• Augustine Ohene Adu
• Jannat Abass
• Kyei Fosu Patrick

The built environment accounts for a sizable amount of a nation's investments, but if it is not properly maintained, the vast sums of money spent on building infrastructure could be wasted. Therefore, maintaining these infrastructure, which include the buildings of public universities, is crucial if they are to fulfill their intended purposes. The primary objective of every maintenance strategy adopted in buildings is to preserve the structural, functional, and its aesthetic state. It is interesting to note how previous studies have focused on maintenance practices in Ghana but failed considerably to investigate the criteria for procurement of maintenance services adopted by public organisations particularly public. In a bid to filling this gap, this study seeks to evaluate the criteria used in preparing building maintenance service procurement in public universities. The study used a cross-sectional survey involving 40 facilities and maintenance officers from the public universities in Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study concludes that, public universities within Ashanti Region in most cases adopt the Hybrid Approach of maintenance services delivery. This however worked within an outsourced to in-house staff ratio of 1:4. The study further revealed that, criteria such as the need to focus on core business; staffing flexibility, expertise and work quality were influential in the preparation of the maintenance procurement strategy of the Universities. The study further revealed that, the criteria considered in the preparation of the maintenance service procurement strategy has improved access to labour, the quality and reliability of maintenance services, and improved response to emergency maintenance. The study recommends a repetition of this research in all the public universities nationwide to obtain rounded view of the criteria considered by these universities in the preparation of their maintenance service procurement strategy for the execution of maintenance works.

Procurement Criteria, Building Maintenance Services, Ashanti Region, Ghana

"EVALUATION OF CRITERIA FOR PROCUREMENT OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE SERVICES IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN ASHANTI REGION, GHANA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no.o607-o631, April-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404F86.pdf

"EVALUATION OF CRITERIA FOR PROCUREMENT OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE SERVICES IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN ASHANTI REGION, GHANA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no. ppo607-o631, April-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404F86.pdf