AI system
- System
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ALICE (Analisador de Licitações, Contratos e Editais), CGU text-mining and AI alert tool
- Model
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Not assessed
- Release
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Not assessed
- Application developer
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Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), in-house - Role
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Not assessed
- Configuration
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Not assessed
- Inputs and outputs
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Not assessed
- Autonomy
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Not assessed
- Workflow
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ALICE alert on a road-works budget. CGU auditors' examination of the budget's adequacy. Federal managers adjusting the reference value before contracting.
- Human oversight
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Not assessed
- Relation to AI
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The CGU states the chain explicitly: “A partir do alerta do ALICE, auditores da CGU examinaram a adequação de um orçamento de uma obra rodoviária, o que gerou ajustes efetuados pelos gestores federais.” The adjustment was made by managers after a human audit. ALICE's role was the initial alert. Developer and deployer are the same public body. The page is on record as an archived copy, because the live page was restricted during Brazil's 2026 electoral period.
- AI contribution
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The CGU states the chain explicitly: “A partir do alerta do ALICE, auditores da CGU examinaram a adequação de um orçamento de uma obra rodoviária, o que gerou ajustes efetuados pelos gestores federais.” The adjustment was made by managers after a human audit. ALICE's role was the initial alert. Developer and deployer are the same public body. The page is on record as an archived copy, because the live page was restricted during Brazil's 2026 electoral period.
Benefits
- Outcome identifiers
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Not assessed
- Benefit
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reduced the reference value by about R$100 million
- Category
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Reduced Risk
- Status
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Not assessed
- Beneficiary groups
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People. Organizations. Society.
- Beneficiaries
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Not assessed
- Reach
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Not assessed
- Distribution and access
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Not assessed
- Duration
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Not assessed
- Expected?
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Yes
- Costs and harms
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Not assessed
Measurement
- Studies
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Not assessed
- Study design
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Not assessed
- Measurement
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Not assessed
- Setting and sample
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Not assessed
- Measures
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reduced the reference value by about R$100 million
- Comparison
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the tender's original reference value for the engineering services (figure not stated)
- Results
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Reference: the original reference value, not stated. Result: redução de cerca de R$ 100 milhões no valor de referência.
- Additional value from AI
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Not assessed
- Limitations
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Not assessed
- Denominators
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Not assessed
- Materials for replication
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Not assessed
Money
- Kind of value
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reduction in the reference value of a federal road-works engineering tender after the ALICE alert
- Amount
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cerca de R$ 100 milhões
- Currency and prices
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Not assessed
- Period and unit
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Not assessed
- Realization
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Not assessed
- Recipients and payers
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the federal government (contracting agency not named)
- Gross or net
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Not assessed
- Included costs
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Method
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Not assessed
- Return and payback
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Not assessed
People and places
- Participants
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Developer:
Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), in-house. Operator: Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU). - Jurisdictions
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Developer:
Brazil. Operator: Brazil. - Ownership and control
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Not assessed
- Dependencies
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Not assessed
- Cross-border connections
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Not assessed
- Geopolitical implications
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Not assessed
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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Budget spreadsheets published with the notice. Audit review before the tender closes. Managers' willingness to revise estimates.
- Replication attempts
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2 follow-up entries. Benefit recurred: 2.
- Later findings
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14 January 2025. Two weeks later the CGU reported the first 2025 audit reports built on ALICE alerts: three Rio de Janeiro federal hospital tenders, one suspended, one revoked and one re-estimated.
- Availability
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Not assessed
- Institutional decision
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Not assessed
- Grounds
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Not assessed
- Action and result
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Not assessed
- Success criterion
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Not assessed
Evidence
- Source numbers
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AIBD-0087-source-0001–0004
- Citations
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Numbered references below.
- Language
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Not assessed
- Source relationships
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Developer, Independent
- Original evidence
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Not assessed
- Access and versions
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Not assessed
- Supported findings
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Not assessed
- Evidence links
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Not assessed
- Evidence strength
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Not assessed
- Missing evidence
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Not assessed
Grades
- Assessed benefits
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People. Organizations. Society.
- Depth
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People: Not assessed. Organizations: 2. Society: 1.
- Reasons
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People: No identifiable individual beneficiary. Organizations: Material to the federal budget: about R$100 million removed from a single tender's reference value, per the CGU. Society: Small at national scale and the contracting agency is not named, limiting traceability.
- Observed or intended
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Not assessed
- Rubric
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Not assessed
- Assessor and date
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Not assessed
- Alternative assessments
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Not assessed
- Fill
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Independently reported
Entry details
- Kind
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Not assessed
- Related entries
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DWP's risk-flagging algorithm, the same alert-then-investigate design as ALICE, flagged mostly legitimate claims, wasting public funds instead of saving them.
- Field
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Public administration: government audit and procurement control. Federal infrastructure procurement.
- Purpose
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Continuous automated audit of federal procurement to flag budget and pricing risks before contracting
- Dates
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Date basis unassessed: 2024 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
- Stage
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Not assessed
- Version
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SHA-256: bc9414218e46…
References
- Other identifiers
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AI Incident Database: 738.
- Category mappings
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Not assessed
- Brief
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Not assessed
- Revisions
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9 revisions. Latest: 21 October 2026.
Sources
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News report Independent author
Grossmann, L. O. (2025). Robô da CGU rastreia R$ 25 bilhões em licitações. Convergência Digital, 15 Jan 2025. Secondary report restating the CGU release of 30 Dec 2024; names no sources of its own.
houve redução de aproximadamente R$ 100 milhões
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Press release Developer
Controladoria-Geral da União (2024). Órgãos federais economizaram, em 2024, 257 milhões de reais com apoio do Robô ALICE. gov.br/cgu, 30 Dec 2024.
A partir do alerta do ALICE, auditores da CGU examinaram a adequação de um orçamento de uma obra rodoviária, o que gerou ajustes efetuados pelos gestores federais
a redução de cerca de R$ 100 milhões no valor de referência em um edital para contratação de serviços de engenharia
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Press release Developer
Controladoria-Geral da União (2025). Atuação do Robô ALICE segue auxiliando auditores a realizar trabalhos preventivos, que ajudam a evitar desperdícios e irregularidades. gov.br/cgu, 14 Jan 2025.