Dataset of Focus Group Discussion Result from respondent: Emerging Procurement Competenciesfrom the Perspective of Boundary Role Persons in the Indonesian Context

The change in procurement methods from manual to digital should be expected to improve the competence of procurement officers; however, in reality, there are still many problems that indicate the low competence of procurement officials. Although there has been much research on digital procurement, there has not been a detailed explanation of what procurement officials feel and what competencies must be possessed to carry out procurement. For this reason, this qualitative study involving 12 procurement officials was conducted to explore what pain and pleasure procurement officials feel and what competencies they need. All structured and FGD interview data were transcribed and analyzed using a narrative approach. Then, the data is analyzed using inductive thematic analysis through four stages, from understanding the story to constructing a theme according to the research objectives. The novelty is that there are three main themes found in this research: pain, pleasure, and procurement competence. Procurement problems are perceived as changes in procurement rules and complexity, conflicts and violations, operational constraints and challenges. There are three procurement pleasures: job satisfaction and reward, conscientious work, effectiveness, rule compliance, and satisfactory results. It has also been found that procurement competence is divided into two sub-themes: core competency and support competency. Support for competency can be divided into firm and warm attitudes. The limitation of this study is that researchers only used triangulation methodology, but did not use triangulation of sources and researchers; therefore, the data and validity will be enriched if applied.