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Medium risk #09 DSI index

Discretionary spend index

How much of an authority's money is spent through direct purchases, without a tender.

The discretionary spend index (DSI) is the share of an authority's money spent without a tender: direct purchases plus offline purchases, out of everything it spent. It is not in itself a sign of fraud, because a direct purchase is legal below the ceiling. But a large share of a large budget shows how many decisions are taken without competition. One row is one authority in one year.

Authority-years assessed

4,323

Spent without a tender

109.79 Bn.

National index

11.2%

Authorities above 60% by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

What the money spent without a tender bought

The 12 largest CPV groups by value; the other 304 are added into a single tile. Only money spent without a tender (direct and offline).

National index, weighted by money, by year

How it is computed

Computed on every award from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases and offline purchases are taken. Both are direct purchases; an offline purchase does not even go through the catalogue.
  2. Tender contracts are taken separately, by the value signed. Framework agreements are left out.
  3. Money is dated by when it was spent: the finalisation date for direct purchases and offline purchases, the contract date for tenders. If an offline purchase has no finalisation date yet, its publication date is used.
  4. It is grouped by authority and year. Each authority also has a row with its total across all years, shown when no year is chosen.
  5. The index is the two direct streams divided by everything the authority spent, as a percentage.
  6. Only authorities with at least 3 million lei in a year, or 20 million across all years, are included. Below that the index says nothing: a small authority need not run tenders, and almost every row would read 100%.

Thresholds

  • Minimum spending in a year: 3.000.000 RON
  • Minimum spending across all years: 20.000.000 RON
  • Above 60%: a strongly discretionary profile

The indicator measures how the money was spent, not whether it was lawful. It does not check whether a purchase passed the ceiling; indicators #01 and #02 do that. Actual payments are not in the data.

A high index can have legitimate reasons: an authority with no investment in a year spends almost only on running costs. Read it with indicator #06, which shows how much competition the tenders drew.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Year Direct Off-catalogue Without a tender Tenders Total spent DSI index
ORASUL VICOVU DE SUS CUI: 4327073 All years 63,305,752 0 63,305,752 229,290,294 292,596,046 21.6%
MUNICIPIUL BIRLAD CUI: 4539912 All years 43,058,252 20,235,542 63,293,794 446,592,978 509,886,772 12.4%
SPITATUL UNIVERSITAR DE URGENTA ELIAS CUI: 4192537 All years 57,935,108 5,177,182 63,112,290 989,279,696 1,052,391,986 6.0%
COMUNA TOMESTI CUI: 4540240 All years 62,917,229 19,000 62,936,229 124,842,651 187,778,880 33.5%
APAVIL SA CUI: 16468149 All years 57,024,456 5,683,659 62,708,115 155,873,154 218,581,269 28.7%
ORASUL TARGU-NEAMT CUI: 2614104 All years 61,647,511 964,936 62,612,447 231,659,885 294,272,332 21.3%
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 All years 58,902,094 3,608,466 62,510,560 88,857,530 151,368,090 41.3%
ORASUL POPESTI-LEORDENI CUI: 4505596 All years 62,486,470 0 62,486,470 520,053,826 582,540,296 10.7%
COMUNA HOLBOCA CUI: 4540518 All years 61,230,474 1,131,254 62,361,728 130,538,558 192,900,286 32.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BRAILA CUI: 4342863 All years 54,557,372 7,698,340 62,255,712 73,381,236 135,636,948 45.9%
SPITALUL DE PSIHIATRIE ZAM CUI: 4373967 All years 61,907,167 0 61,907,167 7,230,863 69,138,030 89.5%
UM 02454 CUI: 5399442 All years 61,621,583 229,411 61,850,994 132,826,612 194,677,606 31.8%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE IN SILVICULTURA MARIN DRACEA CUI: 34638446 All years 61,593,052 135,403 61,728,455 77,176,996 138,905,451 44.4%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA TG-JIU CUI: 4448067 All years 60,850,965 747,395 61,598,360 72,889,783 134,488,143 45.8%
SERVICIUL PUBLIC DE ADMINISTRAREA PATRIMONIULUI CUI: 16029704 All years 37,572,794 23,976,511 61,549,305 87,236,773 148,786,078 41.4%
APASERV SATU MARE SA CUI: 16844952 All years 44,488,330 16,907,697 61,396,027 1,036,331,950 1,097,727,977 5.6%
JUDETUL VRANCEA CUI: 4350394 All years 57,671,637 3,563,510 61,235,147 1,299,035,039 1,360,270,186 4.5%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 All years 61,212,538 0 61,212,538 308,998,829 370,211,367 16.5%
SERVICIUL PUBLIC ECOSAL CUI: 23973046 All years 58,464,050 2,639,286 61,103,336 150,096,175 211,199,511 28.9%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI CUI: 17300924 All years 57,564,481 3,477,975 61,042,456 232,829,328 293,871,784 20.8%
INSTITUTUL DE FONOAUDIOLOGIE SI CHIRURGIE FUNCTIONALA ORL PROFDRDORIN HOCIOTA CUI: 4316210 All years 46,623,512 14,351,380 60,974,892 31,364,635 92,339,527 66.0%
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 All years 58,224,657 2,633,160 60,857,817 422,198,758 483,056,575 12.6%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE BOLI INFECTIOASE PROFDRMATEI BALS CUI: 9524980 All years 53,525,545 7,194,526 60,720,071 1,177,938,430 1,238,658,501 4.9%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII CLUJ CUI: 4426352 All years 60,172,135 517,020 60,689,155 170,667,843 231,356,998 26.2%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI DOLJ CUI: 17104359 All years 60,556,916 22,735 60,579,651 21,432,066 82,011,717 73.9%

301-325 of 4323 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
Contracting authority
The authority that spent. One row is one authority in one year.
Year
The year the money was spent. The All years row is the authority's total and is shown by default; years do not add up.
Direct
Direct purchases. The link opens them for the same authority and year.
Off-catalogue
Offline purchases: direct purchases made outside the catalogue. The link opens them.
Without a tender
Direct plus offline: the amount in question. The table is ordered by it.
Tenders
Tender contracts. The link opens the authority's tenders; there the year is the notice's, not the contract's, so the list does not reproduce the figure exactly.
Total spent
Everything the authority spent that year, in all streams. 90% of a small budget and 40% of a large one do not mean the same thing.
DSI index
The share without a tender, as a percentage of the total. Under 40% green, 40–60% amber, above 60% red. The colour shows the band, not a fault.

The same data, through the API

Every figure on this page comes from the public API, through the endpoints below. The parameters each one takes are in the documentation; each needs an access key.

  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi/distribution
  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi/cpv-spend

Open data and API