dc.description.abstract | Public procurement has had considerable focus on the value for money. Framework
agreements is one of the procurement strategies that have been adopted in the recent
past whose major benefit has been significant savings in procurement time, costs and
other resources. As such, the purpose of this study was to establish the effect of
selected factors on the adoption of framework agreements by National Irrigation
Board (NIB). Specifically, the study sought to ascertain whether NIB adopts
framework agreements in its procurement processes and establish the effect of
legislative provision, procuring entity’s capacity, nature of procurement, pricing and
urgency of procurement needs. The study employed case study research design and
targeted all the 43 middle level and senior level managers in the five departments at
NIB. The data used in this study was obtained through questionnaires which had
closed-ended questions. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics,
correlation and regression analysis. The findings of the study were considered
important in formulating measures aimed at adoption of framework agreements in
attempt to enhance procurement efficiency at NIB. The study findings revealed that
framework agreements were not frequently adopted by NIB as indicated by 64% of
the respondents. The study found out through correlation analysis that the selected
factors; urgency of procurement needs (r=0.855), procuring entity’s capacity
(r=0.855), nature of procurement (r=0.913), legislative provision (r=0.925) and
pricing (r=0.930), had a strong positive relationship with the adoption of framework
agreements. The study further established, through regression analysis, that urgency
of procurement needs has the most significant effect on the adoption of framework
agreements with its unit increase resulting in a 6.412 increase in adoption of
framework agreements. In addition, the study established that, procuring entity’s
capacity, nature of procurement, legislative provision and pricing, also affect the
adoption of framework agreements with unit increases resulting in 4.249, 3.748, 3.500
and 0.936 respectively. The study concluded that the five selected factors affected the
adoption of framework agreements by NIB and their effect was about 94.6%. The
study recommends enhanced sensitization and training on the framework agreements
to increase its adoption as an allowable and strategic procurement method for
achieving procurement efficiency, careful preparation of pricing structure in
framework agreements to ensure successful management and execution of the
resulting contracts and best value for money and proper determination of entities’
procurement requirements and environment that suit the adoption of framework
agreements to ensure desired procurement objectives are met. | en_US |