Compliance and Service Delivery Case Study of Local Government Procurement Units in Uganda

Abstract

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)