Public Procurement Management and Access to Government Procurement Opportunities(Agpo) Policy

Abstract

In every business the supply chain function is of major importance. The function ensures that the respective procurement achieves value for money for the organization.Therefore, supply chain function of any organization requires efficient management. Its neglects can lead to a disaster no matter how efficient other basic functions such as production and selling may be come out.Gogernment Ministries and Agencies on the other hand procure goods and services to enhance service delivery to the citizenry.The purpose of this research project was to find out effects of public procurement management policy on AGPO program uptake by women, youth and PWDs enterprises within government ministries in Kenya.The data was be collected from the all the government ministries. The main data collection instrument was questionnaires. Secondary data was also collected to complete study from the government website(www.treasury.go.ke).Data was collected from all the study units i.e government ministries as defined in the constitution of Kenya(2010). It was presented in form of descriptive statistics on thematic areas.The researcher faced some challenges especially in having the questionnaires filled due to the busy schedule of most government officers who were a target group in the study. The significance of the study was to enable policy makers within the government formulate intervention programmes as regards uptake of AGPO programme among the vulnerable groups.