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Evaluation Of The Use Of Tenders In A Public Sector Procurement
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Tender
to a layman means many things such as to pamper a child, something that
is young and so on. But in this context, tender is defined as “An offer
made in writing by one party to another to execute certain supply
contract/commodity slated at a stated costâ€.
Tendering is the
process of making an offer, bid or proposal or expressing interest in
response to an invitation or request for tender.
The
dictionary of purchasing and supply management defines tender and
tendering as offers from without callous, usually in sealed envelope,
delivered by a time and date specified in the invitation to tendering
from supply of goods and services. Uzor (2004:440) in CIPS, tendering
can be defined as the public release by an organization of the
requirements of goods or services for a project in order to allow formal
bids to be made to supply the goods or services. Lyson (1996) also
defined tendering as a purchase procedure whereby potential suppliers
are invited to make a form and unequivocal offer of the price and terms
which on acceptance shall be the basis of the subsequent contract.
Chilaka o. and Amanze c. defines tender as an offer to sell at the right
price indicated and can be converted into a contract by acceptance in
the form of a buyers order.
Tender as an offer to sell at the
price indicate and can be converted into a contract by accepting the
offer in the form of a buyers order.
Perhaps, tendering is
the very first opportunity for the buyers to have a full detail of the
supplier and for the suppliers to improve their services level is the
most important element. The public sector management has in their part
made numerous contributions to effective and efficient management of
contract in the public sector. Several restrictions has been made to see
that tenders and tendering are dully observed. For instance, no
contract work involving construction shall be considered by tenders
board unless for the reasons as:
(a) The land has been
acquired and the topography map on soil tested except where it has been
approved by the Architect and it is not necessary. The document relating
to the land, the survey map, the soil, test report or certificate of
example by the architect should then pay off contract document to be
presented to the board. See newly reviewed financial regulations (2000)
i. Architect design
ii. Structure design
iii. Mechanical design
iv. Bill of qualities
Furthermore,
in chapter 32 of financial regulation (2000) the conditions governing
the local purchase of stores are set out and subject to those condition
all local purchases of stores etc and all work and service costing over
N500,000 must be obtained by contract after public tender. It must be
recorded that tendering has been misused, mis-managed or even
mis-understood.
This single cause of poor contract collection of
mobilization fees is carefully considered. The essence of this research
therefore is to examine on evaluation of the use of effective an
efficient tendering in improving public sector contract management and
administration.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE STUDY
(a) A greater
number of problem have bedeviled public sector tender which has had
great affection on public sector procurement. The quality of contract
entered by the public sector organization. The entire contract system
has gone sour as a result of mis-management, corruption, misapplication
of rule and regulation set to be adhered to in contracting for goods and
services.
(b) Another problem facing public sector tendering is
the issue of Nigeria factor where the nation suffer while the individual
grows, selfishness, political consideration, godfatherism, embezzlement
of public fund, contract abandonment, etc.. all these have in no small
measure affected the quality of tendering which in turn affect the
quality of public sector.
(c) The out date nature of our financial
or stores regulation which guides the operations of public procurement
as well as public sector tendering gin the greatest problem of our
public sector tendering and therefore has serious implication on the
efficiency and effectiveness of public sector contract management and
administration.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The subject matter of this study is to carefully evaluate the use of tenders in the public sector procurement. In a bid for better understanding of public procurement as to the Nigerian content backed by the Nigerian procurement Act of 2007. This research work will be focusing on the Bureau for public procurement (BPP) Lion building Enugu as a public sector as a case study. This research work will also take a close look at the various terms that are associated with public procurement. The obje ... Continue reading---
