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This study aimed at assessing the Causes of Corruption in Construction Public
Procurement in Tanzania where by Manyara region was taken as the case study.
Specifically, the study aimed; to examine the causes of corruption in Construction Public
Procurement; to assess the construction public procurement process and the main types
of corruption in each stage; to identify the main causes of corruption and to suggest
measures of eradicating corruption in the construction public procurement in Manyara
region.
The study employed a case study design where by 140 respondents were purposively
selected among experts in construction professionals such as, consultants, architects,
quantity surveyors, engineers, and contractors. Simple random sampling was used to
select public officials from Manyara region. The data were collected by using
questionnaires, interviews and documentary review. Both qualitative and quantitative
data were analyzed using SPSS software. However, descriptive statistical methods such
as averages, frequencies, charts, tables, graphs and percentages were used to analyse and
present the findings.
The findings revealed that in all stages of procurement, corruption takes place including
specification of the tender, the bidding process, the selection stage, the delivery stage
and even at the evaluation stage, and the main causes of corruption are lack of
transparency, bureaucracy, lack of legal framework, behaviour aspects of some
unfaithful procurements officials, discretion, lack of accountability and even budgeting
problems in the said area. The study recommends that there should be Compliance with
Legislative Obligations and Public Policies, Avoiding conflicts of Interest, Use of an
appropriately competitive process, Security and Confidentiality, Consistency and
Transparency of procurement Process and even Fairness and Impartiality. These issues
will result in a decrease or elimination of corruption practices among officials in
constructions industry.
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