The Antecedents and the Prospects of Public Procurement Regulation in Ghana

Abstract

The development of Public Procurement regulation in Ghana culminating into the promulgation of the Public Procurement Act 663 has been traced in this paper. In 2003, Ghana promulgated the Act 663 to tackle public procurement corruption among other objectives. By means of a content analysis, a critical analysis of the Act 663 has been offered and a few changes have been suggested to improve its comprehensiveness, its capacity to ensure Transparency; its properties for Good management; its capacity to prevent misconduct, enable compliance and monitoring and its capacity to ensure Accountability, control and anti-corruption properties.

Keywords: Public Procurement Reform, Public Procurement Regulation, Crown Agents