Keywords
notification of award
hypothesis test
cost-saving
time-saving
e-GP system
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Abstract
Public procurement is a vital process to procure goods, works and services, ensuring accountability that ensures cost and time-savings. However, cost and time reduction is a considerable barrier to the Roads and Highways Department's (RHD) public procurement. In RHD, however, no comparative analysis of the efficiency in the cost and time context of tender notification of award has been explored. Therefore, using a stratified sampling method, the RHD's e-procurement-related PE officers were chosen as a sample. The mean value of notification of award cost and time of the e-tender system and the manual tender system as a continuous normally distributed variable was utilized to compare two groups using the independent samples t-test model. The study's novel contribution is the comparison of efficiency in terms of cost and time context between two sets of manual and e-tender notification of award. According to the survey results, the e-procurement system showed lower costs and time involved in giving notification of award to bidder compared to manual tender. The results will also aid academicians, students and procurement entities improvements to e-GP policy standards. More public procurement entities will be influenced to procure using e-GP system.
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