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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
MUNICIPIUL SEBES CUI: 4331201 All years 26,257,002 26,369,783 52,626,785 224,127,281 276,754,066 19.0%
COMUNA SANTANDREI CUI: 4794583 All years 51,532,636 1,027,228 52,559,864 71,938,108 124,497,972 42.2%
INSTITUTUL DE PSIHIATRIE SOCOLA IASI CUI: 4541165 All years 39,032,311 13,465,235 52,497,546 65,584,595 118,082,141 44.5%
SPITALUL DE URGENTA PETROSANI CUI: 4374873 All years 52,244,235 0 52,244,235 215,287,118 267,531,353 19.5%
COMUNA CLINCENI CUI: 6506628 All years 52,102,516 0 52,102,516 45,697,089 97,799,605 53.3%
ORAS BAICOI CUI: 2845710 All years 50,565,751 1,535,450 52,101,201 97,981,189 150,082,390 34.7%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DR AUREL TULBURE CUI: 4384389 All years 51,971,536 11,877 51,983,413 16,344,429 68,327,842 76.1%
ORASUL ALESD CUI: 4348920 All years 51,962,620 0 51,962,620 122,412,586 174,375,206 29.8%
JUDETUL NEAMT CUI: 2612839 All years 48,909,773 3,021,097 51,930,870 2,270,384,176 2,322,315,046 2.2%
MUNICIPIUL TIMISOARA CUI: 14756536 All years 23,577,619 28,303,455 51,881,074 2,788,769,568 2,840,650,642 1.8%
JUDETUL TIMIS CUI: 4358029 All years 47,664,201 4,106,634 51,770,835 1,661,205,864 1,712,976,699 3.0%
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI CUI: 4266570 All years 46,419,369 5,329,684 51,749,053 102,750,327 154,499,380 33.5%
COMUNA GILAU CUI: 4485421 All years 49,739,131 1,929,525 51,668,656 62,427,400 114,096,056 45.3%
MUNICIPIUL CAMPULUNG MOLDOVENESC CUI: 4842400 All years 48,577,787 3,015,691 51,593,478 324,965,785 376,559,263 13.7%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DR POP MIRCEA MARGHITA CUI: 4230517 All years 51,541,246 0 51,541,246 19,079,253 70,620,499 73.0%
MUNICIPIUL GIURGIU CUI: 4852455 All years 29,243,204 22,293,624 51,536,828 423,816,159 475,352,987 10.8%
JUDETUL BISTRITA-NASAUD CUI: 4347550 All years 8,077,144 43,350,082 51,427,226 1,723,992,530 1,775,419,756 2.9%
COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE SA CUI: 1443170 All years 49,472,687 1,922,385 51,395,072 693,619,027 745,014,099 6.9%
COMPLEXUL SPORTIV NATIONAL LIA MANOLIU BUCURESTI CUI: 4203890 All years 51,004,685 208,714 51,213,399 41,487,176 92,700,575 55.3%
SERVICIUL DE PROTECTIE SI PAZA - UM 0149 F BUCURESTI CUI: 4283635 All years 48,673,484 2,474,539 51,148,023 456,088,405 507,236,428 10.1%
METROREX SA CUI: 13863739 All years 8,953,963 42,151,788 51,105,751 7,482,471,180 7,533,576,931 0.7%
INSTITUTUL DE PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIE MARIUS NASTA CUI: 4316180 All years 50,807,870 211,364 51,019,234 658,232,129 709,251,363 7.2%
COMUNA MOARA CUI: 4441026 All years 50,698,042 265,945 50,963,987 57,280,334 108,244,321 47.1%
COMUNA SIRIA CUI: 3518920 All years 50,447,683 475,045 50,922,728 25,378,670 76,301,398 66.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA MOINESTI CUI: 4278710 All years 44,690,083 6,170,983 50,861,066 352,551,597 403,412,663 12.6%

401-425 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