Assessment of contract administration practices of Hydropower Projects in Ethiopian Electric Power: A case study in Gibe III Hydro power Project.
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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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.
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Contract Administration, Effective contract administration, Hydro power project