| dc.description.abstract | This research report aimed at examining the extent or horizontal cooperative purchasing
performance in the procuring and disposing entities in the forces in Uganda with specific reference
to Uganda Police Force and Uganda Prisons Service. In this regard , the specific objectives were to
establish the status and form of collaboration between the two entities. identify the benefits of
collaboration, examine the relationship between horizontal collaboration and performance of
procurement and disposal entities, and how horizontal cooperative purchasing can be improved .
Considering the methodology, available literature on horizontal cooperative purchasing has been
covered to extract the most plausible information and data related to collaborative purchasing on
how it contributes to creating value, while putting into account the performance metrics of cost
management, timely delivery, quality management and accountability. However. the above metrics
in the study revealed that they could be used as a way forward to act as avenues of improving
horizontal cooperative purchasing in the public sector.
The findings of the study reveal that there is collaborative purchasing between the two entities
especially in terms of preliminary stages of the purchasing process including but not limited to
information seeking about the prices and technical specifications or identical items required by the
entities. Informal collaborations are prevalent from simple collaborative activities thus requiring
minimum level of collaboration that is more short term in nature and simpler in its purpose.
The study recommends that to advance public sector se rv1cc delivery and reach long term
solutions, collaborative activity needs to be appreciably more strategic in its approach to assure
intentional, systematic exclusionary collaboration as its administrators wrestle to achieve the best
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