FACTORS AFFECTING IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCUREMENT POLICES IN COUNTY GOVERNMENTS IN KENYA
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The study focused on establishing how staff training and ICT affect the implementation of procurement Policies in county government. The study objectives included: Establish how staff training affected the implementation of procurement policies in county government and determine how ICT affected implementation of procurement policies in county government. The study focused on county government. The researcher adopted a systematic random sampling design of the 47 county governments, where, the researcher picked the 4th county hence this amounted to 11 county governments, a total of 671 procurement officers in these counties, targeting 196 respondents. Primary data was collected using questionnaires. Pilot test was also carried out in Murang’a County before the actual data collection to ensure validity and reliability of the research instruments. Data was edited, coded and analysed by use of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS version 2.3) and presented through tables and graphs. Pearson’s correlations coefficient was run to examine the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The study revealed that ICT had a great effect on implementation of procurement policies. Staff training was identified to having a least significant effect in the implementation of procurement policies in county governments. The study recommended that County governments should train and develop their employees on a regular basis. It further recommended that county governments should automate their systems to the level of the latest technology in order to increase efficiency.
Key Words: Staff Training, Information Communication Technology, Procurement Policies
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