A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the
Award of Master of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management
(Msc. PCM) of Mzumbe University.
The study was conducted at Tanzania National Roads Agency on the effectiveness of
contract management. The problem with contract management featured for quite some
years that, most of the public procurement contracts have not been able to meet the
intended strategic objective expressed in the contract. This is to say that a considerable
number of procuring entities has not been able to execute contract management
effectively and efficiently which results into failure to meet expected objectives from the
contract.
The general objective of the study was to identify the factors leading to poor contract
management in public procurement works towards value for money in Tanzania.
Specific objectives included: to determine the factors affecting management of contracts
in public procurement for works, to study the governing contract management practice
in public procurement works, to explore the understanding of the Tanzania procurement
laws in implementation of contract management to achieve value for money for socialeconomical
and political development, to show the importance of legal professionals
towards effective contract management in public procurement for works.
The study involved the sample of 45 employees of TANROADS involving respondents
from Engineering department, Legal department, Procurement Management Unit and
Tender Board. Qualitative approach was used during the study and in some cases
quantitative approach was used by computation of frequency and percentages and the
use of tabulations. A case study design was used during the study and TANROADS was
used as a case study. The research methods and instrumentation that were used to collect
data included the use of questionnaire, interview, documentary review and observations.
The data analysis procedure that was used in this study was through content analysis and
calculation of frequencies and percentages.
The main findings of the research reveal that, contract management stage is deemed to
be as the separate process to procurement whereby procurement specialists at
TANROADS do not take part to monitor contract implementation, procurement
functions are headed by the non procurement professional which implies that, most of