Indicator C2 — Awards Very Close to the Budget Ceiling

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Awards Very Close to the Budget Ceiling

Contract cost is at or above 99.5% of ABC from Sumbong.

This is a statistical anomaly or indicator worth examining — not proof of wrongdoing, fraud, or corruption against any person.

Indicator: contract 24BE0016 was awarded at 99.99% of its ABC. Across its 37 recorded contracts, EGB CONST CORP FORMERLY: EGB CONST was awarded at ≥99.5% of ABC 36 times (97.3%), versus 70.4% for flood-control contracts overall. This may be due to highly competitive bidding where the winning bidder offered just below the ABC.

Public record entityConstruction of Flood Mitigation Structure along Cagayan River - Phase II, Barangay Alibagu, City of Ilagan, Isabela

LocationILAGAN CITY (CAPITAL) (ISABELA), ISABELA, Region IIContract 24BE0016

Amount₱139,905,104.4099.99% of approved budget (ABC) sumbong source

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Satellite before / after

Esri Wayback · ~0.5 mLocation approximate

Before capture: 2019-02-22 · Maxar

After capture: 2025-06-15 · Vantor

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How this was checked

publish · confidence 0.98

Model: gpt-4.1

Prompt: v4

Checked: October 22, 2026

The contract was awarded at 99.99% of its ABC, which is highly unusual and well above the 99.5% threshold. The contractor has an extremely high rate (97.3%) of contracts awarded at or above 99.5% of ABC, much higher than the baseline for flood-control contracts (70.4%). All relevant figures and record links are present, and the evidence is sufficient for public review.

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Project completion

Schedule fields from DPWH transparency portal records and the Sumbong sa Pangulo flood-control list — not inferred beyond those columns.

Reported complete (DPWH): 1Ongoing: 0Delayed: 0Status unknown: 0

Project	Prog.	Target end	Actual end	Days late	Status
Construction of Flood Mitigation Structure along Cagayan River - Phase II, Barangay Alibagu, City of Ilagan, Isabela24BE0016Flood control	100%	February 6, 2025	December 15, 2024	—	completedsumbong source

Start: February 14, 2024 · Source fetched October 21, 2026

Rule Definition

ContractCost / ABC ≥ 0.995 using metadata.abc and contract cost fields.

Triggering Data & citations

Contract cost is at or above 99.5% of approved budget for contract (ABC)

{
  "deo": "Isabela 1st District Engineering Office",
  "ratio": 0.9998578123994998,
  "abcPhp": 139925000,
  "threshold": 0.995,
  "contractId": "24BE0016",
  "contractor": "EGB CONST CORP FORMERLY: EGB CONST",
  "contractCostPhp": 139905104.4
}

Source documents

sumbong — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rukku/sumbongsapangulo.ph-datasets/main/flood_control_projects.geojsonFetched October 21, 2026

Possible Innocent Explanations

Accurate cost estimating
Single qualified bid at market rate
ABC set equal to engineer’s estimate
This may be due to highly competitive bidding where the winning bidder offered just below the ABC.