COMPARISON OF EXISTING LEVEL OF E-PROCUREMENT PRACTICES IN PUBLIC SECTOR CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS AND CONTRACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF SINDH

Construction industry is evolving amid the fourth industrial revolution.Transportation, commerce, manufacturing and many other industries ripened the current technological advancement and are striving to utilise every development in the it sector.The procurement of construction works is known to be very conventional and backward in the adoption of digitalisation.The construction industry's procurement and supply chain are blamed for the most inflated cost of construction projects, mainly attributed to a lack of transparency and trust between the industry stakeholders.This research explores the challenges of eprocurement adoption in the industry and identifies the potential opportunities for its usage.The aim of this research to compare the existing level of e-procurement practices in public sector client organizations and contractors in the construction industry of Pakistan.SPSS software was used to interpret the collected data.according to the existing level of e-procurement practices in public sector client organizations and contractors in the construction industry of Sindh; highest standard deviation is of what kind of function of software is used in your organization i.e. 1.889 and lowest standard deviation is are you aware from supplier registration catalogue purchasing i.e. 0.570.the dependability of the findings gleaned from the respondents was examined using the cronbach's alpha values.the data collected from respondent's responses have a cronbach's alpha value of 0.708.