Sustainable public procurement and supply chain competitiveness of Federal Universities in Nigeria

This study investigated the linkage between sustainable public procurement and supply chain competitiveness within the context of federal universities in Nigeria. The study adopted the explanatory research design. The population of the study consist of sixty- two federal universities operating in Nigeria. To ensure proper coverage of the universities, one respondent was drawn from each of the universities for the survey, thereby making a total of 62 respondents. A self- administered questionnaire served as the research instrument. The data was analyzed using the Spearman’s rank correlation statistics with the aid of statistical package for social science version 25.0. The result of the analysis showed that a significant and positive relationship exist between sustainable public procurement and measures of supply chain competitiveness (innovativeness, cost reduction and optimal resource utilization) of federal universities in Nigeria. The study concluded that sustainable public procurement has significant and positive relationship with supply chain competitiveness of federal universities in Nigeria. The study therefore, recommended that procurement directors of federal universities should adopt sustainable procurement as a strategy to boost supply chain competitiveness in terms of innovativeness, cost reduction and optimal resource utilization, while also improving performance.