Assessing project procurement management practices, The Ministry of Energy; a case study of Rural Electrification/SHEP in Ghana
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2021-06-09
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Abstract
The purpose of this research is to assess project procurement management practices at
the Ministry of Energy. Self-help electrification projects (SHEP) were suspended in
about 50 communities in the Hohoe South and Kpedze areas because 50% of the
imported wooden poles were discovered to be inappropriate for electrification project.
This adversely impacted the project as well as the communities’ socio-economic growth
The objectives of this study are; to identify the project procurement management
practices carried out at the Ministry of Energy for rural electrification/SHEP project, to
examine the influencing factors for the choice of procurement management system
adopted by the Ministry of Energy for rural electrification/SHEP project, and, to identify
the effects of procurement management system on the outcome of the rural
electrification/SHEP project. A population of 78 professional procurement respondents
were reached across the country, through ‘convenience and purposive sampling’. Data
from a total of 63 questionnaires were received and collected out of the 78 respondents
constituting a response rate of 80.8%. This revealed that Open procedure also known as
the competitive procurement practice is the most commonly used procurement
management practiced under the SHEP, scoring an evident sky-high RII of 0.922. In
view of these findings, the following are recommended; quarterly auditing, monitoring
and evaluation of procurement management process to prevent corruption and promote
good governance, capacity building training for both junior and senior procurement
officers.
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A dissertation submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and
Management, College of Art and Built Environment in partial fulfilment of the
requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Project Management.
Keywords
An Evaluation, Project procurement management practices, The Ministry of Energy, Rural Electrification/SHEP, Ghana