PREFERENCE AND RESERVATION SCHEME: AN EXCEPTION TO THE GENERAL RULE OF OPEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Abstract

The urge for fair competition in public procurement process has led to many governments through national treasury and public procurement regulatory authorities come up with frameworks that promotes efficiency and equity in procurement. From the definition, the right to selection of person(s) from an identified target group which is considered more desirable than others and giving them an exclusive chance to procure goods within a specified threshold is known as Preference. This paper examines determinants of preference and reservation scheme on performance of Turkana County Government, Kenya. The target population included procurement officers, finance officers, ICT officers and stores in charge. Procurement plan and supplier relationship management are key dimensions which were used to give more insights into the study. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to get the study sample size, and questionnaire was used as the main tool for data collection. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were used to analyze the research data. The model summary result shows a good strength of relationship between the independent and dependent variables respectively.