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    Assessment of contract administration practices of Hydropower Projects in Ethiopian Electric Power: A case study in Gibe III Hydro power Project.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-06) Lulseged, Abinet; Mohammod, Abdurezak(PhD)
    The purpose of this paper is to assess the contract administration practice of EEP in GIBE III Project. Questionnaires and Interview are primary data collection instruments which were distributed to the contract administration officers and the management members of EEP Gibe III Hydro Power Project equalling to 12 staffs and followed by descriptive and exploratory research design and Secondary data’s were collected from the reports and contract agreements from the Ethiopian Electric Power, Gibe III HPP office. SPSS 20 software was used for the analyses of data collected. The result of this project work indicates that, the project was not effective in schedule management, in giving contract administration training to the contract administration staffs and in the availability of resources, which finally leads the project for suspension of work backed by delay, unnecessary interest payment and claim issues. Besides, the major challenges of the project which hinders the contract administration practice are reworks due to errors during construction, shortage of resources, design change during the project execution time for the power intake structure, Poor schedule management, poor feasibility study, delay in payments for the completed activities, the unforeseen geological condition at the base of the main am foundation level which lead the project to invest more additional time and incur additional cost. Based on the findings the researcher recommended, giving training to the concerned personnel on a contract administration practices, securing enough resources before the start of the execution of the project, developing a master schedules and work breakdown structures by incorporating important dates and milestones in the contract, securing enough resources before the start of the project and lesson learning from the previous successfully completed project.