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 22HK0044 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. It is possible that the winning bid simply matched the ABC exactly, which is allowed under procurement rules.

Public record entityReconstruction of Tugas-Polo Seawall, Tanjay City, Negros Oriental

LocationCITY OF TANJAY (NEGROS ORIENTAL), NEGROS ORIENTAL, Region VIIContract 22HK0044

Amount₱67,550,000.00100.00% 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 · ~0.5 mLocation approximate

Before capture: 2019-01-18 · Maxar

After capture: 2025-10-31 · Vantor

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% of the ABC, which is unusual and meets the rule's threshold. The supporting evidence is complete, with contract IDs and source URLs provided. The high rate of near-ABC awards by this contractor is also statistically significant compared to the baseline. There is no indication of a data artifact.

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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
Reconstruction of Tugas-Polo Seawall, Tanjay City, Negros Oriental22HK0044Flood control	100%	November 9, 2022	November 9, 2022	—	completedsumbong source

Start: February 18, 2022 · 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": "Negros Oriental 2nd District Engineering Office",
  "ratio": 1,
  "abcPhp": 67550000,
  "threshold": 0.995,
  "contractId": "22HK0044",
  "contractor": "QM BUILDERS",
  "contractCostPhp": 67550000
}

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