Determinants of Compliance With Public Procurement Guidelines in the Nigerian Construction Industry

Abstract

The Nigerian Construction industry through its procurement activities is contributing immensely to the economic development of the country.Nigeriaas a developing nation is still working hard to strengthening the public procurement sector through which public infrastructural facilities are developed. Public Procurement Guidelines are the procedural manual guiding public procurement processes. The guidelines are as provided by the public procurement Act PPA 2007, since then compliance with the guidelines has been facing a lot of obstacles. This paper identified and reviewed three major determinants of compliance with the procurement guidelines to include Familiarity with the procurement guidelines, Fraudulent Practices, and Influencing Projects awards. Thus recommended that, to achieve adequate compliance with the procurement guidelines procurement entities need to create room for awareness through training and workshops. The Bureau of public procurement must also ensure prosecution of procurement offences as part of its mandate. In addition, the National Council of Public Procurement NCPP be established and allow to play its role thus limiting the influences of project awards at the ministry level and at the procurement entity level as well.

Evaluation of compliance of concreting materials to standards in building projects in Lagos State, Nigeria

“…This could explain why procurement policy ignorance ranks highest among the most significant influence factors. This concurs with Zadawa et al (2015), DiMaggio and Powell (2015), and Tabish and Jha (2015), who identified procurement policies as a significant factor influencing compliance with the standard of materials.…”

“…Thus, deliberate changes in procurement policies affect professionals' compliance with national standards. This finding concurs with Zadawa et al (2015), which concluded that in Nigeria's public construction sector, misconception and unfamiliarity with procurement policies critically undermined compliance. Also, Mwelu et al (2018) observed that non-compliance is significantly induced by self-interest and weak enforcement mechanisms.…”

“…Mwelu et al (2018) observed that noncompliance is induced by; self-interest, weak enforcement mechanisms, inefficient regulatory frameworks, and unprofessional conduct. Zadawa et al (2015) concluded that misconceptions and unfamiliarity with procurement policies relatively undermined compliance in the Nigerian construction industry. Where building laws and regulations exist to achieve effective development control (Ezema and Olatunji, 2018), construction implementations still fall short of expectations because of unethical contract practices coupled with a weak regulatory framework (Longtau et al, 2016;Fernandez, 2014).…”

Compliance within a Regulatory Framework in Implementing Public Road Construction Projects

“…To conclude, three pertinent examples are offered; the Netherland's municipalities experienced non-compliance with procurement procedures due to a lack of familiarity with procurement process itself (de Boer and Telgen, 1998). Similarly, in Nigeria's public construction sector, misconceptions and a lack of familiarity with procurement policies significantly affected compliance (Zadawa, Hussin and Osmadi, 2015) and finally reports showed a lack of familiarity with regulatory framework significantly affected compliance with Procurement Act in Kenya's public secondary schools' sector (Migosi et al, 2013).…”

Strategic public procurement regulatory compliance model with mediating effect of ethical behavior

“…For this reason, it was argued that the awareness of procurement regulation in state-owned enterprises is low (Sandada and Kambarami, 2016). Through a conceptual model, Zadawa et al (2015) highlighted the possible influence of familiarity with procurement guidelines on compliance with public procurement regulations.…”