Abstract:
This study is conducted on Factors Affecting of Public Procurement performance in
Sheka Zone Finance Economic and Development Department. The main objective of this
study is to determine factors affecting public procurement performance in Sheka Zone
Finance economic and development department. The rationale of this study was to
facilitate the annual budget purchasing activities and in order to satisfy stakeholders,
serve the public in efficient and effective manner through understanding review of
literatures and theoretical aspects. The result of pilot survey and literature reviewed that
procurement planning, resource allocation, information technology and ethics are the
major factors that affect procurement process. To determine whether these factors really
affect procurement performance extensive study needed. Primary data was collected by
interviewing top managers and questionnaires was addressed by the respondents from
the public sectors, Procurement department, in two woreda and one town administration
under the Sheka zone public organizations. Purposive sampling technique was used to
select tow woreda and tow town from the zone; stratified sampling technique was used to
select user sectors and by simple random sampling technique 247 respondents of sample
size was determined. Data were analyzed both descriptive analysis and inferential
analysis by using statistical package for social science (spss 20 version). The findings
indicate that, there exists linear and positive significant relationship between
independent variables and dependent variable. The independent variables have
significant effect on public procurement performance with 76.2 percent.
Recommendations to public financial organization that relesse funds on a time.
Employees update thier understanding of IT usage rate; improve professional ethics of
honesty, accountability, and transparency, participating in provided training, customers
identify the need on a time and suggestions for other researchers study should be on 23.8
percent countered factors, mainly on lengthy of prcuement procee and contract
management.
