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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 SANNICOLAU MARE CUI: 4548554 All years 44,366,459 6,448,648 50,815,107 156,300,938 207,116,045 24.5%
ORASUL RASNOV CUI: 4443353 All years 47,690,028 3,088,607 50,778,635 41,520,632 92,299,267 55.0%
HIDRO PRAHOVA SA CUI: 16826034 All years 50,690,842 77,850 50,768,692 2,507,770,197 2,558,538,889 2.0%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL AIUD CUI: 4613628 All years 45,806,558 4,752,879 50,559,437 27,720,826 78,280,263 64.6%
ORASUL UNGHENI CUI: 4323322 All years 46,225,350 4,313,751 50,539,101 28,745,933 79,285,034 63.7%
ORAS NEGRESTI-OAS CUI: 3963951 All years 50,215,889 148,519 50,364,408 192,327,693 242,692,101 20.8%
JUDETUL CALARASI CUI: 4294030 All years 47,508,341 2,778,567 50,286,908 1,155,555,613 1,205,842,521 4.2%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI - BIHOR CUI: 17091429 All years 45,756,429 4,326,578 50,083,007 98,562,015 148,645,022 33.7%
ECO URBIS CRAIOVA SRL CUI: 7403230 All years 43,808,078 6,027,473 49,835,551 103,677,892 153,513,443 32.5%
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 All years 48,817,994 979,643 49,797,637 149,723,976 199,521,613 25.0%
INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI ROMANE CUI: 4453144 All years 3,455,472 46,280,739 49,736,211 2,434,376,963 2,484,113,174 2.0%
ORASUL MOLDOVA NOUA CUI: 3227955 All years 48,565,658 1,054,958 49,620,616 136,634,675 186,255,291 26.6%
JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580 All years 48,615,960 953,138 49,569,098 2,019,378,513 2,068,947,611 2.4%
SALUBRIS SA CUI: 14816433 All years 40,861,566 8,677,111 49,538,677 253,742,555 303,281,232 16.3%
EDILITARA PUBLIC SA CUI: 27295841 All years 49,403,661 123,039 49,526,700 81,848,910 131,375,610 37.7%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SEBES CUI: 4331210 All years 42,227,755 7,265,993 49,493,748 42,155,947 91,649,695 54.0%
MUNICIPIUL CARANSEBES CUI: 3227947 All years 49,227,809 53,600 49,281,409 219,199,981 268,481,390 18.4%
ACADEMIA NAVALA MIRCEA CEL BATRAN- UM 02192 CONSTANTA CUI: 4515484 All years 43,315,812 5,824,733 49,140,545 450,574,370 499,714,915 9.8%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL MEDGIDIA CUI: 4300752 All years 48,589,485 522,098 49,111,583 50,905,434 100,017,017 49.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL EPISCOP NICOLAE POPOVICI BEIUS CUI: 4558680 All years 46,608,066 2,500,592 49,108,658 11,243,568 60,352,226 81.4%
CT BUS SA CUI: 1883902 All years 47,721,623 1,243,704 48,965,327 0 48,965,327 100.0%
JUDETUL CLUJ CUI: 4288110 All years 46,289,790 2,615,481 48,905,271 3,137,120,335 3,186,025,606 1.5%
COMUNA BOLINTIN DEAL CUI: 5843129 All years 47,336,383 1,487,136 48,823,519 88,136,548 136,960,067 35.7%
COMUNA TETCHEA CUI: 4705942 All years 47,796,307 1,012,149 48,808,456 21,416,039 70,224,495 69.5%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ANTON CINCU CUI: 4322270 All years 48,489,282 188,270 48,677,552 13,842,949 62,520,501 77.9%

426-450 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