Public Procurement Tendering, Board Management Practices, Stakeholder Engagement and Performance of Junior Secondary School Classroom Construction Projects in the Lake Basin Economic Block, Kenya

Junior secondary school expansion under Kenya’s competency-based education reforms has intensified the need for timely, economical and quality construction of classrooms and related learning facilities. This paper examines how public procurement tendering, Board of Management (BOM) practices and stakeholder engagement interact to influence the performance of junior secondary school classroom construction projects in the Lake Basin Economic Block (LREB). The paper is grounded in the research problem, objectives, hypotheses and empirical literature contained in the supplied manuscript, while reorganising and paraphrasing the material into a journal-oriented structure. The source manuscript reports a descriptive survey approach and describes questionnaire-based evidence concerning stakeholder participation and project performance; it also reports a positive relationship between stakeholder involvement and project accomplishment. Because the supplied manuscript does not contain a complete set of project-level regression tables, coefficients, reliability statistics or inferential results for all four hypotheses, this paper does not invent numerical results. Instead, it presents the reported evidence, develops an analytically coherent framework, and identifies the statistical tests that should be reported once the underlying dataset is available.
The analysis argues that tendering is not merely an administrative purchasing activity. Its effects on project performance depend on the quality of procurement planning, competition, specification, evaluation, contract award, contract management and payment processes. BOM practices can translate formal procurement requirements into effective project governance, while stakeholder engagement can improve needs identification, communication, monitoring, accountability and acceptance. The paper therefore proposes an integrated procurement-governance-stakeholder model in which procurement quality provides the foundation, BOM practices provide a governance mechanism, and stakeholder engagement strengthens implementation conditions. The discussion highlights transparency, capacity building, digital procurement, timely financing, contractor capability, monitoring and community oversight as practical levers for improving classroom construction outcomes across the LREB.

public procurement, tendering process, Board of Management, stakeholder engagement, project performance, junior secondary schools, Lake Basin Economic Block, Kenya

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