The Relevance of Procurement in Public Administration: A South African Perspective

G. Mazibuko
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Public procurement is a big industry in public administration as taxpayers’ money spent by the government on goods, services and infrastructure accounts for the massive gross domestic product (GDP) of a country. This study upholds the idea that public procurement is relevant and activity of public administration. The public administration atmospheres focus on macro milieus and support the government to advance consciousness, dynamics convoluted purchases of government goods, services, works and infrastructure development. Such external environmental aspects moving public and private buyers in the same direction are that of reconnoitring those critical environmental inspirational procurement procedures. This calls for public administrators to design bid processes according to the above-mentioned influences, as they are cradles of government financial spending and economic progression. Public administration philosophies succor to offer dimensions and theoretical conceptual work on how procurement should proceed within the government. Such public administration theories are paramount to transcend the understanding of procurement in the public sector. Specifically, the generic administrative functions as they relate to public procurement are relevant in expounding this research. The paper is the exploratory one, seeking to expand the knowledge base and stimulate discourse on procurement practices in government. A qualitative research and content analysis was employed in this study. It can be deduced that there is the relevance of procurement in government, as government procures and spends billions and even trillions of rands financing goods, services, public works, massive infrastructure development-highways, bridges, dams, airports, seaports and other essential amenities. These massive kinds of procurement have to be accounted for against corrupt and state capture activities.
采购与公共行政的关系:一个南非的视角
公共采购是公共行政中的一个大产业,因为政府在商品、服务和基础设施上花费的纳税人的钱占了一个国家的巨额国内生产总值(GDP)。本研究坚持公共采购与公共行政活动相关的观点。公共行政氛围注重宏观环境,支持政府超前意识,推动政府采购商品、服务、工程和基础设施建设的动态。这种使公共和私人购买者朝着同一方向发展的外部环境因素是查明那些关键的环境激励采购程序。这就要求公共行政人员根据上述影响来设计投标程序,因为它们是政府财政支出和经济发展的摇篮。公共行政哲学有助于提供采购应如何在政府内部进行的维度和理论概念性工作。这种公共行政理论对于超越对公共部门采购的理解至关重要。具体而言,与公共采购相关的一般行政职能与阐述本研究相关。本文是一篇探索性的论文,旨在扩大知识基础,激发对政府采购实践的讨论。本研究采用质性研究与内容分析相结合的方法。可以推断出,政府采购是有相关性的,因为政府采购并花费数十亿甚至数万亿兰特为商品、服务、公共工程、大规模基础设施开发(高速公路、桥梁、水坝、机场、海港和其他基本设施)融资。这些大规模的采购必须考虑到腐败和国家捕获活动。
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