Abstract

The study sought to examine the effects of record-keeping on public procurement performance in the
Iganga District. The findings of the study revealed that at Iganga district Local government, there are
various methods used in record keeping as respondents agreed to most of the statements that were used
to measure this objective. However, it was realized that research record keeping is not fully done and also
that administrative record keeping is not done at the district. The findings of the study also revealed that
there are various factors that affect procurement performance, the major one being the nature of the
control system and the least accepted was the evaluation of suppliers. Furthermore, the study respondents
agreed that record-keeping affects procurement performance. Therefore, an improvement in record
keeping improves procurement performance at Iganga District local government. The study
recommended that the government should ensure that employees carry out administrative record
keeping, the employees should carry research record keeping on a daily basis in order to attain more
knowledge in various areas, the government should ensure that the control system that is both the
internal and the external control systems are good enough as it affects the procurement performance of
the district and that the management of Iganga district local government should ensure that record
keeping is done on a daily basis as it generally improves that procurement performance.