Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Hilario, Jessie Josuah P. |
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| Resource Title | Restoring trust by design: procureguard PH - a blockchain-and-AI procurement transparency prototype for the Philippines |
| Date Issued | 4 June 2026 |
| Abstract | Philippine public procurement has operated under a robust legal framework since Republic Act No. 9184 of 2003, updated by Republic Act No. 12009 of 2024. Yet the 2025 flood control investigations, which identified approximately 421 ghost projects out of roughly 8,000 national-government infrastructure projects inspected, confirmed that procurement irregularities at scale persist not because of missing rules but because of missing integration: procurement records, audit findings, tax filings, contractor licensing status, and disqualification notices sit in five separate institutional systems that cannot be aligned in real time. This capstone study applies Design Science Research methodology to design, build, and evaluate ProcureGuard PH, a blockchain-anchored, AI-augmented procurement transparency prototype that unifies these silos into a single citizen-accessible, tamper-evident platform. The study is guided by three research questions covering systemic gap analysis and the Senate Bill No. 1506 (CADENA Bill) legislative response, vendor qualification and eligibility enforcement through blockchain and artificial intelligence, and the prototype’s role as a demonstration vehicle for procurement transparency policy institutionalization. ProcureGuard PH implements five role-based modules, an append-only SHA-256 chained ledger, a Vendor Qualification and Eligibility Enforcement Module operationalizing the complete twelve-document RA 12009 eligibility framework including ledger-anchored NFCC computation that verifies government contract obligations across participating procuring entities, a rule-based analytics layer with seven implemented and six designed extension rules (two rule types actively firing in the current demonstration dataset), and an AI-augmented analytics layer. Walkthrough self-evaluation confirms substantial coverage of design requirements derived from the three-lens conceptual framework. Practitioner expert evaluation was conducted via Focused Gr |
| Degree Course | Master of Technology Management |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Blockchain; Public procurement; Transparency; Design Science research; Philippines; CADENA Bill; Artificial intelligence; Tamper-evident ledger; Vendor qualification; Procurement integrity |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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