Shwarka, M and Anigbogu, N A (2012) Impact of the public procurement reform on public building project delivery in Nigeria. In: Smith, S D (ed.) Proceedings of 28th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2012, Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract
Reducing the cost of public projects' delivery is a major challenge of Governments worldwide and increasingly procurement reforms are considered as unique means of achieving lower costs for infrastructure delivery and value for money. Thus the Nigerian Public Procurement Reform is expected to result in significant improvement in public projects' performance which should impact the country’s overall economic situation and foster the realization of the Government developmental target of being among the top twenty economies of the world by the year 2020. This paper analyses the impact of the Public Procurement Reform on public building projects' delivery in Nigeria. The impact of the Public Procurement Reform is hypothesized to depend on crucial factors such as planning practices for public building projects, adoption of appropriate procurement options, contractor selection practices and the enthroning of best ethical standards by public building practitioners. Actual project performance data were compared on public building projects delivered prior and after the commencement the procurement reform. In addition, a sample survey comparing opinions of key practitioners on the impact of the reform on public building projects' delivery was carried out, and the result of the pilot study shows there is no significant difference between the mean response of contractors, consultants and construction professionals in Ministries, Departments and Agencies with regard to the reform’s impact on irregularities associated with public building projects delivery in Nigeria. Inadequate project/budgeting plans by the client and the project team identified as the most constraining factors in the attainment of desired impact on public building projects delivery. The outcome of this study would provide empirical ground that assists in decisions on the sustainability of the procurement reform in Nigeria, whose experience might be applicable the rest of the developing world and may provide relevant clues to assist other countries.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | impact; building performance; procurement reform |
| Index terms: | agency, budgeting, option, public project, Nigeria, project delivery, building performance, value-for-money, infrastructure delivery, project performance, practitioner, contractor selection, public building, project team, construction professional, survey |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, practitioner, financial management, Geography, infrastructure engineering, construction type, sociology, tendering, quality assurance, project management theory and practice, decision analysis, evaluation, strategic project management, project delivery, professional development |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Information Management, Risk Management, Roles and Professions, Research Practice, Value Management, Procurement, Business Strategy, Geographical Context, Quality Management, Project Management, Construction Technology |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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