Genmaries Entredicho-Caong, Executive Director of the Procurement Service, Department of Budget and Management, Government of Philippines
Genmaries S. Entredicho-Caong is the current Executive Director V of the Procurement Service - Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM). Prior to becoming the Executive Director V, she was the Procurement Group Director of the PS-DBM. She has a general work experience of almost 24 years devoted to legal, development work, and technical advisory services. She has a rich experience on public procurement using international-donor financed guidelines, as well as the Philippine procurement law.
She is an integral part of the PS-DBM team that proposed new provisions for the New Government Procurement Act (NGPA) and was a member of the Technical Working Group for the NGPA bills in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In addition, she led PS-DBM’s entry to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Challenge competition, a ground-breaking program that enhanced openness and citizen engagement, and promoted open government reforms. At the OGP Global Summit 2025 held in Spain, the initiative won in two major categories – PS-DBM’s commitment to “improving data availability, interoperability, and public participation in procurement” emerged as the Overall Winner in the Anti-corruption category, and Winner for the Best Entry in the Asia and the Pacific Region – National Level category.
Prior to joining PS-DBM, she was a Consultant of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), acting as Procurement and Legal Specialist of ADB for its various projects in the Philippines, supporting different government implementing agencies. Genmaries was also World Bank’s Consultant for the Government Procurement Policy Board-Technical Support Office (GPPB-TSO), in their Professionalization and Capacity Development of Procurement Practitioners Project, and in the review, updating and harmonization of the Philippine Bidding Documents and the Generic Procurement Manuals with the 2016 Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 9184 in 2016.
Genmaries has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and a holder of Certificates in Public Procurement/ Levels 2 and 3 from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and United Nations Development Program. She also obtained her Bachelor of Arts Major in Legal Management degree from UST (cum laude).
