E-Procurement Implementation And Performance Of County Governments In Kenya

Abstract

This research aimed at verifying the influence of E-procurement implementation on the performance of County Administrations in Kenya and the challenges faced by Kenyan County Governments in E-procurement implementation on the performance of County Governments in Kenya. This research employed a descriptive research design. The population of this research included procurement administrators in all the forty seven counties in Kenya. Given that the target population was not too large, a census study was done. Primary data was obtained via semi-structured questionnaires. Data analysis was byway of descriptive statistics, correlation as well as regression analysis. The study found out that E-procurement enhances the performance. The independent variables examined describe a considerable 79% of the change in performance of County Governments since the adoption of E-procurement while other aspects as well asrandom variations not explored comprise 21%. The study findings also indicate that E-procurement enhances organizational performance to a great extent. This implies that there existed a positive link between E-procurement and entity’s performance. The research aimed to find out the link between E-procurement and County governments performance. Based on the findings in relation to specific objective, the study concludes that E-procurement positively enhances County government performance. The study recommends that E-procurement adoption should be supported with resources as well as specialized competencies. The study recommends that there should be proper coordination of change management apparatus and training plans. Organizations should also set up mechanisms, practices, and processes that support the execution of e-procurement. Digital procurement systems should ensure there is a workflow mechanism that’s incorporated into an electronic procurement application to facilitate the requisition to payment as well as e-catalogue application that outlines a vendor’s goods and service on sale and their prices on the web.The system should also incorporate key components such as participants in a transaction, harmonization, confidentiality and internet bandwidth and data integrity if tapping into the full benefits of electronic procurement is to be realized. It’s essential that internal system users adhere to compliance for electronic procurement to produce cost and efficiency benefits, and as such, internal client satisfaction ought to be a major issue in the creation, usage as well as setting up of such a system. Compliance with e- procurement should be guided by the overall attitude of the county in general to either the procedure of digital redesign or the inclination toward reaping the supposed gains in electronic procurement. The study’s limitations included limited time set aside for the research and the limited scope of study. Data collection was a challenge due to the respondent’s busy schedules. The intervieweesought were unwilling to providematerialbeing afraid ofthe fact that the material provided would be utilized to coerce them or publish a bad picture of them. The study suggests further survey on study E-procurement and performance in other industries.