Effect Of Contract Management On Procurement Performance Of Relief Operation The Case Of Sos Childrens Village Ethiopia.

Logistics and supply chain operations are the major areas of concern to humanitarian organizationsrnsince they account to 70% of their expense, procurement is one of, if not the, essential part of logisticsrnand supply chain operation of humanitarian organizations since they procure a range of goods andrnservices to deliver relief to beneficiaries. Contract management is one factor in improving procurementrnperformance and to get goods and services in the right amount, in the right time, to the right place. Therngeneral objective of this research is to assess the effect of contract management on procurementrnperformance of humanitarian organizations with special focus in the case of SOS Children’s VillagernEthiopia. This research conceptualized and developed three dimensions of contract management (prernaward contract management, contract administration, and post contract close-out contractrnmanagement practices) and test relationship and effect with & on procurement performance. The studyrnutilized a cross sectional, descriptive and explanatory research design using a self-administered closernended questionnaire and interview to collect primary data and review of documents to gather secondaryrndata. The data of the study was collected from 34 employees of SOS Children’s Village Ethiopia.rnInterview was conducted with one manager. The relationships proposed in the frame work were testedrnusing parson correlation, and causal relations were analyzed using regression analysis. From thernoutput of the analysis, there is a moderate contract management practice with a mean value of 3.32.rnAnd it is concluded that there is a significant and positive relationship between contract managementrnand procurement performance constructs of right quality, rights price and right quantity with Pearsonrncorrelation coefficient of 0.538 for contract administration, 0.538 for pre award contract managementrnboth at P=0.001 significance level and 0.341 for post contract close-out contract management practicernat P=0.05 significance level. In addition, contract management has an influence on procurementrnperformance constructs of right quality, right price and right quantity in which 55.2% of variation inrnthis procurement performance constructs is explained by contract management. There was positivernsignificant influence by contract administration and pre award contract management (p=.001) onrnprocurement performance constructs of right quality, right price, and right quantity of SOS Children’srnVillage Ethiopia. Therefore, in order to achieve delivery in the right quantity, the right quality, from thernright source, in the right time and with the right price to enhance procurement performance. SOSrnChildren’s Village Ethiopia is advised to give due significant emphasis to the constructs of contractrnmanagement practice such as performing risk assessment on contracts before award, developingrncontract management strategy and plan, performing performance management on open contracts,rndeveloping a contract close out check list and performing post contract closeout reviews.rnKey words:

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