Procurement Practices of Higher Education Institutions in Samar Province
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Procurement Practices, Higher Education Institutions (HEI), Samar ProvinceAbstract
This study aimed to determine the procurement practices of HEIs in Samar Province. The descriptive research design was used in the conduct of this study to provide a descriptive account or to establish a quantitative relationship between the variables. For the findings, the experiences of the procurement process of private HEIs procurement officer, supplier and end-user respondents in terms of timeliness, effectiveness and quality of the item, the procurement officers experienced to follow the procurement policy of the private HEIs to acquire the supplies with the best quality of the product at the most possible time and to pay the suppliers after delivery was made. For the procurement process of infrastructure projects of private HEIs along timeliness, effectiveness, and quality of the items, the results revealed that the allocation of funds and time table of the project was determined by the private HEIs head of office or the board of directors. For the conclusions, as to volume received, the public HEIs end-users expected to receive all their supplies based on the Annual Procurement Plan, while the private HEIs expected to receive their request as approved by their agency. In addition, public HEI-end-user-respondents had the highest wit with 10 or 30.30 percent to indicator “Good Quality” and the private HEIs had the highest of 13 or 40.63 percent to indicator “Best Quality”. This revealed that both HEIs received the items with the “Good Quality” when the PO was served and approved by the procuring entity. it was concluded that among three groups of respondents, the procurement officers, the suppliers and the end-user had similar observations on the extent of implementation of the procurement process along timeliness, effectiveness and quality of the item of HEIs in Samar Province.
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