Assessing Challenges of Public Procurement in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of changes of public procurement in Oromia regional state. The procurement functions are the business of all public sectors of the Region State. Accordingly the study assess the current workforce, practice and challenge of public procurement of Oromia regional state

Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. Structured Questionnaire is employed to collect data. Both random and purposive sampling is used. The study used five point Likert scale to collect data. Moreover seventy nine questionnaires were distributed and 64 was correctly filled and returned.  

This study critically assess factors that affects public procurement in Oromia regional state and the current practice of public procurement. It addressed Procurement system of Oromia regional state is suffered from poor skilled workforce, management mal practices, that opened the room to maintain inefficient procurement system. Accordingly the study revealed that the current public procurement practice of Oromia regional state is characterized by lack of proper skilled, experienced and capability, poor planning, inadequate management of procurement.

To avoid lack of skilled and experienced manpower on the area of procurement in the region, developing skill and knowledge of public procurement professional through either short term or long term training is recommended. Moreover the sector has to work in close collaboration with different local and international institutions aimed at building the capacity of public procurement professionals is another suggestion given by the researcher.