In this informational age, the importance of information technology has continued to grow with more and more firms turning to invest in IT projects. These projects are aimed at streamlining the firms’ operations and deliver value to the clients in the organization. A well executed IT project has the capacity of improving a firm’s performance, reducing delivery time and responding promptly to the needs of the customers. IT has continued to play an integral part in the operations of the healthcare sector. The essay that follows will discuss the procurement process in the healthcare sector, looking at the present challenges and possible solutions to these challenges. For some time now, Canadians have been accustomed to receiving all the services they need through a network that records their preferences and delivers the services in a more personalized and friction-free way (Card, 2012). The computing devices and networks used to deliver on the services has afforded all parties involved the convenience that is key to competitive pricing and efficiency (Card, 2012). This has seen most of the services offered to the public becoming scheduled, efficient and tailored to match the taste needs, and preferences of the clients. The same expectation has since been placed on the healthcare system with clients hoping that the practitioners in the industry will also adopt IT as a way of improving service delivery. The use of IT in the healthcare industry is poised to make the industry become efficient, competitive, and more accessible to the clients. IT can be used in the healthcare industry to handle logistics, propagate better practices, and handle communications, logistics, and scheduling. Additionally, the practitioners in the field can also use ICT to automate referrals, for reporting, for delivery, purchase, scheduling appointments, and tracking events. These benefits of an IT system point out at the need for the implementation or adoption of an IT system in the health sector. However, attempts made to introduce IT systems in hospitals have faced challenges which range from time delays, cost-overruns, and suboptimal service results (Card, 2012). The failures in IT system implementation in large hospitals can be attributed to factors that include failure to fully utilize project management tools, lack of proper planning and scoping before embarking on the project, lack of a shift in mind set, and project implementation prior to drawing up a proper plan. These It implementations are often capital intensive and as thus proper planning and scoping must be employed to ensure that public funds are not sunk and wasted on projects that will fail to take root. Evidently, all these failures can be traced back to the public procurement process (Whitt, 2012). Luckily, the solutions to the problems bedeviling IT procurement in healthcare lie within the confines of the public procurement process. Simply put, once the failures are addressed, then and only then will the IT system stand strong and stable. According to Whitt (2012), procurement systems comprise of rules that define the systems specifications and then floats these specifications in the tendering or bidding market to find suppliers that can supply the systems. The bidding process is open, competitive, disciplined, and controlled. Fair and reasonable prices emanate from that competitive bidding process. Misapplication of the rules that govern the procuremen