Assessment of Sustainable Public Procurement Practices in Ethiopian Public Procurement and Property Disposal Services and Public Procurement and Property Administration Agency
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The objective of this study was to assess the practices of Sustainable Public Procurement in two
public procurement organizations: Public Procurement and Property Disposable services, and
Public Procurement and Property Administration Agency. The research used descriptive and
explanatory types of research design, and also used the quantitative and qualitative approach. The
target populations were employees who are involved in procurement, contracting team, Property
administration team, Market research and valuation team of the two organizations and their total
number were 81. Primary data, through the use of questionnaire and semi structured interview
were used and secondary data such as; Public procurement proclamations, directives and various
internal documents, books, journals were reviewed. The collected data, from the questionnaire,
was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics by aid of Statistical Package for Social
Science version 20. The major finding of the study indicates that the practice of sustainable public
procurement in the two public procurement organizations, is in its infancy stages. Very few
variables of the sustainability considerations were incorporated in their public procurement
proclamation, directives, working manuals, framework agreement, and General and Special
Conditions of contract and also very few variables of the sustainability considerations were
practiced in the day to day procurement activities by the procurement professionals. Among the
three Sustainable Public Procurement dimensions; environmental and social sustainability
considerations were almost absent in their policy day to day procurement practices. In additions,
the non-inclusion of majority of the sustainability considerations, as a policy or in their day to
day procurement activities, has potentially bring undesirable consequences in to the environment,
and exacerbated the social and economic aspects of Sustainable Public Procurement. The
correlation result indicated that there were positive relationship between all of independent
variables (Level of knowledge on Sustainable Public Procurement, Adequacy of training on
Sustainable Public Procurement, Various challenges) and the dependent variable (Practices of
Sustainable Public Procurement).The researcher recommends that, initiative has to be started on
the formulation of sustainable public procurement policy and national implementation strategy,
by Public Procurement and Property Disposable services, and Public Procurement and Property
Administration Agency and in consultation with responsible stakeholders that translates how
economic, environmental and social sustainability considerations need to be addressed through
public procurement. In additions, a wider procurement reform will be required, by the two public
procurement organization, considering sustainability at the different stages of the procurement
cycles. Besides that, education and training on sustainable public procurement at the individual
procurement professional level need to be provided to increase knowledge base for implementing
sustainable procurement. With this problem, the researcher recommend further study to be carried
out on the way forward on how the country adopt and implement the sustainability considerations
in its the public procurement.
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Sustainable, Procurement, Economic, Environmental, Social