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Tendering Confidentiality and Procurement Performance at Kenya Electricity Generating Company

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  • John Gichuki Kahare

    (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya)

  • Dennis Chege

    (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya)

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Procurement challenges including loss of public funds have become very common in the public sector where the public civil servants have colluded with suppliers of goods and works often to misappropriate public money. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence that ethics has on the procurement performance of State Corporation in Kenya. The study specifically sought to establish the influence that tendering confidentiality has on procurement performance at Kenya Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen).The population of the study included 381 procurement staff in Kenya in the two levels of management (middle and operational level of management). The probabilistic sampling method through the Taro Yamane formula was used to yield a sample of 195. The study was descriptive, data was collected through a semi-structured questionnaire with Likert questions. Data was collected specifically in the headquarters in Nairobi. Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics (frequency, standard deviation, mean, and percentages) and inferential analysis through the ordinary least square method. The study found that tendering confidentiality influenced procurement performance (F= 54.416, p

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  • John Gichuki Kahare & Dennis Chege, 2021. "Tendering Confidentiality and Procurement Performance at Kenya Electricity Generating Company," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(11), pages 700-704, November.
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