Public Procurement Practice in Ethiopia: The Case of Federal Ministry of Education
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main aim of this research was to provide an examination of the Ethiopian public
procurement practice with reference to FDRE, Ministry of Education. It was conducted to find
out the problems of inefficiency and delayed procurement practice in three areas of procurement
(the procurement records, the procurement process and the work force of procurement. The
research methodology employed was descriptive survey. In this study public body head,
endorsing committee, Procurement and Property Administration Directorate, procurement head
and procurement experts were involved as source of primary data in addition to document
review. The data were presented and analyzed qualitatively by the use of qualitative content
analysis. the major findings of the study indicates that the Ministry of Education public
procurement practices is inefficient and delayed because of lengthy process, highly bureaucratic,
lacks transparent, responsibility, accountability and skillful experts, poor record management
and not give due attention by the heads of the public body and other concerned parties. Based on
the findings the researcher recommended the procurement practice should be improved in terms
of having, sustaining , training the procurement officers and also modernizing the process and
the procurement practices and the public body should provide proper attention and follow up
for the unit.
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Public Procurement, Procurement Practice