Compliance With The Public Procurement Disposal Of Public Assets Act. Acase Study Of National Social Security Fund (Nssf)Uganda

ABSTACT

The study focused on compliance with the procurement procedures and public sector

performance. The study was initiated as a result of poor accountability, lack of value for

money and poor quality management in the public sector despite the availability of

procurement procedures. The researcher used the following objectives to guide the study: to

establish the benefits of compliance with the procurement procedures, to identify the factors

affecting the compliance with the procurement procedures and to investigate the relationship

between compliance with the procurement procedures and public sector performance.

The methodology used in this study was literature review because the research derived all

findings basing on the existing literature of different scholars. The findings were presented

according to the objectives stated above.

Key findings were that benefits of compliance with the procurement procedures are: cost

reductions, quality management, quality purchase, fulfillment of purchasing objectives and

factors affecting compliance with the procurement procedures are political influence, lack of

professionalism, lack of ethical codes of conduct, and the complexity of the procurement

procedures. The study established that there is a positive relationship between compliance

with procurement procedures and public sector performance.

Basing on the findings the researcher suggested the following recommendations: that there is

no need to maintain and comply with the procurement procedures in order to yield benefits,

Increase the use of e-procurement so as to minimize costs like postage cost to suppliers,

minimize corruption and fraud in the public sector by strict adherence to procurement

procedures so as to enjoy the benefit that accrue.