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The shape of the system

The Office keeps one thing of its own: the record of what it assessed and what it decided. Everything else — the project, the contract, the money, the company — belongs to a system that already exists, and is read rather than copied.

What the Office reads, and what it holds Four external systems of record feed the Office. The Office holds cases, assessments, decisions and certificates, and publishes a verification service. projects contracts money ownership Integrated Bank of ProjectsThe statutory project registerMinistry of Finance GHANEPSTenders, awards, suppliers, pricesPublic Procurement Authority GIFMISCommitments, payments, retentionController and Accountant-General Registrar of CompaniesBeneficial owners and directorsOffice of the Registrar The Office’s own recordCases, assessments, decisions,certificates and the audit trailThe only thing held here as a mastercopy
What the Office reads, and what it holds

Reading rather than copying has one consequence worth stating plainly: the Office never writes to any of these systems. It cannot correct a project record, cancel an award or release a payment. Where a decision needs to reach the procurement system, that is a separate agreed interface and the procurement system acts on it. The Office supplies the truth; it does not enforce it.

What the Office publishes

One thing, deliberately: a public check that a certificate is genuine. Given a certificate number it returns the status, the dates it is valid between, and the scope — the project, the entity, the value ceiling. It returns no reasons, no evidence and nobody's name. Confirming that a certificate is real should not require disclosing the file behind it, and an approving authority holding one has no account here.