Abstract:
Local Government Authorities' effectiveness of achievement has been called into
question. The main goal of the study was to evaluate how well Tanzanian LGAs in
Kilimanjaro Region delivered value for money. Specifically the study aimed at
evaluating institutional factors; procurement procedures; staff competence; and
detecting if Public Procurement legal frameworks had contributions on achievement of
value for money in public procuring entities. Data from the Procurement Management
Unit staff, Tender Board, User Department, Negotiation Committee, and valuation
committee members that work for Local Government Authorities that really are
responsible for procurement decisions were collected applying a cross-sectional
research design. Yamane (1967), was used to determine sample size of 111 from the
target population of 245 members, and 107 use respondent participated, amounting to
96% of the overall sample size. Purposive sampling was used to choose the
questionnaires respondents and interviews with senior management staff were used for
data collection. There was considerable impact from each independent variable,
according to the results of an analysis utilizing the Multiple Linear Regression
Mmodel; institutional factors 67.6%, procurement procedures 67.2%, staff competence
67.9% and Public Procurement legal frameworks at 66.7% towards the dependent
variable. Additionally, the R Square was 0.584, indicating that the independent
variables contributed 58.4% to achievement of value for money in public procurement.
The level of significance p was discovered to be 0.000, indicating support (p < 0.05)
for each independent variable's contribution to achieving of value for money. The
model achieved goodness of fit at F = 35.771, indicating that it acquired statistical
significance and each independent variables have significant impact on value for
money achievement in Tanzanian LGAs. It was concluded that; institutional factors,
procurement procedures and staff competence level revealed their significance
contribution moderated by Public Procurement legal frameworks towards achievement
of value for money. The study recommends; the Public Procurement Act,2011 and the
public procurement regulation,2013 should be more improved, awareness should be
sensitized more to decision makers by the authority.
