The Influence of Procurement Practices on Contract Management County Governments: A Case of Trans Nzoia County

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyse the effectiveness of contract management practices in Trans Nzoia County Government Kenya. This study was guided by the following objectives: identify the influence of information technology on effective contract management; The study was theorized by the Relation Theory and Principal- Agency theory. Literature is reviewed on the specific objectives of the study either directly or indirectly related to the study. Descriptive survey research design was used as the population comprised of all the contractors engaged with the County Government of Tran Nzoia and all the line mangers in the procurement department totalling to 2810 respondents. An appropriate sample of 290 was selected to represent the population in the study. Data was collected using survey method through use of structured questionnaires. The administration of the questionnaires was done through drop and pick. The process of data analysis involved several stages namely; data clean up and explanation. Data clean up involved editing, coding, and tabulation to detect any anomalies in the responses and assign specific numerical values to the responses for further analysis. Responses in the questionnaires was tabulated, coded and processed by use of a computer Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0 programme to analyze the data. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. This included measures of central tendency such as the mean, median, mode and frequencies where applicable. Keywords: Information Technology, Contract Management