Imperatives for Setting up a Body of Knowledge on Public Procurement Practice in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Kanu Success Ikechi ◽  
Anuolam Moses Onyema ◽  
Nwadiubu Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
One Stop

A body of knowledge (BOK) refers to the core teachings and skills required to work in a particular field of human endeavor or industry. This study is set to ascertain if there is need to develop an acceptable body of knowledge on public procurement practice in Nigeria. It adopted a survey research design as open ended questionnaires were administered and used to elicit response on subject matter. The population consists of procurement staff in some selected MDA’s at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. Outcome of the study reveals that there is no one-stop body of knowledge or a comprehensive guide on procurement practice in Nigeria. This may be a pointer to the fact that, there is need to establish one. It is one thing for Nigeria to enact the Public Procurement Act; it is yet another for practitioners as well as the general public to fully understand and imbibe the basic tenets and regulations guiding the procurement practice. It will be necessary to train and retrain practitioners and a veritable tool in this direction is the establishment of a body of knowledge on procurement practice. If this is properly articulated, will provide the procedures, skills and tools needed to practice the trade. This is bound to impact positively on process flow and make for a good procurement practice in Nigeria.

Public Procurement and Transparency in the Private Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Tom Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pay Differences ◽  
United Kingdom Government

This chapter begins by considering public procurement in the context of equality duties. The United Kingdom government has not used the Equality Act 2010’s regulation-making powers to impose specific statutory public procurement equality duties in England, but the Welsh and Scottish Ministers have made such regulations. Equality considerations are nonetheless relevant considerations in a public authority’s public procurement decisions as part of the general public sector equality duty in section 149 of the Act. The extent to which equality can (and should) be taken into account in the public procurement process is also, therefore, relevant to private undertakings which might wish to tender for the provision of goods or services to public authorities. The chapter then addresses the provisions in the Act intended to improve transparency in the private sector by prohibiting clauses which prevent employees discussing their pay. The Act introduced, in section 78, a power to make regulations which would impose a requirement on businesses to report on gender pay differences.

From Public to Publics

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amnon Cavari ◽  
Guy Freedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Research Design ◽  
General Public ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

A rich body of work examines the public agenda in democratic countries. These studies rely on aggregate responses to survey questions that ask respondents to report their issue priorities—commonly using topline data of the most important problem survey series (MIP). This research design, however, is not sensitive to differences in issue priorities between individuals and groups and, therefore, fails to account for the possible variation within the general public. To overcome this neglect in existing literature, we examine individual-level responses to the most important problem question in two countries—the United States and Israel—focusing specifically on economic and foreign policy priorities. We reveal that beyond aggregate trends in the public agenda, socio-demographic factors in both countries explain some of the variation in issue dynamics.

scholarly journals Social Clauses in Public Procurement as a Premise to Optimise Financing of the Tasks of Government Units

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Ewaryst Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Contracts

Accepting on 26 February 2014 by the European Parliament and the Council a new directive concerning procurement and the necessity to transposition its provisions to the Polish legal system caused the appearance of vital changes in the area of procurement referring to social aspects. The most momentous changes are connected with the specified in regulations possibility to describe a subject-matter of the contract including social requirements, possibility to exclude contractors exclusion and forming conditions of participating in proceedings, and possibility of forming offers assessment criteria referring to social aspects. Therefor the social aspects became a momentous, yet facultative premise of the optimisation of the public expenses within public contracts.

Arthur Benjamin and the French Public

Tempo ◽  
1955 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Changeur
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Public ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peter Grimes ◽  
Remote Part

“How will the public react to it?” is a question that arises when an opera is about to have its first performance in a foreign countryArthur Benjamin's opera Primadonna does not seem a difficult one to “export,” mainly because of its subject-matter. One might expect the action of a British opera to take place in some remote part of Old England (as in Peter Grimes, the most famous of English operas with us French) whose ways are so unfamiliar as to risk leaving the general public quite untouched. Here, however, there is no such risk: we are in Venice, the courtly Venice of the 18th century, and the characters, the déecor, the whole atmosphere belong to the cultural heritage of all Europe.

