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Today all over the world the governments pays much attention to procurement to the
extent of establishing the procurement department to take charge of procurement
activities. In Tanzania the procurement departments are not effective. Hence this
intended to explore the challenges facing the procurement department in the working
organization. The study intended to answer the question ‘what are the challenges facing
the procurement department at MOI?’
The literature review was carried out which covered the conceptual definitions,
theoretical analysis, empirical analysis and analytical framework of the study.
Through the literature review the knowledge gap on challenges facing the
procurement department in autonomous organization was identified.
The study was descriptive and interpretive applying a case study strategy. The Case
study strategy allowed collection of data using more than one method. The collected
data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The analysis was mainly descriptive,
involving the computation of frequencies, percentages and the results are presented
in the form of tables.
Throughout the study it has been noted that, the procurement department faces many
challenges emanating from the government side, the department itself and the
individuals employees. The challenges include poor planning, corruption, low
knowledge on laws and regulations and adequate resources.
The study concludes that, despite the challenges the procurement department is
facing, it will remains to be the most important entity in the organization which
needs to be paid much attention. It has been noted that MOI has procurement unit
which in one way or another does not perform well due to challenges. Finally it was
recommended that the government should provide much support to the procurement
department including providing training on procurement planning skills. |
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