How the Ghanaian Public Procurement Law Ensures Transparency: The Reminisces from an Empirical Research

Abstract

Templates populated with public procurement transparency indicators were used to collect data to analyse the contents of the Public Procurement Law of Ghana (Act 663, 2003) for the presence of such indicators in it. The findings on the presence of such indicators were used to assess the Ghanaian public procurement law as a promoter of public procurement transparency. It was found out that the Act exhibits a great deal of properties that make it capable of ensuring transparency in the public procurement system of Ghana. However, a few shortcomings in the law with regards to its capacity to ensure transparency were identified leaving room for improvement in some areas. The implication of this is that the legal framework for doing procurement business for the government of Ghana will benefit from some changes to enable it to ensure better transparency.

Keywords: Public procurement transparency, Public procurement law, Public procurement regulation, Public procurement reforms, Public procurement corruption