutions have adopted procurement performance measurement initiative in order to realize efficiency in their operations. In line with current development in the world tertiary training institutions are faced with problems of poor service delivery, high cost of procurement, increased lead time and failure to comply with procurement legislation. Tertiary technical training institutions in Meru County have not been spared by these problems. The study main aim was to assess the enablers of procurement performance measurement with a focus on public tertiary technical training institutions in Meru County. Specifically, the study assessed how training, information communication technology, internal controls and ethics influences procurement performance measurement in the public technical training institutions. A Descriptive Research Design was used for the purpose of this study. The target population of the study was forty five (45) procurement practitioners drawn from various committees involved procurement process in the three technical tertiary training institutions in Meru County. A census study was conducted where all procurement practitioners were interviewed. The study concludes that training, ICT, internal controls and ethics are significant in measuring procurement performance measurement. The study recommends that management should prioritize procurement performance measurement and should adopt, own and communicate the strategy to the procurement staff: Enough resources should be provided for training procurement staff, effective integration of procurement function with ICT, strengthen internal control systems and enhance measures to curb unethical practices.