Camarines Sur · Independent component city
The commercial and educational centre of Camarines Sur, and the only independent city in Bicol. Home of the Peñafrancia devotion, the largest Marian gathering in the Philippines.
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Population figure is the 2024 census. Badges mean what they say: Confirmed is two independent sources agreeing, Single source is one source not yet checked against a second, Not sourced is a field we will leave empty rather than fill. Our sources.
The official website
Checked 17 August 2026 as part of our regional transparency audit.
7/12 on our audit
The best LGU website in Bicol and it is not close. Publishes a Full Disclosure Policy section, annual budget, bids and projects, a Citizens Charter, ordinances back to 2026, executive orders archived to 2004, and a separate People’s Budget Portal. The one structural problem is that the content sits on the www2 subdomain while naga.gov.ph is the canonical name, which splits citations and search authority across two hostnames for no benefit.
Public money
Two streams of public money build things in every Philippine city. The national government builds roads, bridges and flood control through DPWH, and the city builds its own programs out of its own budget. The first is published as data. The second usually is not, so this section shows both and marks the difference.
DPWH, every LGU in the countrypublished
search term “NAGA CITY”
sum of all contract amounts
30 still under construction
distinct names on the contracts
no contract amount yet
across the projects marked on-going
contract ended before completion
Pulled 18 August 2026 from the DPWH projects API behind bisto.ph, a BetterGov.ph and TAPAT initiative under a Memorandum of Cooperation with DPWH. The API records location as province and district engineering office only, with no city field, so this is a full-text match on the project description. A looser search finds 10 more projects worth ₱176.9M that name Naga barangays without writing the word “city”, so the count above is a floor rather than a total.
| Category | Projects | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Roads | 38 | ₱1,105.8M |
| Buildings and Facilities | 72 | ₱944.1M |
| Flood Control and Drainage | 25 | ₱799.1M |
| Bridges | 10 | ₱215.8M |
| Water Provision and Storage | 1 | ₱3.2M |
146 of 221 projects carry one of the clean category strings. The other 75 hold a fund code such as “GAA 2025 SSP” or two categories in one field. That is dirt in the source data and we count it as unclassified rather than guess.
Philworks Construction & Supply holds 25 of the 221 contracts in Naga, worth ₱1.70B. The five largest names together hold 56.6%.
Concentration is not evidence that anything improper happened, and this page does not suggest it is. Bicol has a small pool of firms with the bonding capacity for national road work, and a specialist winning repeatedly is an ordinary outcome. It is still a number worth knowing, so here it is against its peers, largest single contractor share in each of the seven Bicol cities.
Shares are of each city’s own contract value, not of the region. Names are matched as DPWH records them, so a joint venture counts as its own name and a firm appearing both alone and in a joint venture is undercounted here. The regional contractor view.
the city’s own budgetpublished
fiscal year 2027
not approved spending
the rest have filed nothing
left by residents on the rows below
| Program | Budget code | Implementing office | Proposed | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modernized Market Enterprise & Operations Program | 8000-000-2-3-043-002-000 | Market Enterprise and Promotions Office | ₱17.5M | – |
| Employment and Career Placement Program | 8000-000-2-3-039-002-000 | Metro Public Employment and Service Office | ₱11.6M | 3 |
| SARIG Inclusive Farm Credit and Agri-Marketing Program | 8000-000-2-2-019-003-000 | Office of the City Agriculturist | ₱5.8M | 2 |
| Tourism Marketing & Promotion Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-005-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱3.7M | 1 |
| Marketing & Investment Generation Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-003-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱1.9M | – |
| Cooperative Development and Capability Enhancement Program | 8000-000-2-3-057-003-000 | Naga City Cooperative Development Office | ₱790,000 | – |
| Tourism Product Development Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-006-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱700,000 | – |
| Grassroots Enterprise Development and Barangay Empowerment Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-004-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱700,000 | – |
| Industry Priority Area Development Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-002-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱700,000 | – |
| Ease of Doing Business (EODB) and Regulatory Streamlining Program | 8000-000-2-3-040-007-000 | Investment and Trade Promotion Office | ₱400,000 | 20 |
The registry lists 12 programs. The 10 above total ₱44.1M, so ₱103.7M sits in the two rows we could not read: the second page of the registry renders only in a browser, and the portal’s own API answers “missing access token”, so we did not go around it. Read the full registry at budget.naga.gov.ph/aip. Built by WeSolve Foundation and Stride Technologies, supported by BetterGov.PH, in partnership with the City Government of Naga and the Naga City People’s Council. AGPL-3.0 software. Data reuse permitted for civic and journalistic purposes with attribution to the City Government of Naga.
| Notice | Reference | Posted | Approved budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installation of 80 CMD Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) System | 009938-2025-01 (A) | 29 January 2026 | ₱10.4M |
| Proposed Wastewater Treatment Facility: collection chamber, collection pipes, transfer pumps, septic tank and power supply, Naga City People’s Mall | 009938-2025-01 (B) | 29 January 2026 | ₱5.1M |
| Walkway from Naga City General Hospital main building to the Out-Patient Department | 009928-2025-01 | 8 December 2025 | ₱4.6M |
| Supply and delivery of drugs and medicines, one lot | 2025-040 | 17 November 2025 | ₱2.5M |
| Supply and delivery of well-milled rice for indigent and abandoned senior citizens | – | 2 June 2026 | ₱819,500 |
10 notices are posted on the city’s bid page and 5 of them publish an approved budget for the contract. The other five give no peso figure, so they are counted and not tabled. 3 of the five are construction work, totalling ₱20.1M. Source: www2.naga.gov.ph/procurement/, read 18 August 2026.
Approved city budgets are posted separately as PDFs, 2011 to 2025, one approved city budget per year as a PDF, with 2015 missing. The budget archive.
the city’s own projectsnothing published
For city-funded work there is no register anywhere in the region of what was awarded, to whom, for how much, and whether it was finished. Proposals get published. Bid invitations get published. What happened next does not.
The gap matters because it is the only stage a resident can check with their own eyes. A road either exists or it does not. Until an LGU publishes awards and completion, the national projects in Stage 1 are the only public works in Naga anyone outside city hall can follow from money to concrete.
Elected officials
Names carry the same badges as the figures above. We publish an unchecked name as unchecked, or not at all. A wrong name against a real office is the fastest way for a site like this to lose its standing.
Services
Twelve of these are handled by the city hall and four are national services with offices in Bicol. Requirements vary by LGU, which is what the Citizens Charter is for.