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.
