“Assessment of the level of compliance of tendering procedures of public procurement entities” Case study at Estate Management Department of the Ghana Health Service
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November, 2014
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Abstract
In 2003, the Government of Ghana put together the main Public Procurement Act
currently used in Ghana and enacted the Act to fight against and overcome shortcomings
inPublic Procurement process. The new structure was also intended to foster competition,
efficiency, transparency and accountability in the tendering Process of Public Entities.
However compliance by the entities has been the greatest challenge in the attainment of
the said objectives. The research therefore assessed the level of compliance of tendering
procedures of public procurement entities for works using National Competitive
Tendering at the Estate Management Department of the Ghana Health Service office in
Accra. Compliance/Performance measuring tool for assessing tendering procedures from
the invitation to tender to the award of contract for works under the National Competitive
Tendering was used with regards to the dictates of the PPA 663. The overall
compliance/performance of 78% was achieved at the Estate Management Department of
the Ghana Health Service which showed that compliance level obtained was good but
much work needs to be done to improve compliance of tendering procedures at the entity.
Explanatory research was used to provide a better understanding to the situation with
explanatory typologies method used to analyse and explained the indicative assessment
level of compliance of tendering procedures. To improve compliance and ensure smooth
implementation of the Act, the following, were recommended: The Public Procurement
Authority should partner with all Stakeholders to ensure that award of contracts are
published in newspapers of national circulation; all documents relating to the tendering
procedures should be recorded; Public Procurement Authority should adopt a compliance
assessment tool to measure compliance of entities; the Public Procurement Authority
should undertake vigorous information dissemination to all stakeholders and training of
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selected procurement staff as trainers and involving them in delivering training for
procurement entities.
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A thesis presented to the Department of Building Technology,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for a degree of Master
of Science in Procurement Management.
Keywords
Tendering, Procurement, Tender Document, Tender Evaluation