Abstract:
The main objective of the study is to determine the effects of outsourcing strategy on
procurement performance among Universities in Kenya. The study found that contracting,
comprehensive outsourcing, licensing agreement and selective outsourcing strategies were
main determinants of procurement performance of universities in Kenya. The target population
was all university (66) entities in Kenya while the sample population was 336 respondents. This
study collected both primary and secondary data. Data was analyzed using the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21, due to its ability to predict for identifying
groups such as factor analysis, descriptive statistics, cross tabulation, frequencies, as well as
bivariate statistics such as Means, ANOVA and Correlation tests. The study recommend that
universities should put more emphasis on training and information sharing in order to improve
procurement performance, all procurement process should be automated so as to reduce the
error rates and discrepancies in the process and align their procurement procedures to Public
Procurement and Disposal Act since efficient procurement process could be used as
competitive advantage.