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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
COMUNA CERNICA CUI: 4420740 All years 26,690,909 11,607,295 38,298,204 31,230,842 69,529,046 55.1%
SPITALUL ORASENESC PUCIOASA CUI: 4206977 All years 37,603,430 684,294 38,287,724 16,796,935 55,084,659 69.5%
SPITALUL CLINIC COLTEA CUI: 4192960 All years 38,214,732 37,500 38,252,232 2,323,185,420 2,361,437,652 1.6%
AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MARAMURES RA CUI: 2944544 All years 37,829,635 257,316 38,086,951 244,272,474 282,359,425 13.5%
ORASUL MIERCUREA SIBIULUI CUI: 4406266 All years 38,024,887 2,401 38,027,288 32,578,093 70,605,381 53.9%
COMUNA MANECIU CUI: 2843221 All years 37,977,497 0 37,977,497 83,176,643 121,154,140 31.4%
CENTRUL DE CREATIE ARTA SI TRADITIE AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4266901 All years 34,103,735 3,861,340 37,965,075 38,170,279 76,135,354 49.9%
SPITAL DE PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIE BACAU CUI: 4278213 All years 34,097,126 3,852,598 37,949,724 26,785,766 64,735,490 58.6%
COMUNA PRUNDU BARGAULUII CUI: 4347410 All years 37,948,831 0 37,948,831 85,136,392 123,085,223 30.8%
COMUNA VADU PASII CUI: 4385538 All years 37,706,863 197,883 37,904,746 109,948,912 147,853,658 25.6%
SOCIETATEA ROMANA DE RADIODIFUZIUNE CUI: 8296093 All years 37,873,728 0 37,873,728 1,175,164,091 1,213,037,819 3.1%
ORASUL GATAIA CUI: 4357988 All years 37,854,088 0 37,854,088 83,143,589 120,997,677 31.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEUROPSIHIATRIE CUI: 12688940 All years 34,467,519 3,378,479 37,845,998 62,597,670 100,443,668 37.7%
ORASUL LEHLIU - GARA CUI: 16300713 All years 37,652,358 96,556 37,748,914 73,068,518 110,817,432 34.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL CALAFAT CUI: 4830040 All years 37,594,209 0 37,594,209 19,696,024 57,290,233 65.6%
COMPANIA NATIONALA LOTERIA ROMANA SA CUI: 12397185 All years 37,221,594 325,398 37,546,992 230,144,290 267,691,282 14.0%
COMUNA SAG CUI: 2506200 All years 37,312,347 222,603 37,534,950 30,104,851 67,639,801 55.5%
COMUNA TARGSORU VECHI CUI: 2845230 All years 36,112,279 1,421,351 37,533,630 111,356,592 148,890,222 25.2%
ORAS BUSTENI CUI: 2845729 All years 37,113,197 398,718 37,511,915 42,525,218 80,037,133 46.9%
AGENTIA NATIONALA DE IMBUNATATIRI FUNCIARE CUI: 29275212 All years 36,799,258 594,171 37,393,429 5,899,193,679 5,936,587,108 0.6%
ORASUL COVASNA CUI: 4404613 All years 37,190,702 143,483 37,334,185 74,967,872 112,302,057 33.2%
ORASUL LITENI CUI: 4244229 All years 37,291,800 0 37,291,800 112,722,465 150,014,265 24.9%
INSTITUTUL DE STAT PENTRU TESTAREA SI INREGISTRAREA SOIURILOR CUI: 4192880 All years 36,435,746 851,993 37,287,739 51,722,898 89,010,637 41.9%
COMUNA GHIOROC CUI: 3520237 All years 36,289,347 991,562 37,280,909 43,059,311 80,340,220 46.4%
JUDETUL CONSTANTA CUI: 2981739 All years 30,682,852 6,553,099 37,235,951 1,651,521,579 1,688,757,530 2.2%

626-650 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