EVALUATION OF PROCUREMENT IN PUBLIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS DELIVERY

Abdulkadir, Abu Lawal

Department of Building Technology

College of Environmental Studies

Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic, Katsina.

E-mail: aalawal3@gmail.com

Abstract

The paper looked at procurement alternatives as essential cost saving measure in construction contracts, and the essence of contractual options in Nigeria as a developing Nation.  A statistical scenario herein is drawn based on the responses of key independent professionals who are most concerned with  building construction contract procurements in respect to key critical variable factors to rationale procurement. The respective agreements, and otherwise their dichotomy to these variable critical factors, were analyzed and discussed.  The scenario, like in a consensus decision making problems using fuzzy elements, is also based on their ranked ordinal data through structured questionnaire. This can be adopted and used to test the efficacy of procurement systems for local councils, state and federal government project execution in Nigeria, using Kendall’s tau coefficient of concordance, and chi-square (x²). From the analysis it is found that the Kendall’s coefficient is 0.0032 and chi square test yielded 5.472 at 0.05 significant levels indicating no significance to null hypothesis. Analyzing such responses to rationale procurement in construction very important, as contract procurement has become the focus of International agencies for projects financing, good leaders, and policy makers in the less developed countries. The identified contentious areas when rectified would facilitate immensely in plugging sources of fund leakages, and wastage. Further step can be taken using veritable structured questionnaire to obtain responses of employee in both the private and public sector, with the view of ascertaining whether the right procedures are adopted in projects execution. The need for the exigency of locking horns with inefficiency and leakages in our procurement system is necessary, and some remedial measures are suggested.