A Dissertation Submitted to Mzumbe University in Partial Fulfilment of the
Requirement for Award of the Degree of Masters of Science in Procurement and
Supply Chain Management of Mzumbe University
This study was conducted at Tunduru District Council, in Ruvuma and the title was
“Assessment of the effectiveness of contract management in at LGA’s a case of
Tunduru District Council. The main objective of the study was to assess the
effectiveness of procurement contract management in Local Government Authorities.
Specific objectives of the study were analyzing how TDC manage contract variation
and or change in managing procurement contract at TDC, identifying if
documentation of contract is appropriate at TDC, analyzing how TDC manage the
contractual relationship in managing procurement contract and examining whether
TDC comply with terms and condition of the contract on managing procurement
contract. The researcher used a case study design, and judgemental sampling
technique to obtain a number of representatives from the population of 103, sample
size is 33. Data collected through questionnaire and interview, reliability test was
done by Cronbach Alpha test and validity test was through KMO. Data analysis
was done descriptively and inferential analysis while SPSS computer software used,
while multiple regression used for relationship establishment between variables. The
findings from the study revealed that contract management is effective, due to
variables in those four objective revealed that in LGA’s there are strongly manage
contractual variation and or change by valuation of variation, manage contractual
relationship by trusting and disclose of contractual information between parties of the
contract, documentation of contract is appropriate due to including priced bill of
quantity and or schedule of rates and there is a compliance with contractual terms
and conditions due to complying with quality terms and conditions and partially on
other variables.
Finally, the study recommends that rate and variation process to be done, training
and the use of PPA 2011 and PPR 2013, LGA’s learn from private sectors, use
standard documents in contract, increase budget for training in LGA’s, use of
standard tender documents includes all documents and terms and conditions in
contract management.