By: Alan John Maristela Alilano

The IT industry has come a long way to its existing shape where it is playing a very dominant role in our sphere of life. It has made revolutionary changes in information gathering and dissemination as well as in global communication. The advancement in the field of information technology helped many people in terms of storing, retrieving, transmitting information, and in communicating. Today, people are still looking for ways and inventing things that will benefit those in the future generation.

At present, the figures being presented at Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) is too technical that the public is having difficulties in understanding its contents.

With such findings, the researchers believed that a well-managed, web-based, Open Contracting Data Standard(OCDS)-based, Monitoring System that uses data visualization can improve the current state on how the taxpaying public understand the procurement process of the Philippines.

The proposed SeeLog: OCDS Based Procurement Portal will provide the compliance checking of the documents of the tendered items/services. A module will also be provided by the researchers that will mark low-rated procurement transactions for future investigation. The public, on the other hand, will be provided by a Freedom wall where they can show their thoughts and comments. The module will also track the complaints sent by the general public and send it to the concerned parties as feedback mechanisms.

Note: SeeLog is developed by graduating Bicol University IT Students, as interns, under Layertech Software Labs and Bicol University partnership for the OCDEx Project.

 The next step would be a pilot phase, integration to live OCDEx portal.