As the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee reconvenes its inquiry into the country's flood-control program, public records show Negros Oriental is part of the national picture.
Using the government's own Sumbong sa Pangulo database, the DPWH transparency portal, and PhilGEPS award notices, a compilation of flood-control projects in the province lists 117 projects worth about ₱4.58 billion across its three congressional districts.
On 11 August 2025, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the DPWH identified 15 contractors that together accounted for roughly 20 percent — about ₱100 billion — of the ₱545.64-billion national flood-control program implemented between July 2022 and May 2025. Of those 15 firms, seven have a recorded flood-control footprint in Negros Oriental: 38 projects worth about ₱1.73 billion.
They include Legacy Construction Corporation (22 projects, about ₱961 million), Elite General Contractor, Amethyst Horizon Builders, St. Timothy Construction Corporation, QM Builders, YPR General Contractor, and Alpha & Omega General Contractor. Several are linked to the Discaya group of companies, whose owners have figured in the Senate inquiry; the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board has reported license revocations for some of them.
The province's single largest flood-control contractor by value in the dataset is PhilSouth Builders Inc. (about ₱1.02 billion across 19 projects), followed by Legacy.
Inclusion in this compilation is not an allegation of wrongdoing. Government contracts and public biddings are lawful public transactions, and President Marcos himself said the August disclosure was not an accusation against the named firms. The figures are the approved budgets and contract costs exactly as recorded in the public databases.
The point is one of equal scrutiny: as Bulacan and a handful of other areas dominate the hearings, the data show that each district nationwide — Negros Oriental's three included — merits the same close look.
The figures are drawn from the government's Sumbong sa Pangulo flood-control database, the DPWH transparency portal, and PhilGEPS award notices.