Records Management and Procurement Performance

Records are a valuable business asset. They are the lifeblood of the organisation’s businesses and therefore should be treated with the utmost concern. One of the key ways organizations are held accountable for their actions is through evidence of business transactions in the form of records. Records and Archives provide platform to access information about the past by researchers scholars students journalists lawyers and others who want to know about people places and events in that happened in the past. Without an organized records and archives management framework there is a deficit in information access created. Such deficit contributes to inadequate and improper decision making within organisational and national establishments. To avert the crisis information provision and attention to records and archives management preservation and conservation of archival materials need to be anchored in with effective legislative and policy frameworks. Therefore this research focused on the influence that records management had on procurement performance.