(International Public Procurement conference, 2007) Mbabazi, Tadeo; Karuhanga, Bernadette; Mukokoma, Maurice
This study assessed level of compliance to the procurement law, and
how it affects road works delivery cost, time, and quality.
The World Bank estimates that 10-15 percent (US$ 100 million) of
the US $700 Ugandan government channels through the public
procurement system, gets wasted due to failure to impose sanctions
for violations of the procurement rules. The National Public
Procurement Integrity Baseline Survey (2006) estimates an 18 – 24
billion dollars budget loss due to procurement related fraud at LG.
Reports by the inspector general of government, and the auditor
general for 2007 and 2008 give prominent cases of procurement
related fraud. It is these evidences that prompted the researchers to
conduct this study.
A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was
employed to collect and analyze the data. Various samples were
created using Morgan and Kraije (1970) system.
The findings portray a moderate level (70%) of compliance to the
law. And a weak relationship between compliance and timeliness (r
= .13, p = .57), cost (r = .38, p .63), and quality (r = .18, p = .49)
