FACTORS AFFECTING THE IMPLEMENTAION OF CENTRALIZED PROCUREMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTORS IN KENYA: A CASE STUDY OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

The study is to investigate on the factors affecting the implementation of centralized procurement in the public sectors in Kenya with reference to Ministry of Education. The objectives of the study included to find out the effects of finance, to determining the effects of training, to find out the effects of government policy, to establish the effect of standardization and to find out the effect of inventory management in the implementation of centralized procurement in public sectors. The research will use descriptive research design in collecting data from respondents. The study will cover a population of 90employees in the organization and will use stratified random sampling technique, where 50% of the entire population will form the sample size of 45 respondents. The instrument of data collection will be questionnaires. The data will be analyzed using qualitative and quantitative methods and the data presentation will be in form of graphs, pie charts and table diagrams respectively