PBBM bares list of top contractors for P545 billion flood control projects

 

Marcos vows to go after anyone who misused govt funds for flood control

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr held a rare press conference Monday to announce the top 15 construction firms awarded flood control contracts worth a total of P545 billion during his first three years in office, and hinted at repercussions for those found to have performed shoddy work or committed anomalies.

He pointed out that the 15 construction firms collectively received 20% of the entire budget for 10,000 projects from 2022 to 2025, or Php109 billion. That meant each company received roughly P7.27 billion each

The remaining Php436 billion was distributed among 2,391 othe winning contractors, for an average of Php182 million for each company.

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The 15 top constructions firms based on the amount of contracts they bagged from the government were:

1.     Legacy Construction Corporation

2.     Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Development Corp

3.     St Timothy Construction Corporation

4.     QM Builders

5.     EGB Construction Corporation

6.     Topnotch Catalyst Builders Inc

7.     Centerways Construction and Development Inc

8.     Sunwest, Inc

9.     Hi-Tone Construction & Development Corp

10.  Triple B Construction & Supply Inc

11.  Royal Crown Monarch Construction & Supplies Corp

12.  Wawao Builders

13.  MG Samidan Construction

14.  L.R. Tiqui Builders, Inc

15.  Road Edge Trading & Development Services

Marcos however, begged off from disclosing the names of people behind the firms and their possible connections to people in government, for now.

“We are going to keep going. This is something that is, I think, absolutely necessary. We have to clean our ranks. It might be a little painful. Some people close to us might get dragged into this. But if they are close to me, the people are closer to my heart and we will prioritize them,” Marcos said during his press conference.

However, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto was quick to point out that the two firms that occupy the no 2 and no 3 slots in the list were owned by the family of Sarah Discaya, who failed to unseat him in last May’s general elections.

Both were named among five construction firms that were awarded projects all over the country.

Sotto boldly enumerated what he called “the six stages of corruption”, insinuating that the two companies had engaged in irregularities to win the multi-billion government projects.

He claimed Sarah and her husband Curlee also owned or controlled six other construction companies based in Pasig, including St Gerrard General Contractor and Development Corp. which was suspended by the Department of Public Works and Highways in 2020 due to project delays.

Meanwhile, multi-media platform Rappler said the no 8 in the list, Sunwest, Inc. is a conglomerate based in Albay which was co-founded by Ako Bicol Representative Zaldy Co.

The report said the company had been lucrative from the time former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was in power, and between 2016 and 2024 along, won government projects worth a total of more than Php38 billion.

President Marcos’ list is part of the initial findings of an ongoing probe into flood control projects which followed his Statement of the Nation address, in which he vowed to go after substandard works that led to extensive flooding throughout the country last month.