DETERMINANTS OF PROCUREMENT PROCESS ENHANCEMENT IN STATE CORPORATIONS IN KENYA: A CASE OF KENYA POWER LIMITED
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The study sought to examine the determinants of procurement process enhancement in state corporations in Kenya, a case study of Kenya power Ltd as its general objective. The specific objectives of the study were:- to analyze the effect of ICT Integration on procurement process enhancement in state corporations in Kenya and to establish the effect of procurement training on procurement process enhancement in state corporations in Kenya. Kenya power Ltd was selected because as one of the state corporations’ government affected by non-compliance to public procurement regulations and hence a general decline in procurement performance. The study was conducted through a descriptive survey research design. The study involved 88 employees of Kenya Power ltd, and that it was guided by research questions based on the objectives aforementioned. Questionnaires were used as the main data collection. Descriptive statistics were aided by Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to compute percentages of respondents’ answers. It is notable that there existed strong positive relationship between the independent variables and dependent variable. The study indicated that ICT integration and procurement training were important factors that need to be enhanced to boost procurement process enhancement in the organization. Based on the study findings, the study concluded that procurement process enhancement in state corporations was affected by ICT integration followed by procurement training. The study was a milestone for further research in the field of procurement process enhancement in state corporations in Africa and particularly in Kenya. The findings demonstrated the important factors to procurement process enhancement to include; ICT integration and procurement training. The current study should therefore be expanded further in future in order to determine the effect of public procurement legal framework on effective implementation of procurement practices in the public sector. Existing literature indicated that as a future avenue of research, there is need to undertake similar research in other government institutions and public sector organizations in Kenya and other countries in order to establish whether the explored factors can be generalized to affect procurement performance in other government institutions.
Key Words: Procurement Training, ICT Integration, Procurement Process, Kenya Power
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