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 23HO0070 was awarded at 100.00% of its ABC. Across its 88 recorded contracts, QM BUILDERS was awarded at ≥99.5% of ABC 84 times (95.5%), versus 70.4% for flood-control contracts overall. This could be due to precise cost estimation or competitive bidding that exactly matches the ABC.

Public record entityConstruction of Revetment Wall with Rechannelling Works along Polo River (Upstream), Alcantara, Cebu

LocationALCANTARA (CEBU), CEBU, Region VIIContract 23HO0070

Amount₱48,605,990.17100.00% of approved budget (ABC) sumbong source

Only contractors and government agencies named in public procurement records are shown. Private individuals are not named.

Satellite before / after

Esri Wayback · ~0.46 m

Before capture: 2018-06-04 · Maxar

After capture: 2018-06-04 · Vantor

No imagery since construction began — latest capture 2018-06-04

Satellite comparison for public reference — not proof of completion or non-completion.

Imagery may not show small or linear works; no visible change is not evidence of wrongdoing.

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Caveats & resolution

Esri World Imagery Wayback (~0.5–1 m); dates are archive release dates, not capture timestamps.
Imagery may not show small or linear works; no visible change is not evidence of wrongdoing.
DPWH coordinates can be approximate; marker shows the imagery center (may be snapped to riverbank/coast).

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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 exactly 100.00% of its ABC, which is highly unusual and above the legal threshold. The contractor has an extremely high rate (95.5%) of winning contracts 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 verifiable.

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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 Revetment Wall with Rechannelling Works along Polo River (Upstream), Alcantara, Cebu23HO0070	100%	October 10, 2023	August 17, 2023	—	completedsumbong source

Start: March 6, 2023 · 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": "Cebu 7th District Engineering Office",
  "ratio": 0.9999948224756632,
  "abcPhp": 48606241.83,
  "threshold": 0.995,
  "contractId": "23HO0070",
  "contractor": "QM BUILDERS",
  "contractCostPhp": 48605990.17
}

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 could be due to precise cost estimation or competitive bidding that exactly matches the ABC.