Indicator A3 — Awards Clustered Just Under the Small Value Procurement Ceiling

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Awards Clustered Just Under the Small Value Procurement Ceiling

3+ awards from one office to one supplier within 30 days, each 85–100% of the SVP ceiling, combined above it.

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

Indicator: 3 awards from GOVERNOR CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL to XYMED MEDICAL ENTERPRISE between 2023-04-18 and 2023-05-09 were each between 85% and 100% of the ₱1.00M Small Value Procurement ceiling then in force (2016 Revised IRR of RA 9184, Annex H), totalling ₱2.94M. Worth checking whether they were separate requirements. The hospital may have had separate urgent needs for different types of medical supplies, leading to multiple purchases close together.

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How this was checked

publish · confidence 0.95

Model: gpt-4.1

Prompt: agency-v1

Checked: October 22, 2026

All three awards are for medical supplies, are from the same hospital to the same supplier, are within 21 days, and each is just below the Small Value Procurement ceiling. The titles describe related but distinct items (maternity kit, newborn kit, syringes), but all are routine hospital supply purchases and could plausibly have been procured together. This fits the A3 rule's intent: the pattern is that similar routine goods were split into several near-ceiling awards. There is no evidence of a data artifact or that these are unrelated requirements for different end users.

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Rule Definition

SVP ceiling in force on the award date: ₱500,000 (2009 IRR of RA 9184, Annex H), ₱1,000,000 (2016 Revised IRR, Annex H), ₱2,000,000 (IRR of RA 12009, Sec. 34). Splitting contracts to avoid competitive bidding is prohibited under the IRR.

Triggering Data & citations

3 awards from GOVERNOR CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL to XYMED MEDICAL ENTERPRISE between 2023-04-18 and 2023-05-09, each between 85% and 100% of the ₱1,000,000 Small Value Procurement ceiling, totalling ₱2,941,000.

{
  "awards": [
    {
      "url": "/agency-awards/a670eda6-5d83-406b-8c24-24924ce177e1",
      "title": "Syringe 10mL, luer lock tip with with built in saf",
      "office": "GOVERNOR CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL",
      "awardId": "a670eda6-5d83-406b-8c24-24924ce177e1",
      "awardee": "XYMED MEDICAL ENTERPRISE",
      "amountPhp": 986000,
      "awardDate": "2023-04-18",
      "referenceId": null,
      "businessCategory": "Medical Supplies and Laboratory Instrument"
    },
    {
      "url": "/agency-awards/121916dd-e1c4-45a8-9a28-42bd0b1c76b9",
      "title": "Maternity Kit",
      "office": "GOVERNOR CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL",
      "awardId": "121916dd-e1c4-45a8-9a28-42bd0b1c76b9",
      "awardee": "XYMED MEDICAL ENTERPRISE",
      "amountPhp": 975000,
      "awardDate": "2023-04-18",
      "referenceId": null,
      "businessCategory": "Medical Supplies and Laboratory Instrument"
    },
    {
      "url": "/agency-awards/54e5451a-62a8-4bf2-bf35-e928df6d85a1",
      "title": "Newborn Kit 1 - cloth bag with loop handle that c",
      "office": "GOVERNOR CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL",
      "awardId": "54e5451a-62a8-4bf2-bf35-e928df6d85a1",
      "awardee": "XYMED MEDICAL ENTERPRISE",
      "amountPhp": 980000,
      "awardDate": "2023-05-09",
      "referenceId": null,
      "businessCategory": "Medical Supplies and Laboratory Instrument"
    }
  ],
  "totalPhp": 2941000,
  "ceilingPhp": 1000000,
  "ceilingUrl": "https://www.gppb.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Updated-2016-Revised-IRR-of-RA-No.-9184-as-of-19-July-2024.pdf",
  "windowDays": 30,
  "ceilingCitation": "2016 Revised IRR of RA 9184, Annex H — SVP ceiling ₱1,000,000 for NGAs"
}

Source documents

philgeps — https://huggingface.co/datasets/bettergovph/philgeps-data/resolve/main/philgeps.parquetFetched October 21, 2026

Possible Innocent Explanations

Separate requisitions from different schools/units or recurring needs can fall near the ceiling legitimately; splitting is prohibited only when done to avoid competitive bidding.