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Administrative management in procurement
processes in a public sector entity
La gestión administrativa en los procesos de adquisiciones
en una entidad del sector público
Pompeyo Gabriel Asca Agama
*
Olga María del Carmen Ramos Huamán
*
Roque Juan Espinoza Casco
*
Rogelio Espinoza Gálvez
*
ABSTRACT
The objective of this work was to investigate the
implications of administrative management in the
procurement processes in a public sector entity, with a
qualitative approach, the design was a case study,
interviews were conducted using structured interview
guides, the results of which will allow authorities and
officials to implement corrective measures so that
administrative management and procurement processes
are done efficiently and transparently. The results showed
that there was no interrelation between the phases of
administrative management, deadlines were not met, the
directives or manuals are outdated, there is a lack of
monitoring of their processes and oversight, in order to
achieve the goals set by the entity in a timely manner.
Key words: administrative management, procurement
process, control.
RESUMEN
El objetivo de este trabajo, fue indagar las implicancias que
tuvo la gestión administrativa en los procesos de
adquisiciones en una entidad del sector público, de enfoque
cualitativo, el diseño fue el estudio de casos, se realizaron
* D. in Public Management and Governance, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima,
Peru pascaa@ucvvirtual.edu.pe, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8819-3318
* D. in Public Management and Governance, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima,
Peru, olga.ramos@uwiener.edu.pe, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7872-3597
* D. in Public Management and Governance, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima,
Peru, roquespinozac@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-9815
* PhD in Public Management and Governance, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima,
Peru, respinoza22@ucvvirtual.edu.pe, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3669-7885
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entrevistas usando las guías de entrevista estructurada, cuyos resultados obtenidos van
a permitir que las autoridades y funcionarios ejecutar las medidas correctivas para que
la gestión administrativa y los procesos de adquisiciones se hagan con eficiencia y
transparencia. Los resultados permitieron conocer que no hubo interrelación entre las
fases de la gestión administrativa, no se cumplieron los plazos, las directivas o manuales
están desactualizadas, falta de monitoreo a sus procesos y su fiscalización, para lograr las
metas trazadas por la entidad con oportunidad.
Palabras clave: Gestión administrativa, proceso de adquisiciones, control.
INTRODUCTION
State procurement is carried out worldwide, and is done in different ways, especially in
the procedures and the legal framework that supports them. In this sense, Berriel (2011)
describes how procurement was carried out in Asia, basically in Hong Kong, Nepal and
South Korea, and finally concluded that with appropriate strategies significant changes
can be made, and that the personnel dedicated to corporate procurement should be
competent, specialized, professional and make use of all technologies, so that these
procurements are carried out with transparency. In Latin America, the Inter-American
Network of Government Procurement (RICG) is made up of more than 32 countries
that meet annually to unite all the procurement systems and evaluate whether the
innovations that have been implemented have achieved improvements in government
procurement in accordance with the legal, economic and social environment of each
American country.
In Peru the body that regulates state procurement is the Supervisory Body of State
Contracting, they act under the Law of State Contracting of January 9, 2016, Law No.
30225 - Law of State Contracting - (LCE) and its regulations in force since the Supreme
Decree No. 350-2015-EF.,with this regulation it is sought that all state entities apply the
law in a thorough way in the procurement processes, this will allow the acquisitions to
be made in a timely manner, under better conditions of prices, quality that ensure
transparency in each state entity, i.e. it is sought that the acquisitions are efficient, try to
end the acts of corruption. This study will allow the entity to correct and prevent its
officials from infringing and committing illicit acts when they make use of the state
contracting law, dictating measures and directives that will allow direct acquisitions, small
purchases, bids, etc., to be carried out properly, These measures and directives will
allow direct acquisitions, small purchases, bids, etc., to be carried out properly, for which
they must have control policies, carry out follow-ups with the purpose of improving the
procedures that are executed in the administrative management, achieve transparency,
in this way correcting all the errors will allow the entity to acquire goods and services
in the established terms, quality at lower prices for the benefit of the entity, these actions
cause the population to improve in their perception and distrust that have been earned
by the state entities. Likewise, the following previous international works have been
taken into account: the lack of proper budget planning has negative causes in state
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procurement due to personnel turnover, changes in public procurement rules, and
budget items are not properly used. Consequently, in order to execute the stages of
the contracts, it is necessary to plan the Annual Operational Plan and train the staff that
executes this programming, thus being able to effectively control and evaluate the
management. Corruption manages acquisitions and services on the awards that are made
where public officials at the highest level are colluded and are not punished, they enjoy
impunity, although they are the ones who benefit from these acts to the detriment of
the Mexican population, these vices are even in the regulations, Despite the fact that
there is knowledge, nothing is done to combat and correct these norms, it is worth
saying that there is no political will, he concludes that there are deficiencies regarding
public procurement, among them we have that there is no regulation and control, there
is no control of suppliers, there is no register, adequate guarantees are not required in
order to ensure that suppliers comply with what they offer. Finally, Rossi, Murillo and
Puente, (2002) in their article affirmed that there is no transparency and that corruption
must be fought, which acts in different ways, one of them is how public officials are
induced to act against the regulations, since they are given rewards to favor suppliers.
