The Effects of e-procurement on public procurement performance during Covid 19: a case study of Chitungwiza municipality (2020-2022)
- Author
- Vurumu, Natasha
- Title
- The Effects of e-procurement on public procurement performance during Covid 19: a case study of Chitungwiza municipality (2020-2022)
- Abstract
- The purpose of the study was to find the effects of e-procurement on public procurement performance during covid-19 using Chitungwiza Municipality as a case study. This study was guided by three objectives explicitly: to determine which procurement methods that are currently being employed at Chitungwiza Municipality; to identify the challenges affecting e-procurement on the public procurement performance during covid 19 and to analyze the effects of e-procurement on the public procurement performance. To satisfy the objectives, 20 respondents was used as the study population. The study was motivated by the bottlenecks in the supply chain of the public sector. Questionnaires and interviews were used to gathering information. The questionnaires were distributed using Google forms through emails at Chitungwiza Municipality. The data was analyzed using SPSS: pie charts, bar graphs and also tables were used to analyze data. The main findings were that increased transparency, reduction of costs were the effects of e-procurement on public procurement performance during covid 19 and that electronic procurement is the most effective strategy to use during covid-19 period. The study recommends that public entities should move from traditional methods of procurement to modern day methods as like e-procurement and also the adaptive strategies should be used to changes in business environment rather that to be rigid to traditional strategies.
- Date
- November 2023
- Publisher
- BUSE
- Keywords
- Public procurement
- Effects of e-procurement
- Covid-19
- Supervisor
- Mr. Mandaza
- Item sets
- Department of Economics
- Media
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