Author: Ebenezer Essilfie-Baiden
Acting Director, Procurement and Supply Chain, Civil Serve, Ghana
Abstract
Public procurement is a sector that directly affects the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country cannot be overemphasised. In fact, according to the Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister for Finance 2011, Ghana’s public procurement represents 24 per cent of national imports and accounts for between 50-70 per cent of the national budget, excluding personnel emoluments, and represents about 14 per cent of GDP. The importance of such a sector in the national affairs makes a study of this nature very pertinent. The study set out to interview 200 respondents from four main departments. These were the Finance and Administration, Stores, Audit and Procurement departments. The recovery rate was 75%, indicating that a total of 150 questionnaires were returned. The analysis was done with the aid of the SPSS software and Microsoft Excel. Tables, graphs and pie chart picturesquely illustrated the analysis. The analysis covered the demographic information, familiarity with procurement, compliance with public procurement rules, monitoring or supervision of procurement activities, adherence to laid down practices in procurement procedures, association between monitoring of practitioners behaviour and compliance with procurement rules, organizational goal achievement and compliance with public procurement rules as well as challenges with compliance in supply chain or procurement. The analysis revealed that there is indeed relationship between organizational goal achievement and procurement rules, familiarity with procurement rules and compliance with those rules and monitoring of practitioners and compliance with procurement rules.
Keyword: Public Procurement, Procurement Cycle, Procurement Processes, Procurement Reform
