Alice audit at TCE-MG corrects notices worth R$91.7 million

AI system

System: Alice (Análise de Licitações e Editais), the CGU/TCU tender-analysis system as adopted by TCE-MG
Model: Not assessed
Release: Not assessed
Application developer: Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) and Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU)
Role: Not assessed
Configuration: Not assessed
Inputs and outputs: Not assessed
Autonomy: Not assessed
Workflow: Adoption of the CGU/TCU Alice system by a state court of accounts, with its own data acquisition and infrastructure. Selection of a typology of irregularities and a designed oversight process. Alerts sent to the audited bodies with a request for response. Audited bodies republishing corrected notices or adopting measures for future tenders.
Human oversight: Not assessed
Relation to AI: Alice produced the alerts on the 2,297 tenders. TCE-MG analysts forwarded 60 alerts and the audited bodies made the corrections. The AI role was detection and triage. The only sources are the deployer's own news item (TCE-MG, 27 June 2023) and Atricon's reproduction of it the next day. No audit report, tender or court decision is among the sources. TCE-MG did not build the tool (CGU/TCU did), so the statement is not vendor-authored. It is the user describing its own results.
AI contribution: Alice produced the alerts on the 2,297 tenders. TCE-MG analysts forwarded 60 alerts and the audited bodies made the corrections. The AI role was detection and triage. The only sources are the deployer's own news item (TCE-MG, 27 June 2023) and Atricon's reproduction of it the next day. No audit report, tender or court decision is among the sources. TCE-MG did not build the tool (CGU/TCU did), so the statement is not vendor-authored. It is the user describing its own results.

Benefits

Outcome identifiers: Not assessed
Benefit: the audit achieved corrections of notices worth R$91,723,011.31
Category: Reduced Risk
Status: Not assessed
Beneficiary groups: People. Organizations. Society.
Beneficiaries: Not assessed
Reach: Not assessed
Distribution and access: Not assessed
Duration: Not assessed
Expected?: Yes
Costs and harms: Not assessed

Measurement

Studies: Not assessed
Study design: Not assessed
Measurement: Not assessed
Setting and sample: Not assessed
Measures: the audit achieved corrections of notices worth R$91,723,011.31
Comparison: Not assessed
Results: the audit achieved corrections of notices worth R$91,723,011.31
Additional value from AI: Not assessed
Limitations: Not assessed
Denominators: Not assessed
Materials for replication: Not assessed

Money

Kind of value: value of the tender notices corrected after Alice's alerts in the audit of August 2022 tenders
Amount: R$ 91.723.011,31
Currency and prices: Not assessed
Period and unit: Not assessed
Realization: Not assessed
Recipients and payers: the audited state and municipal bodies in Minas Gerais, which republished corrected notices; the page's title calls the result a saving without saying who saved
Gross or net: Not assessed
Included costs: Not assessed
Comparison: Not assessed
Method: Not assessed
Return and payback: Not assessed

People and places

Participants: Developer: Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) and Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU). Operator: Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Minas Gerais (TCE-MG).
Jurisdictions: Benefit: Minas Gerais, Brazil. Developer: Brazil. Operator: Brazil.
Ownership and control: Not assessed
Dependencies: Not assessed
Cross-border connections: Not assessed
Geopolitical implications: Not assessed

Follow-up

Conditions for replication: Access to state and municipal tender notices in machine-readable form. Internal acceptance of the tool by auditors (the court cites internal resistance as a challenge). Audited bodies answering alerts (53 of 60 did). Typologies kept current so that alerts remain relevant.
Replication attempts: 2 follow-up entries. Benefit recurred: 1. Outcome unresolved: 1.
Later findings: 17 January 2024. In January 2024 TCE-MG was still running Alice and presented its methodology and results to a TCE-ES auditor who had asked to learn about the robots; adoption by TCE-ES is not reported.
Availability: Not assessed
Institutional decision: Not assessed
Grounds: Not assessed
Action and result: Not assessed
Success criterion: Not assessed

Evidence

Source numbers: AIBD-0332-source-0001–0004
Citations: Numbered references below.
Language: Not assessed
Source relationships: Operator
Original evidence: Not assessed
Access and versions: Not assessed
Supported findings: Not assessed
Evidence links: Not assessed
Evidence strength: Not assessed
Missing evidence: Not assessed

Grades

Assessed benefits: People. Organizations. Society.
Depth: People: Not assessed. Organizations: 2. Society: 1.
Reasons: People: No individual beneficiary is identified. Beneficiaries are public bodies and bidders in corrected tenders. Organizations: Material to the audited municipal and state bodies: 53 of 60 alerts answered and notices worth R$91,723,011.31 corrected, per the court's own aggregate figures. Society: One month of tenders in one state. The statement gives no estimate of money saved, only the value of notices corrected.
Observed or intended: Not assessed
Rubric: Not assessed
Assessor and date: Not assessed
Alternative assessments: Not assessed
Fill: The deployer's account

Entry details

Kind: Not assessed
Related entries: Not assessed
Field: Public administration: state external audit and procurement control. State court of accounts (anti-waste and anti-corruption control).
Purpose: Automated identification of tender notices with possible inconsistencies or irregularities so that the court can oversee more tenders. This use was its intended purpose.
Dates: Date basis unassessed: 2022 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
Stage: Not assessed
Version: SHA-256: 9a17eefb5973…

References

Other identifiers: Not assessed
Category mappings: Not assessed
Brief: Not assessed
Revisions: 6 revisions. Latest: 21 October 2026.

Sources

Press release Deployer

Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Minas Gerais (2023). Tribunal mineiro apresenta economia feita com ajuda de Alice. TCE-MG Coordenadoria de Jornalismo e Redação (Fred La Rocca), 27 Jun 2023.
Press release Deployer

Appel, V. (2023). TCE-MG apresenta economia feita com ajuda de robô Alice. Atricon (Associação dos Membros dos Tribunais de Contas do Brasil), 28 Jun 2023, source TCE-MG.
Press release Deployer

Appel V (2024). TCE-MG apresenta robôs Alice e Solaris para o TCE-ES. Atricon, 17 January 2024.