AN EVALUATION ON THE IMPACT OF SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICE IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: A CASE OF THE SIERRA LEONE AIRPORT AUTHORITY, PORT LOKO DISTRICT NORTH-WEST REGION OF SIERRA LEONE

Auteur/ices

  • Osman G. Kamara Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship, Department of Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Earnest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Magburaka, Sierra Leone
  • Foday Bassie Turay Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Lunsar, Lunsar, Sierra Leone

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejefr.v8i4.1782

Mots-clés :

sustainability, practice, public procurement, monitoring, evaluation, environment, economic

Résumé

This study assesses and evaluates the impact of sustainability practices in public procurement in the Sierra Leone Airport Authority Portloko district, North-West region of Sierra Leone. Evaluating sustainable procurement practices in public procurement is essential as sustainability is a discrete business activity that links the value chains for public procurement. The public procurement value chain environment has been subjected to various challenges, from purchasing decisions that are averse to humans to issues of climate change that impact procurement decisions. Furthermore, the principle of balancing the triple constraints (economic, social, and environmental) directly influences procurement decisions, especially within public procurement and value-for-money principles. The study employed a survey design because of its broad capability to solicit information from the respondents. Both primary and secondary data were used to collect data from the respondents. The primary data was collected using a questionnaire, which was captured using the Census and Survey Processing (CSPro) system and later exported to SPSS for more descriptive statistics. The finding reveals that in the case of repair and maintenance work, issues like rigorous quality and product life cycle need assessment, sustainability consideration in the procurement process, and sustainable reuse of garbage and debris are almost equally important (45%, 30%, 25%) according to respondents’ perceptions. So, respondents agreed upon the importance of sustainability in procurement. Nevertheless, on the other hand, 80% of respondents say that they are practicing the lowest quoted price criteria as a contract which may not cover sustainability issues effectively. Monitoring and Evaluation help improve performance and achieve results. More precisely, the overall purpose of procurement monitoring and evaluation is the measurement and assessment of compliance and performance in order to effectively manage the outcome and outputs known as development results. Performance is progress towards the achievement of desired results. Compliance is progress towards the achievement of procedures and processes that have been laid down. The need to demonstrate compliance and performance is placing higher demands on monitoring and evaluation in public procurements. Traditionally, monitoring and evaluation focused on assessing inputs and implementation processes. Today, the focus is on assessing the contributions of various factors to sustainability practice in public procurement.

 

JEL: Q56, H57, M14, D61, L23, O22

 

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Biographies des auteurs

  • Osman G. Kamara, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship, Department of Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Earnest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Magburaka, Sierra Leone

    Osman G. Kamara, Lecturer, Earnest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship. Have lectured in several higher institutions, including the University of Sierra Leone, University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH) and Njala University, and have attained the rank of Head of Department. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Statistics, a Master of Science in Economics, and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Njala University, Sierra Leone. He has participated in many national and international surveys. He has been a researcher for over ten years now and has good experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting. He has been a World Bank consultant on project evaluation. He has experience with many software like SPSS, Excel, Eviews, STATA, Kobo Collect and more.

  • Foday Bassie Turay, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Lunsar, Lunsar, Sierra Leone

    Foday Bassie Turay, Senior Lecturer University of Lunsar Faculty of Pure and Applied Science. A former lecturer at the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH). A PhD student at the Lagos State University in the Mathematics Department. He holds a Master of Science in Statistics, a Bachelor's Degree With honours in Environmental Science from Njala University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education specialist in Mathematics Education from the University of Sierra Leone, and a certificate in Data Management and Demographics. He is an experienced Statistician/Researcher with more than eight years of experience in the field of survey design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. He has coordinated, managed, and been part of twenty (20) surveys and statistical activities with competence in mathematics, economic statistics, econometrics, statistical computing, and programming. He is experienced in questionnaire design using CSPro, Access and Survey CTO, Google Form and Kobo Collect, and he has vast computer knowledge.

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Publiée

2024-07-28

Numéro

Vol. 8 No 4 (2024)

Rubrique

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