Compliance with Public Procurement Act and its Correlation with Procurement Performance of Senior High Schools in Ghana

Abstract

Globally, governments and other public-funded entities adopt processes to acquire goods, works, and services needed to implement public projects, this is commonly referred to as Public Procurement. In Ghana, the government has taken steps to reform the public procurement system to improve its performance in all government and other public-funded institutions. The purpose of this study was to assess compliance with the Public Procurement Act and its correlation with procurement performance of Senior High Schools in Ghana. Eighteen Senior High Schools (SHS) within the Ashanti Region were randomly selected, with bursars and procurement officers of each of these eighteen schools purposively sampled for data collection in addition to fifteen key suppliers to the various schools. Method was used to draw sample from the population. The study revealed that compliance with the management systems and contract management, individually, had a high correlation with SHS procurement performance. Information and communication and procurement processes, individually, had a moderate relationship with the level Senior High Schools’ procurement performance. Altogether, there was a high level of relationship between the level of compliance with the Public Procurement Act and the level of procurement performance of the various institutions. The compliance with management systems of procurement was the most significant impact on the procurement performance.

Keywords: Compliance; Procurement; Management Systems; Procurement Performance; Senior High Schools