Indicator A1 — DepEd/DOH Award Far Above Office Peers

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DepEd/DOH Award Far Above Office Peers

A PhilGEPS award is at least 50× the median of the same office's awards in the same business category and year.

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

Indicator: GOV. CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER awarded ₱67.51M to ZUELLIG PHARMA CORPORATION for 'Ceftolozane /Tazobactam 1.5G' (2025-07-14), 189.3× the median of its 56 'Drugs and Medicines' awards in 2025 (₱356,656). PhilGEPS records do not list quantities, so order size cannot be compared. This may reflect a bulk purchase of an expensive or specialized medicine not routinely procured in large quantities.

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

How this was checked

publish · confidence 0.92

Model: gpt-4.1

Prompt: agency-v1

Checked: October 22, 2026

The award is for a specific drug (Ceftolozane /Tazobactam 1.5G) and is 189.3× the median of the office's other 'Drugs and Medicines' awards in 2025, with 56 peer awards. The title does not indicate a consolidated, annual, or framework procurement, nor does it describe a different class of goods or a construction/renovation project. The peer titles are all routine drug purchases. The evidence is complete and the anomaly is clear per the rule.

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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.

Completion schedule is shown for project and contractor flags only.

Rule Definition

Compares each DepEd/DOH award with the median of the same procuring office, PhilGEPS business category and year (≥15 peer awards, award ≥₱20M). Reviewers reject cases where the title explains the scale (annual or consolidated supply, major equipment, works).

Triggering Data & citations

Award of ₱67,508,690 is 189× the median of the 56 'Drugs and Medicines' awards by GOV. CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER in 2025 (₱356,656).

{
  "award": {
    "url": "/agency-awards/2d3f91f0-eefe-4376-b1c1-fe9f855415d5",
    "title": "Ceftolozane /Tazobactam 1.5G",
    "office": "GOV. CELESTINO GALLARES MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER",
    "awardId": "2d3f91f0-eefe-4376-b1c1-fe9f855415d5",
    "awardee": "ZUELLIG PHARMA CORPORATION",
    "amountPhp": 67508689.9,
    "awardDate": "2025-07-14",
    "referenceId": null,
    "businessCategory": "Drugs and Medicines"
  },
  "basis": "office_category_year",
  "peers": 56,
  "ratio": 189.3,
  "medianPhp": 356655.75
}

Source documents

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

Possible Innocent Explanations

A single consolidated or annual procurement can legitimately dwarf routine purchases in the same category.
This may reflect a bulk purchase of an expensive or specialized medicine not routinely procured in large quantities.