IMPACT OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REFORM ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY IN KADUNA STATE.

Abstract

This research examined the Impact of Public Procurement Reform on construction project delivery in Kaduna State with the objective of assessing the level of awareness of the Public Procurement reform in Kaduna State on the registered and unregistered construction professionals working in Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, comprised of Quantity surveyors, Engineers, The study employed primary and secondary sources of data. A total of 130 research questionnaires were administered Builders, Architects and Estate surveyors in Kaduna, the study area. Out of these, 70 were properly filled and retrieved for analysis. The data collected included level of awareness of Public Procurement reform, rate of adoption of Public Procurement Reform, level of compliance with the provisions in the Public Procurement Act and public building projects executed from1999 to 2014 amongst others. The data obtained were analysed using Mean Item Score (MIS) and T-test. The result of the analysis showed that the level of awareness was high (50.3%), whilst the rate of adoption of the Public Procurement Reform was 50.7%. The study also found that there was a slight increase in the level of cost overrun at the pre and post PPA eras. However, there was no evidence of cost performance of buildings to differ significantly over the two time periods examined (1999 - 2007 and 2008 - 2014). The research consequently concluded that there was slight increase in the level of cost overrun between the pre and post PPA eras. Based on this, the research recommends that the Bureau of Public Procurement should focus on measures to improve the schedule certainty of construction projects carried out under the PPA, amongst others.