Skip to content

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
ORAS CHITILA CUI: 4420848 All years 102,098,736 291,800 102,390,536 266,558,427 368,948,963 27.8%
MUNICIPIUL DEVA CUI: 4374393 All years 94,397,523 7,195,126 101,592,649 661,096,695 762,689,344 13.3%
ADMINISTRATIA ROMANA A SERVICIILOR DE TRAFIC AERIAN ROMATSA RA CUI: 1589932 All years 90,806,658 10,000,942 100,807,600 594,587,387 695,394,987 14.5%
TRUSTUL DE CLADIRI METROPOLITANE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 37992692 All years 91,660,498 8,837,580 100,498,078 210,909,060 311,407,138 32.3%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE MEDICO-MILITARA CANTACUZINO CUI: 15203810 All years 67,816,373 32,590,149 100,406,522 223,555,852 323,962,374 31.0%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII SFIOAN GALATI CUI: 3346875 All years 98,198,270 2,050,789 100,249,059 82,642,506 182,891,565 54.8%
MUNICIPIUL DEJ CUI: 4349179 All years 95,100,888 4,993,627 100,094,515 383,198,267 483,292,782 20.7%
COMUNA DOBROESTI CUI: 4283503 All years 99,401,195 475,219 99,876,414 60,856,975 160,733,389 62.1%
MUNICIPIUL SATU MARE CUI: 4038806 All years 84,118,330 15,343,289 99,461,619 1,006,965,168 1,106,426,787 9.0%
ADMINISTRATIA NATIONALA APELE ROMANE ADMINISTRATIA BAZINALA DE APA CRISURI CUI: 23782674 All years 80,187,559 17,954,801 98,142,360 323,776,537 421,918,897 23.3%
APA-CANAL 2000 SA CUI: 13009001 All years 98,049,364 8,900 98,058,264 850,027,516 948,085,780 10.3%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SIGHETU MARMATIEI CUI: 3627587 All years 94,744,419 3,143,090 97,887,509 125,732,242 223,619,751 43.8%
UNITATEA MILITARA 01512 CUI: 4241117 All years 49,497,935 47,985,817 97,483,752 216,254,506 313,738,258 31.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC DR ICANTACUZINO CUI: 4203490 All years 88,446,703 8,755,413 97,202,116 90,146,179 187,348,295 51.9%
COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966 All years 96,561,648 0 96,561,648 1,072,786,069 1,169,347,717 8.3%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ZALAU CUI: 4291719 All years 96,222,854 1,730 96,224,584 210,974,321 307,198,905 31.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC COLENTINA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283929 All years 95,750,340 391,612 96,141,952 125,672,154 221,814,106 43.3%
UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS CUI: 3127522 All years 43,272,121 52,825,003 96,097,124 255,721,871 351,818,995 27.3%
JUDETUL PRAHOVA CUI: 2842889 All years 76,895,956 18,246,972 95,142,928 3,575,460,393 3,670,603,321 2.6%
DOMENIUL PUBLIC NAPOCA SA CUI: 201233 All years 93,257,404 1,762,567 95,019,971 633,170,632 728,190,603 13.1%
ORASUL TAUTII MAGHERAUS CUI: 3627170 All years 75,354,689 19,319,827 94,674,516 79,073,690 173,748,206 54.5%
UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA CUI: 4244423 All years 93,498,934 933,869 94,432,803 347,613,421 442,046,224 21.4%
INSTITUTUL ONCOLOGIC PROFDRALEXANDRU TRESTIOREANU BUCURESTI CUI: 4203709 All years 92,996,591 1,405,301 94,401,892 457,897,553 552,299,445 17.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC MUNICIPAL CUI: 4547117 All years 90,660,068 3,629,004 94,289,072 291,011,441 385,300,513 24.5%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 All years 80,849,332 13,350,268 94,199,600 238,561,510 332,761,110 28.3%

126-150 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