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DPWH infrastructure · Region V

Half a trillion pesos of public works in Bicol

Every DPWH infrastructure contract recorded in Bicol since 2016: 17,200 projects worth 530.26 billion pesos. This page is the shape of that money. Where the dataset contradicts itself, we print both numbers.

Projects
17,200
2016 to 2026 infrastructure years
Total budget
₱530.26B
contract amounts, not disbursements
Completed
12,920
75.1% of all projects
On-going
3,175
plus 1,031 still for procurement
Contractors
952
firms holding at least one contract
Completed 12,920On-going 3,175For procurement 1,031Not started or terminated 74

Source · DPWH Infrastructure Transparency dataset via the BetterGov.ph API. Pulled 17 August 2026. Bisto Proyekto runs the live filterable table on the same data.

By province

Where the money is booked

Bar length is contract value, not project count. Albay and Camarines Sur between them hold 40 percent of the regional total.

₱120.71B · 3,716
₱92.68B · 4,595
₱75.79B · 1,916
₱37.40B · 2,132
₱30.16B · 1,791
₱15.48B · 1,069

1,981 projects have no province

The six province filters return 15,219 projects worth ₱372.21B. The region returns 17,200 worth ₱530.26B. The gap is 1,981 projects worth ₱158.06B, booked to the DPWH regional office rather than to any district engineering office. That is 29.8% of all infrastructure spending in Bicol that a resident cannot trace to their own province by filtering. We are not alleging anything by saying so. We are saying the geography is missing.

By category

What is being built

Roads take the largest share by value. Flood control is second and carries the highest average contract size of any category in the region.

Roads
₱173.69B · 5,056
Flood control and drainage
₱124.94B · 2,380
Buildings and facilities
₱62.40B · 5,093
Bridges
₱19.91B · 677
Water provision and storage
₱4.19B · 491
Septage and sewerage plants
₱31.5M · 1
The category field is dirty. These six clean categories cover 13,698 of 17,200 projects. The remaining 3,502 carry a compound category such as “Bridges, Roads”, or a fund code where the category should be. We are not going to guess which bucket those belong in, so they are excluded from this chart and counted in the total.

By year

Eleven infrastructure years

Contract value by infrastructure year. 2024 is the peak at 101.05 billion pesos. 2026 is low because most of that year is still for procurement.

1617181920212223242526
Year Projects Budget Completed On-going For procurement
2016 1,259 ₱25.63B 1,241 14 0
2017 1,808 ₱30.54B 1,787 10 0
2018 2,151 ₱51.48B 2,076 63 0
2019 1,604 ₱36.18B 1,476 128 0
2020 1,415 ₱42.48B 1,270 144 0
2021 1,407 ₱36.37B 1,259 146 0
2022 1,670 ₱69.62B 1,373 293 0
2023 1,675 ₱77.98B 1,294 377 0
2024 1,978 ₱101.05B 948 939 85
2025 1,693 ₱58.14B 227 1,014 428
2026 572 ₱1.65B 0 47 518

By district engineering office

The sixteen offices that award the work

DPWH books projects to a district engineering office, not to a city or municipality. This is the closest the dataset gets to a local view.

Region V (regional office)
₱158.06B
Albay 2nd DEO
₱67.76B
Sorsogon DEO
₱47.23B
Camarines Norte DEO
₱30.16B
Albay 1st DEO
₱29.68B
Sorsogon 2nd DEO
₱28.56B
Albay 3rd DEO
₱23.27B
Camarines Sur 2nd DEO
₱21.99B
Camarines Sur 5th DEO
₱21.60B
Camarines Sur 4th DEO
₱20.81B

Showing the top 10 of 16 offices by contract value.

Go deeper

The rest of this section

Flood control

2,380 projects, ₱124.94B. Spending doubled in 2022 and collapsed in 2025.

Contractors

952 firms. Twenty of them hold 43 percent of the money.

Roads, bridges, buildings

The other 10,826 projects, and what a road contract in Bicol actually costs.