The Effect of Supplier Appraisal on Procurement Performance in Government Ministries in Rwanda; A Case Study of Mininfra

The choice of an organizations supplier should be guided by an elaborate evaluation of the potential suppliers since the suppliers can impact the performance of any procurement function or process. Delayed deliveries, poor quality products or services, non-completion of orders and even threats of litigation due to delayed payments is a common scenario experienced by public institutions. The main objective of this study is to assess the effect of supplier appraisal on procurement performance in government ministries: a case of MININFRA. In this study, the researcher used descriptive research design to investigate the relationship between supplier appraisal and procurement performance. The study population is 102 employees from all departments of MININFRA.45 employees were sampled by using Slovins formula. This study was used questionnaire technique to correct data. Supplier appraisal has an overall correlation with procurement performance of 0.743 which is strong and positive. The Results indicate that financial sustainability content is the most significant in explaining procurement performance in government ministries with a significance of 0.000 which is less that a p-value of 0.05 and contribute 85.3 % to the procurement performance. MININRA has supplier appraisal evaluation criteria in place for various supplier categories. Most of the respondents were strongly agreed and agreed; supplier appraisal influenced the procurement performance in MININFRA. Researcher found that, there is positive relationship between supplier appraisal and procurement performance. MININFRA should therefore invest on modern appraisal criteria that have been proven to have greater procurement performance.