An agency whose sanctions all arrive in the last quarter looks identical. This is a spending pattern, not a finding.

An agency whose sanctions all arrive in the last quarter looks identical. This is a spending pattern, not a finding.

An agency whose sanctions all arrive in the last quarter looks identical. This is a spending pattern, not a finding.

An agency whose sanctions all arrive in the last quarter looks identical. This is a spending pattern, not a finding.

Not a suspicion. MPLADS funds stay spendable after a term ends, and the median MP-term leaves 16.5% uncommitted, so only well above that appears here. It is deliberately not the source's "Balance Not Yet Paid to Vendors", which is money already committed to works and merely awaiting payment.

Round figures are normal and similar works legitimately cost the same. One figure covering nearly every work is what this looks for, and it means the costing is worth seeing, not that it is wrong.

The whole population fails the textbook test — the median agency scores 6.2 where Nigrini calls 1.5 nonconformant — because MPLADS amounts are capped, rounded and repeated by design. This ranks agencies against each other, not against the law. It is the weakest signal here and is never evidence on its own.

The whole population fails the textbook test — the median agency scores 6.2 where Nigrini calls 1.5 nonconformant — because MPLADS amounts are capped, rounded and repeated by design. This ranks agencies against each other, not against the law. It is the weakest signal here and is never evidence on its own.