Tendering Confidentiality and Procurement Performance at Kenya Electricity Generating Company
- December 14, 2021
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue XI, November 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186
Tendering Confidentiality and Procurement Performance at Kenya Electricity Generating Company
John Gichuki Kahare; Dennis Chege
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Abstract: Procurement challenges including loss of public funds have become very common in the public sector where the public civil servants have colluded with suppliers of goods and works often to misappropriate public money. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence that ethics has on the procurement performance of State Corporation in Kenya. The study specifically sought to establish the influence that tendering confidentiality has on procurement performance at Kenya Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen).The population of the study included 381 procurement staff in Kenya in the two levels of management (middle and operational level of management). The probabilistic sampling method through the Taro Yamane formula was used to yield a sample of 195. The study was descriptive, data was collected through a semi-structured questionnaire with Likert questions. Data was collected specifically in the headquarters in Nairobi. Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics (frequency, standard deviation, mean, and percentages) and inferential analysis through the ordinary least square method. The study found that tendering confidentiality influenced procurement performance (F= 54.416, p<0.001). The study also concluded that tendering confidentiality had had a positive and significant influence on procurement performance at KenGen. The study recommended for protection of intellectual property during tendering, the composition of tendering committee by members who are independent and no-partisan, and people of integrity while safeguarding information regarding the tendering documents and processes away from tenderers.
Key Words: Confidentiality, Tendering, Procurement, Ethics, Performance
I. INTRODUCTION
In the 21st Century, stakeholders in both private and public institutions have been intensively pressured forthe more accountable and ethical conduct of business. Specifically, procurement officers have been put to task to ensure organizations receive value for their money through supplied goods and works by contractors. Agency problem has been a concern for the shareholders who require their servants to act in the best interest of the company to realize increment in the value of the organizations. However, this has always not been the case, employees have in many instances conducted selfish interests that have led to the loss of money in both public sectors.
