In light of the principles of procurement, the objective of this research is to investigaternthe performance of international procurement practice in the case of Addis AbabarnUniversity. Procurement Directorate, its Users, suppliers and supporting stakeholders arernevaluated based on their performance in accordance to related practices in internationalrnprocurement. To gather information open and close ended questionnaires were preparedrnand distributed to purposefully selected respondents from procurement and relatedrnoffices staff of the AAU including judgmentally selected requesting Unit managers.rnFurther, semi- structured interview was conducted with each selected staff and top levelrnand experienced Procurement managers. In addition secondary sources also have helpedrnthe data collection. Methodologically, this study was designed to be descriptive. Thernmajor findings of the study indicates that the international procurement practice is notrnwell performed by End users, Procurement staffs, suppliers and stakeholders of AAUrnProcurement who are participating directly or indirectly in the international procurementrnof the University. The researcher recommended to the Management of AAU andrnspecially the procurement directorate to create opportunities for appropriate training,rnestablish organized marketing research department, introduce E-procurement andrnautomated data base systems, to create long term strategic supplier relationship forrnstrategic items through establishing a suppliers list registration system , create win-winrnand smooth relationship with suppliers, to create good relationship and awareness amongrnAAU Procurement, End Users, suppliers and the stakeholders using awareness creationrnevents, and to develop conducive organizational structure in the End Users departments Key Word;rnInternational Procurement