Keywords: Management, Procurement System
This study aimed to determine the management of the procurement system in the DPWH, Camarines Sur 1 st and 2 nd Engineering Districts, C?Y 2000. It answer the following specific questions: 1) What is the procurement system in DPWH 1 st engineering district?; 2)What is the level of the procurement system along acquisition, storage/ warehousing and inventory?; 3) What perceived professional and organization factors affect the level of efficiency of the procurement system?
Descriptive- evaluation method was used to determine the extent of management of the procurement system at DPWH, c/y 2000. The 48 respondents involved in this study were the officials and employees who were directly involved in this study were the officials and employees who were directly involved with procurement in the two engineering districts.
Major conclusions were: 1) The procurement system practiced by DPWH was the one mandated; 2) Procurement functions such as inspection, acceptance and actual procurement were very efficiently managed; while planning, compliance with APP and pricing were only efficiently managed; Recording and issuing were the one's very efficiently managed warehousing functions; while provision of storage space, arrangement pf stored items and enforcement of warehousing guidelines were rated efficiently managed only; on inventory, only reconciliation of accounting and property records of semi-expendable property, physical inventory taking and reporting were rated very efficiently managed; 3) Personal factors strongly influenced on the level of efficiency of the procurement system; organizational factors highly influenced the management of procurement system.