| dc.description.abstract | World Bank economic surveys have indicated that Kenya spends heavily on public
procurement with losses attributed to poor procurement regulations implementation being
approximated at 20% per year. According to PPOA (2015) annual report, poor
procurement practices like non-compliance to PPDA regulations have been identified as a
challenge to the procurement process. This study sought to establish the determinants of
implementation of preference and reservation procurement policy among the professional
regulatory bodies in Kenya. The objectives guiding the study were: to examine the effect
of information Communication and Technology (ICT) on implementation of preference
and reservation policy in the public sector in Kenya, to evaluate effect of procurement
staff professionalism on implementation of preference and reservation policy in the public
sector in Kenya, to evaluate the effects of organizational culture on implementation of
Preference and Reservation policy in the public sector in Kenya and to establish the effect
of legislative framework on implementation of preference and reservation policy in the
public sector in Kenya. The study was informed by the following theories: Institutional
Theory, Public Interest Theories of Regulation, Resource Based Theory and Social–
Economic Theory. The study used adescriptive survey as the study research design. The
target population comprised of 116 managers drawn from the following departments in
the 29 professional societies operating in Kenya; ICT department, Human Resource
department, procurement department and finance department. A census was conducted on
all the 116 respondents. The study used descriptive statistics such frequency distributions,
percentages, frequency tables and pie charts to summarize and relate variables obtained
from the administered questionnaires and inferential statistics of correlation and
regression to show the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The
results of the study showed that Information Communication and Technology,
procurement staff professionalism, organizational culture and legislative framework
positively and significantly influenced implementation of preference and reservation
procurement policy in the professional regulatory bodies in Kenya. the study recommends
that for the purpose of improving implementation of preference and reservation
procurement policy, professional regulatory bodies in Kenya should focus on various
aspects of ICT such as low cost of setting up the ICT platform, compatibility of ICT
infrastructure, availability of information on IT platforms, accessibility of information
using online platforms, low cost of managing the ICT platforms and use of emails for
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procurement activities. The study also recommends that in order to improve
implementation of preference and reservation procurement policy, professional regulatory
bodies in Kenya should pay attention to indicators of procurement staff professionalism
such as professional competency, procurement staff skills, procurement staff integrity,
procurement staff code of conduct and procurement staff knowledge on procurement
regulation. | en_US |