Clinical Supervisory Skills of School Heads: A District – Based Learning Action Cell Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Roderick R. Vilan
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
School Heads ◽  
Supervisory Skills

Using the non-experimental descriptive survey research design this study aimed to investigate the   level of the clinical supervisory skills of the public elementary school heads as perceived by district supervisors. Eventually came up with a district-based LAC session which addressed the grey areas found in this study. Using the universal sampling this study was conducted on all public elementary and secondary schools in the division of Davao del Sur. This study utilized the researcher-made questionnaire which items focused on the supervisory skills, the Cronbach Alpha was tested to assess its validity and reliability. This study revealed that the school heads from both elementary and secondary frequently used the process in conducting clinical supervision. Moreover, this study further revealed that there were locations wherein school heads got low specifically in the art of questioning the teacher to draw his/her instructional problem. Classroom teachers should have encouraged learners to join co-curricular activities and tap stakeholders to financially support the learners who opted to join co-curricular activities.

scholarly journals Procurement challenges in the Zimbabwean public sector: A preliminary study

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abel Dzuke ◽  
Micheline J.A. Naude
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Strategic Recognition

Background: State Procurement Board procedures and the public procurement process have been blamed for the lagging behind of government projects that impact on public service delivery in Zimbabwe.Objectives: This article provides insight into challenges resulting from the legal framework for public procurement in Zimbabwe that detract from service delivery.Method: Empirical data was collected through in-depth interviews with five participants at five public entities, using a semi-structured interview guide. Content analysis was used to analyse the primary data.Results: The findings revealed various challenges in the public procurement process that detract from service delivery. These include a lack of strategic recognition of the procurement function and procurement policy; a lack of professional, managerial and leadership skills; a lack of appropriated funds from Treasury; and a lack of accountability in the procurement process.Conclusion: There is a dearth of research on the public procurement process and its efficiency in Zimbabwe, and this study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by identifying areas through which public procurement can be improved in Zimbabwe.

Profession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kellerman
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Extended Training ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation ◽  
Extended Education

The chapter explores how a profession is different from an occupation and how an area of human endeavor evolves from an occupation to a profession. More particularly, it asks why the effort to make management a profession was unsuccessful and how medicine and law made the successful transition from simple practices to complex professions. The professionalization of medicine and law is tracked in some detail, generating conclusions about how professional status is achieved. These include generally accepted body of knowledge; extended education; extended training; clear criteria for evaluation; clear criteria for certification; clear demarcation between those within the profession and those without; explicit commitment to the public interest; explicit commitment to a code of ethics; and a professional association with the power and authority to monitor the status of the profession and the conduct of its members. Leadership, it is noted, fails to meet every one of these criteria.

scholarly journals Problems affecting the operational procurement process: A study of the Zimbabwean public sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abel Dzuke ◽  
Micheline J.A. Naude
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Bid Evaluation

Background: The public sector occupies a key role in the economy comprising the appropriation of state revenue to purchase goods and to render services productively, while ensuring the optimum utilisation of available funds and resources to benefit the inhabitants of the country. Problems in the Zimbabwean public procurement sector that detract from service delivery are key contemporary issues. This is evident from the numerous complaints of poor service delivery received by the public that can be attributed to public procurement.Objective: The purpose of this article was to report on a study that investigated problems in the different stages of the operational procurement process in the Zimbabwean public sector that detract from service delivery, the extent of these problems and how the public procurement process can be improved to enhance service delivery.Method: This descriptive and exploratory study followed a quantitative approach. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire administered to all public entities in Zimbabwe. Data were analysed using SPSS. Results: The majority of the identified problems in the public procurement sector that detract from service delivery are found in the advertising, bid evaluation and contract stages.Conclusion: As only a few studies on this topic have been conducted in Zimbabwe, the findings of this research add a significant perspective to the existing body of knowledge and can assist stakeholders with regard to how the public procurement process can be improved in order to enhance service delivery through public procurement process reform and restructuring.

scholarly journals Communicating science to college students and the general public

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (01S) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Geeta
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Public ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Great Success ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Widespread Interest

As teachers we try to find ways to effectively communicate with our students, in order to help them to learn. Education is a two-way process that consists of teaching and learning. Whether this package results in the desired effect (i.e., “education”) depends on how well the subject matter is communicated. Obviously, effectiveness of communication depends upon transmission and reception, the ultimate goal being that the transmitted and received messages carry the same meaning for the teacher and student. In other words, we want the recipients of our communication to understand our words and phrases and concepts in the same way as we do. Whether or not we achieve this goal depends upon a variety of factors, including how instructors present their material, and how students learn. We also communicate science to the general public in different contexts. One effective way to learn something is to teach it – something most of us have experienced. What better way for students to learn a concept or fact than to communicate it to the public? Here, I present our experiments at the University of Delhi in using this approach to convey the principles of evolutionary biology. Our annual celebrations of Evolution and Evolutionary Biology around “Darwin Day” (12th February, Charles Darwin’s birthday) have turned out to be an excellent opportunity to illustrate this point. It is difficult to determine the results of these experiments, but anecdotally we can say that our efforts have been a great success in terms of garnering widespread interest and enthusiastic participation by students, faculty, staff and the general public.

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