The Digital Edge: Analyzing the Post-implementation Effect of E-Procurement on Procurement Cycle Time in Selected Ethiopian Federal institutions
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2026-06-02
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Addis Ababa University
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This study examines the effect of Electronic Government Procurement (eGp) module utilizationon procurement cycle time in selected federal institutions, mainly through the E-Planning, E-Tendering and E-Purchasing modules. It focuses on the after implementation stage of the E-Procurement system. The study covers up for the gaps in literature regarding E-Procurement post implementation effects. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed resulting in 84.8% response rate. The data was collected from active eGp users with roles as procurement officers, technical experts, procurement unit head and endorsing committee that consistently use the E-Procurement system. The study is supported by Resource Based View (RBV) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) theoretical frameworks. It tests the relationship between E-Procurement module utilization and procurement cycle. The findings (R2=0.614, P<0.001) have confirmed the E-Procurement module utilization of the three main modules E-Planning, E-Tendering and E-Purchasing has statistically significant positive effect and explains 61.4% of the variance on procurement cycle time reduction. Staff competency was found to have a partial mediation role (B=0.3129) whereas System challenges has a negative moderation role (B=-0.7563). The comparative analysis results between manual and digital procurement also showed procurement cycle time improvement in all three modules. E-Tendering (Z=-12.579, p<0.001) showed the most improvement followed by E-Planning (Z=-12.527, p<0.001). However, E-Purchasingresults (Z=-9.672, p<0.001) showed comparatively lower improvement indicating an underlying limitation. In Conclusion, the Electronic Government Procurement (eGp) system has digitalized traditional procurement methods to reduce the durations of procurement cycles. However, tofurther achieve the „the Digital Edge‟, improvements are needed on staff capacity building, strengthening infrastructure reliability, improving technical support and addressing module bottlenecks.
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“The Digital Edge: Analyzing the Post-Implementation Effect of E-Procurement on Procurement Cycle Time in Selected Ethiopian Federal Institutions