Abstract: This paper assessed the e-procurement adoption and procurement process, a case of District hospitals in Rwanda . This was guided by three specific objectives: to establish the extent of ICT applications on the District’s hospitals procurement processes; to determine the challenges of e-procurement adoption on the procurement processes in District hospitals in Rwanda; to determine relationship between the individual factors and Procurement process in District hospitals in Rwanda. The target population of the study was comprised of 54 employees of District hospitals in Rwanda. The study used a purposive sampling technique. With purposive sampling technique as a type of non-probability sampling, the researcher uses his /her own judgment about which respondents to choose, and picks only those who meet the purpose of the study.Through structured questionnaires,the researcher was able to collect primary data. Secondary data were collected from relevant literature review, business magazines, journals, internet and other relevant materials. The study revealed that for 87.5% respondents, no relation were between procurement officers and Government suppliers.The study also revealed that 75% of respondents agreed to have received products of good quality at lower costs.The study found that majority of the respondents acknowledged that ICT applications like e –procurement in use in the District Hospitals had influenced the procurement processes. In regards to finding out the relationship between individual factors and procurement process the study finds that the relationship between the individual factors and Procurement process in District hospitals in Rwanda it was revealed that there is a positive relationship between human resource comptency in e-procurement and performance of contractors since r= .220, with p-value of 0.001 which is less than 0.01 as the significance level. The major challenge found in the study was that of High introduction costs for new solutions such as access to bandwidth and enterprise resource management systems that are key to implementing e-business. Organizations willing to implement e-procurement should therefore invest into structures and processes necessary for e-procurement implemention. Finally, the research found that for ICT to be easily implemented, information systems have to be set up by all players in the procurement procedures, structures will have to be invested on and processes standardized. system in their procurement processes.
Keywords: E-Procurement:, ICT applications, Procurement/ Procuring Procurement process.
Title: E-PROCUREMENT ADOPTION AND PROCUREMENT ROCESS IN RWANDA: A CASE OF MUHIMA, SHYIRA, REMERA-RUKOMA
Author: BEATA KAMAYIRESE, Dr. GAMARIEL MBONIMANA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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