ICT Infrastructure Management, Security Management

Challenges and critical success factors for e-procurement adoption in Ethiopia

To ensure public procurement process fair, transparent, efficient and ethical, the Ethiopian Government implemented e-procurement adoption in selected pilot public organizations. This study intended to identify the major perceived challenges and critical success factors for e-procurement implementation and to ascertain strategies to mitigating the existing perceived challenges for e-procurement implementation in nine federal level organizations IN Ethiopia, selected as pilot scaled-down e-procurement implementation sites. Interview and structured questionnaire were used to collect primary data from purposively selected top managements and experts with directorate position from Finance, Procurement and ICT department from a total of 27and 54 employees, respectively and carried out analysis with 89 percent response rate. The result revealed that, man-power retention, inconsistent and disruptive infrastructure, integration with the legacy system, top management and employees’ commitmen...