The results of this research allow us to visualize that if the administrative management
improves efficiently and has adequate information about the products it needs, it will
solve these corrupt and irregular activities in state purchases.
In relation to the previous national works, it was specified the weakness in the
information systems, monitoring should be carried out, allowing to evaluate the users,
due to the fact that it is not in accordance with the rules issued to manage the processes
within the deadlines, there is no articulation in the administrative areas which causes a
delay in the works, affecting the basic needs of the Institution. On the other hand,
Bocanegra, (2015) in his thesis, concluded that, internal control plays an essential role in
the processes in reference to the works executed by the district municipality of José
Crespo y Castillo of the Province of Leoncio Prado, as long as, an efficient control is
carried out, the risks to be evaluated and the tasks on managerial control will be of
benefit to the community.
Regarding the theoretical reference framework, the following categories have been
taken into account: administrative management and procurement of goods,
administrative management is a way of managing and directing a professional activity to
achieve the resources, the goals for its execution, that is, to organize the systems. In the
same way Münch, (2014) stated that administration has functions, the knowledge of
which is vital in order to apply the procedure, rules, techniques and management
handles. The following sub-categories were taken into account: planning, defined by
Münch, (2014) is how the processes and the direction taken by the entity are defined,
also how the products are made and their methods for their achievement. Similarly,
according to, Chiavenato (2017) planning is an administrative function that is done in
advance to know the objectives to be achieved, it is a model for the future. The sub-
category, organization, defined by Münch, (2014) is how a company is managed to
function in a simple way and that the processes have fluidity for those who work, here
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the functions, procedures, systems and categories are defined to achieve the objectives
of the company. The organization is a process where the structure of an organization is
defined. As for the subcategory management according to Münch, (2014) is the
execution of the stages of an administrative process by directing, guiding the assets, and
leading through the leader. On the other hand, it is the phase in which managers exert
influence among their collaborators to achieve the designed goals. Similarly, according
to Heredia and Fonseca, (2020) in this stage a collaborative management model should
also be considered, and in this way the worker is integrated to develop their functions.
Finally, the subcategory control, according to Münch, (2014) stated that control is the
stage where the rules are specified to evaluate the results whose objective is to detect
and correct what has been executed irregularly. On the other hand, control is defined
as measuring the actual results with respect to the plans, detecting errors and taking
corrective measures.
The category Assets refers to the resources required by the entity to fulfill its purposes
and meet its goals. Also, according to the United Nations Organization (UNO), goods
are things whether movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, and the vouchers that
certify the ownership of these assets. According to the contracting law, the
subcategories considered were the programming phase and preparatory acts, the needs
are determined, the PAC is approved, the institutional budget, the referential value is
determined, the types of selection process to be convened, the special committee is
appointed and here the bases are prepared and approved. The subcategory selection
phase, is where the bidding is convened, registered, questions are asked and how the
Committee resolves the consultations and observations, to then integrate the bidding
conditions, the bids are presented and reviewed and then the award of the bid is given.
