Assessing the Readiness of the Public Sector to Embrace Electronic Procurement in Uganda.
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2023-09-27
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Uganda Christian University
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E-procurement adoptions make purchasing activities are more effective in terms of both time and cost. In Uganda the adoption of e-procurement is at infant stage. The focus of this report is on adoption of e-procurement and value that can be achieved in public sector. The study was guided by three objectives namely, to examine the already established electronic procurement systems in the public sectors, to assess the electronic procurement readiness in public sectors of Uganda and to assess the human capital in regards to embracing e-procurement in public sectors of Uganda.
The study was guided by the UTAUT theory of adoption and several works by different scholars on adoption of E-procurement in state corporations. The research methodology used in the study include the data collection techniques which focus on questionnaire as primary data collection, and secondary data collection involved books, journal and internet search engine like Google scholar. Non probability sampling was used in this study.
Public sectors Limited has adopted the E-procurement system even though several procurement functions are still carried out in the traditional manual system. Some of the functions that are yet to be done through the e-procurement system include increased transparency, cost saving because of reduced paper work, easy payment, traceability of documents.
E-procurement is successfully implemented through business level of transaction i.e. organization to organization and not at individual level such as purchasing vehicles online. However, this progress cannot be ignored as it enlightens and exposes individual procurement experts to some practical knowledge on e-procurement such as the e-data interchange, e-sourcing, e-payment and risk management. At the country level they have made little progress towards full application of E-procurement and more efforts are required in order to fast track the process. Hence the government has to be more committed and needs to provide its full support.
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This is a dissertation