Assessment of traditional procurement system in Nigeria: key challenges and proposed solutions
Traditional procurement system is commonly used in Nigerian construction industry. However; despite the wide choice of other procurement system, there are numerous of key challenges that affects cost, time and quality of completed project. This challenge contributes negatively to both parties namely...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9558/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9558/1/Mohammed_Hamisu_Garba.pdf |
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| Summary: | Traditional procurement system is commonly used in Nigerian construction industry.
However; despite the wide choice of other procurement system, there are numerous of
key challenges that affects cost, time and quality of completed project. This challenge
contributes negatively to both parties namely clients and contractor. To date, there are
limited works that assess the key challenges of traditional procurement system in
Nigeria which hinders the proposition of possible solutions to the problems. Hence, this
research aims to identify the key challenges that are associated with traditional
procurement in Nigerian construction industry with a view to identify areas of weakness
and propose a solution. It also involves identification of the most frequent use of
traditional procurement system. Structured questionnaire was distributed to 136
contractors that actively participated in the construction industry with 78 percent
response rate. The use of mean, ranking, correlation and analysis of variance were used
to analyses the data. The result shows that all the challenges have a significant
relationship with the open tendering method. Further analysis also show that all the key
challenges: Cost certainty, Time certainty, Build ability and Fragmentation of
organizational interface have a significant relationship with one another. All the
formulated solutions such as creation of unified project team, improvement in line of
communication, early participation of contractor in design stage were found to be
related to all the individual challenges and are therefore, suitable in overcoming all the
key challenges. |
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