Applicability of Competition law and Principles in Ethiopia's Public Procurement Law and Practice
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2021-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The objective of PP is value for money which is procuring quality goods and services at a lower
price at the right time. Thus, this study aims to examine the competitiveness of Ethiopian public
procurement and contribute some recommendations. The study uses the ideal Perfectly
Competitive Market structure of Economics and International Competition and Public
Procurement Models to scrutinize the applicability of competition principles and laws on the
Ethiopian public procurement; particularly, focused on Bidders' entry, number of Bidders,
dominance, collusion, and the organization of authorities. Moreover, the findings reveal a lack of
awareness of PP and competition principles and laws, even though Ethiopia developed standard
competition and procurement laws from effective International Models. Furthermore, it exposes
the preparations of ambiguous specifications, inappropriate selection of pp method, bid-rigging,
lengthy PP, corruption, weak institutional framework, lack of coordination between relevant public
bodies, dependency of the authorities or political influence, and other challenges and anticompetition
practices. Furthermore, it is recommended; creating competitive Public Procurement
by widening the participation of bidders, implementation of performance audit, awareness of bidrigging
indications, Coordination, and cooperation between relevant public authorities, enhancing
workforce capacity, improving the salary scale, developing independence, political, and budgetary
free authority, developing a fast procurement payment system and including E-procurement,
Facilitation of self-regulation mechanism, the participation of different stakeholders including
media and other relevant recommendations.