Perceived Robustness and Efficacy of Procurement Risk Controls: a Tanzanian Public Sector Context

Abstract

Public organizations have repeatedly failed to fulfil their promise of achieving value for money due to their over-reliance in procurement management and neglecting the need to astutely manage procurement risks. This study examined the maturity and effectiveness of risk controls in public organizations. The study adopted a descriptive design and the study area was Dodoma and Dar es Salaam where 40 questionnaires were distributed to the randomly selected procuring entities and filled by procurement practitioners. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings were significant regarding the contribution of training to risk control (p-value=0.012). However, the contribution of training to risk control is 45.59%. Findings reveal the risk controls in public entities were immature (p-value=0.780) because organizations limited their risk control efforts to risk identification only. Therefore, procuring entities are required to upscale their risk control efforts by emphasizing on risk management and control as part of procurement management.