Finally, the subcategory, the contractual phase, begins with the signing of the contract
until compliance and payment for the goods and services provided. This research was
carried out at INEI, based on the concepts of the goods and services category, and
analyzed and evaluated the employees of the logistics area, in the period from 2013 to
2018. Despite the fact that the state entities are governed by the same regulations, it
was possible to observe deficiencies such as those detailed, the documents of the
companies were not adequately reviewed, because some companies surprised with false
documentation to prove their experience, quotations were found from bidders who
were not of the item to be contracted, These shortcomings are detrimental to the entity
and therefore a series of controls should be implemented, as well as a review of obsolete
manuals and directives, so that employees can perform their duties in a transparent
manner.
As for the justification, the theoretical justification, in this study with the efficient
application of procurement regulations will allow the entity that its procurement is done
properly and avoid illegal acts, it is essential to follow up and control to improve
processes and the entity can have its goods in a timely manner and at prices according
to the market. The practical justification is to ensure that acquisitions are rigid, that all
errors are corrected, and that the entity implements strategies and controls for a better
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performance of its workers. Finally, the methodological justification, allowed a series of
approaches, techniques to obtain and achieve the objectives, according to the categories
of research, so that the results obtained serve for future research. Likewise, this
research contributes because according to the deficiencies found, it will allow the entity
to make improvements in its management from the planning of its processes, to
strengthen and lead its personnel, that they have the will for a culture of change, in this
way the institution will achieve its institutional goals.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The present work was of interpretative paradigm, for Heidegger, (2007) it is the study
of people's interpretations. The approach was qualitative defined by Cuenya and Ruetti,
(2010) because it investigates the phenomena that happen in their usual context, the
design used was the case study, which according to Atonal, (2020) is a very rigorous
method, because it seeks to explain how and why they happen, the method was
inductive, which according to Rodriguez and Perez, (2017) is analyzed from the particular
to the general. This research took place at INEI, the governing institution of the national
statistical system, with seven participants, including managers and personnel specialized
in the area of hiring.
As techniques for obtaining the data, the interview was used, which is a set of procedures
involving the interviewer and the interviewee; 19 open questions were used, while the
documentary analysis, according to Cunha (1989), is the review of the information
contained in the documentary sources; a documentary analysis matrix was used for the
respective analysis. The instruments used were the structured interview guide, which
contains the questions asked to the interviewee. The other instrument was the laws, in
this case of study, the contracting law and the budget law of each fiscal year.
Once the data from the interviews were collected, they were first coded, analyzed and
interpreted with a triangulation that allowed us to compare and later validate the results.
We worked with two categories: administrative management and goods and services;
the subcategories of administrative management were planning, organization, direction
and control, and the subcategories of goods and services were the programming phase
and preparatory acts, the selection phase and the contractual phase. In the present study
the scientific rigor was done with the recent regulations of the Universidad César
Vallejo, using credibility, confirmability and transferability, respecting the original
information without adulterating the information.
Finally, to carry out the analysis of the seven interviews that were transcribed,
categorized and codified, two emerging categories were obtained, and finally, the
triangulation of the data was carried out according to the explicitness of the qualitative
method.
RESULTS
This analysis is the product of triangulation (a method where 3 or more aspects or
different observers or different data sources are used).
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According to the general objective: To investigate the implications of administrative
management in the processes of procurement of goods and services at the National
Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The interviewees responded in a general way that
these implications occurred in the administrative management in the development of the
acquisition of goods and services due to a lack of coordination between the areas that
motivated the failure to meet the purposes, errors in the preparation of the tables of
needs due to lack of planning added to the deficiencies in the design and strategies, It is
also a priority to have updated functions and tasks with a new organizational manual of
functions, the entity must correct this anomaly there should be no unnamed positions
guidelines because there must be hierarchies and motivation to staff so that their work
is executed with honesty and transparency, those who infringe must be punished, control
in the entities is vital because it allows correcting errors through the recommendations
that are given, In this way we avoid any act of corruption, in the programming stage and
preparatory acts, delays in the processes must be corrected, price inquiries must be
carried out as indicated in the procurement regulations, this allows deficiencies to be
avoided and it is key that the procurement area has a staff with experience in the
procurement law and is continuously fed back with training, In the selection phase, the
Special Committee's overloaded work on certain occasions causes delays in the awarding
of contracts because they prioritize their activities, which is why the Committee should
be given support.
