Information technology is the backbone for all 21st century organizations that are looking forward to offer better customer service and gain competitive advantage. Today, blockchain technology is being adopted by a number of organizations such as financial services, healthcare, agriculture and even government. . However, the tendering sector have not been able to take advantage of the new blockchain technology, owing to the absence of blockchain based frameworks and a model for secure tendering. This study focuses on block-chain with its BYOE (Bring Your Own Encryption) concept in the procurement sector. The research comes up with a design of a blockchain based smart contract model for organizations in Kenya following ASD approach. In addition a discussion of challenges and opportunities of Blockchain based tendering is also presented.
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Title = "A Design of Blockchain Based Smart Contract for Tendering",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research (IJCATR)",
Volume = "10",
Issue ="10",
Pages ="222 - 225",
Year = "2021",
Authors ="Denies Kiyeng, Simon Maina Karume, Nelson Masese"}