Effects of ICT Adoption on Procurement Performance in Government Ministries in Rwanda : Case of Ministry of Health

ICT adoption will help change the role of the procurement, from a transaction-oriented function to be more managerial one that focuses on improving efficiency, effectiveness and provide a User-Friendly Platforms to Input Data for enhanced procurement in government ministries and thereby eradicate the prevalent problems associated with manual practice in disseminating procurement services which is highly desired in enhancing ministry performance. Many of the government ministries have not fully adopted ICT as a strategy for improving procurement performance. This study investigated the effects of ICT adoption on procurement performance in Government Ministries in Rwanda. Specific objectives for the study included; to determine the effect of ICT applications on procurement performance of Rwanda ministry of health, to assess the effect of individual user factors on procurement performance of Rwanda ministry of health and to determine the effect of environment on procurement performance of Rwanda ministry of health. This study adopted a descriptive research design. Both primary and secondary data was used in the study. A total of 472 employees of the Ministry of Health formed the target population of this study. Though stratified random sampling a sample size of 218 respondents was determined using Yamane’s formula. This study used questionnaire as the data collection tool which consisted of both open and closed questions. Descriptive statistics was achieved through descriptive analysis to generate frequencies and percentages of various variables. Inferential statistics was done through Pearson correlation analysis to determine if they exist any relationship between the variables. Further linear regression was carried out to determine the percentage change in Procurement performance that could be attributed to ICT adoption. From the findings correlation analysis indicated that there is a positive significant relation between  procurement performance and ICT adoption (r=0.757 p .The findings also showed that holding ICT applications, individual factors and environmental factors  to a constant zero, procurement performance would  be 0.218, a unit increase in ICT applications would lead to increase in procurement performance by a factor of 0.339, a unit increase in individual factors would lead to increase in procurement performance by a factor of 0.392 and also unit increase in environmental factors would lead to increase in procurement performance by a factor of 0.443. These predictions indicate that all the three independent variables studied would together lead to a significant improvement in procurement performance in the ministry of health. Thus, the study recommends that organization should embrace the adoption of ICT as a strategy for improving procurement performance.