Abstract:
It is estimated that 70% of Tanzanian country budget channels through the public procurement system. Out of this
works procurement account for 60% of the total value of procurement in the country. Despite this significant value,
still little attention has been taken on improving an area of compliance with procurement contracts for works. This
is justified by a very low compliance of (65%) with publication of works contract awards, also (71%) in works
contracts implementation and (55%) on availability of quality control systems on works contracts. Hence there
was a need to research an area of procurement contracts of works in relation to available legal frame work.
The study applied a case study design, where a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was
employed to collect and analyze the data. This included use of descriptive statistics for quantitative approach and
both interpretive and reflexive for qualitative approach. Three main areas were researched using these approaches;
works tendering procedures, contracts formulations and implementations and contracts delivery.
The findings portray a low level of compliance with PPA 2004 specifically in the areas of tendering procedures,
works contracts formulations and implementations and works contracts performance output/delivery. These were
justified by the lack of a wide range of tender advertisements and publications of award decisions. There were also
inadequate works contracts supervisions and evidences of delayed works contracts completions.
It is therefore recommended that Sumbawanga District Council has to make necessary efforts to improve an area
of compliance with public procurement law on contracts of works.