In the coding process resulting from the interview, two categories, training and
personnel selection, were found to be emergent, apart from the two a priori categories.
According to Parra, Rodríguez (2016), training is the process in which a company
encourages its personnel to learn and obtain skills and abilities so that they can develop
and increase their production in their work throughout the company. The participants
in the interview said that personnel must be trained continuously in contracting, civil or
criminal liability and control regulations, thus providing feedback, increasing and
standardizing strategies that allow for the development of activities for the benefit of the
company. These trainings are vital and important because in the face of constant changes
in the contracting law, the personnel working in the contracting area must be
continuously trained to improve their performance.
Personnel selection, according to Armijos, Bermúdez and Mora (2019), starts with the
definition of the mandatory criteria to fill an open position, in relation to the objectives
of the entity and the policies and programs to ensure the entry of suitable personnel; on
these bases the candidates are chosen. The interviewees said that the selection of
personnel is essential, it allows having personnel with experience, certified in contracting,
in order to fulfill their work in the supply area and it is important for the entity to have
suitable and motivated personnel for the benefit of the entity, to prevent the personnel
from leaving the institution, they must be granted adequate salary to have achievements
in the entity.
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The documentary analysis was made through the Contracting Law and its regulations, it
is likely that due to the poor performance of the personnel, mistakes are made as
described in the results, it is essential that the entity is supervised and fulfills its role. The
entity must supervise and monitor its employees so that their work is transparent. In
reference to the fiscal year budget law, this is based on the fact that the regulations
contemplate that all acquisitions made must have their respective budget and be included
in the Annual Contracting Plan that is prepared each year.
DISCUSSION
In this work, only the general objective will be carried out: To investigate the implications
of administrative management in the processes of procurement of goods and services in
the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, the interviewees stated that these
implications occurred because there was no coordination between areas, lack of
planning, providing the area with suitable personnel to carry out their work in a timely
manner and thus the institution meets its objectives. In this sense. On the other hand,
Navarrete, Reyna, Haro, García (2019) in their article argued that the entities need to
plan, control and evaluate, their work within their day and in this way the purposes of
the entity are achieved. Likewise, the interviewees mentioned that the directives and
the MOF need to be updated, and that the hierarchies and functions of the personnel
need to be established and ordered. On the other hand, the interviewees on prevention,
validation and correction agree that it is necessary that the recommendations made by
the control body should be implemented, thus avoiding acts of corruption, in this regard,
according to Bocanegra, (2015) stated that control has an essential role in the activities
of the entity, avoids risks and corrects what was done by the staff. In reference to the
table of needs, market study, approval of bases and call for bids, the interviewees said
that delays should be avoided, the study of prices should be carried out in accordance
with the procurement rules, regarding the consultation of observations, submission of
proposals, these should be made within the deadlines provided for that reason the
Special Committee should be strengthened and given the necessary support, contracts
should have follow-up and monitoring, to apply penalties when appropriate. In that
sense, Damian, (2018) in his research, argued, that there is weakness in the information
systems, because there is no follow-up according to the rules provided for these
processes, in the scheduled times. For an entity to be efficient in its management,
planning, organization, direction and control must be complied with, there must be an
interrelation, all obsolete directives or manuals must be changed, and there must be
personnel prepared to develop the goals set by the entity in a timely and effective
manner, for the benefit of the population.
CONCLUSIONS
Management stages must be interrelated, deadlines must be met, hierarchies must be
established, directives or manuals must be reviewed, processes must be monitored, and
specialized personnel must be available to achieve the goals set by the entity in a timely
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and efficient manner. It is recommended that the institution's authorities, especially the
contracting area, ensure that procurement processes are carried out in accordance with
the approved plans, and that the agencies involved supervise and make corrective actions
in a timely manner. The projects included in the Annual Procurement Plan are the ones
that cause many problems, there is an obsolete manual of functions, there is no follow-
up and monitoring of the processes as well as a subsequent audit, it is suggested to the
authorities to evaluate whether in the future they will sign agreements with new
processes to avoid what is happening in the entity, also urgently implement a new manual
of functions according to the current reality, finally the authorities must implement a
control system, supervise the processes that everything offered is in accordance with
the contract.
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