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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
SPITALUL CLINIC FILANTROPIA CUI: 4532388 All years 76,735,045 5,046,822 81,781,867 68,129,834 149,911,701 54.6%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SLOBOZIA CUI: 4231768 All years 81,403,780 337,429 81,741,209 40,469,632 122,210,841 66.9%
MUNICIPIUL ALBA IULIA CUI: 4562923 All years 30,767,125 50,957,270 81,724,395 946,764,043 1,028,488,438 8.0%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA SFPANTELIMON CUI: 4203881 All years 81,234,040 0 81,234,040 154,624,152 235,858,192 34.4%
SNGN ROMGAZ SA-FILIALA DE INMAGAZINARE GAZE NATURALE DEPOGAZ PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 34915261 All years 62,420,816 18,145,445 80,566,261 1,880,264,038 1,960,830,299 4.1%
ORASUL EFORIE CUI: 4617794 All years 78,519,332 1,608,881 80,128,213 413,993,982 494,122,195 16.2%
MUNICIPIUL LUPENI CUI: 4375046 All years 78,634,821 1,469,177 80,103,998 449,426,668 529,530,666 15.1%
MUNICIPIUL TURDA CUI: 4378930 All years 71,435,607 8,281,626 79,717,233 481,628,778 561,346,011 14.2%
AQUABIS SA CUI: 566787 All years 79,424,999 10,246 79,435,245 910,741,395 990,176,640 8.0%
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE VICTOR BABES TIMISOARA CUI: 4269215 All years 70,954,998 8,295,351 79,250,349 92,932,668 172,183,017 46.0%
MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 All years 55,292,981 23,386,837 78,679,818 278,116,439 356,796,257 22.1%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA PIATRA NEAMT CUI: 2613362 All years 78,409,439 29,000 78,438,439 156,090,375 234,528,814 33.5%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BUZAU CUI: 4055750 All years 76,674,968 1,722,981 78,397,949 132,143,811 210,541,760 37.2%
UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA CUI: 4553380 All years 74,260,755 3,823,082 78,083,837 528,331,239 606,415,076 12.9%
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 All years 77,842,981 176,000 78,018,981 74,182,535 152,201,516 51.3%
SPITALUL ORASENESC MIOVENI CUI: 4318202 All years 71,991,497 5,742,184 77,733,681 23,000,045 100,733,726 77.2%
UNITATEA MILITARA 02648-ACADEMIA TEHNICA MILITARA FERDINAND I CUI: 4265868 All years 75,873,477 1,563,612 77,437,089 136,030,808 213,467,897 36.3%
MUNICIPIUL TECUCI CUI: 4269312 All years 77,134,535 12,489 77,147,024 513,129,995 590,277,019 13.1%
COMUNA PAULESTI CUI: 2843981 All years 76,781,649 188,853 76,970,502 80,191,541 157,162,043 49.0%
COMUNA BACIU CUI: 4378751 All years 75,562,256 1,237,752 76,800,008 92,257,691 169,057,699 45.4%
COMPANIA MUNICIPALA CONSOLIDARI SA CUI: 37764937 All years 76,227,711 551,355 76,779,066 66,971,236 143,750,302 53.4%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SATU MARE CUI: 3963722 All years 66,995,002 9,589,413 76,584,415 716,208,935 792,793,350 9.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC AVRAM IANCU ORADEA CUI: 4784130 All years 74,165,346 2,313,935 76,479,281 23,978,469 100,457,750 76.1%
ECOVOL ILFOV SA CUI: 21551614 All years 71,361,505 4,865,349 76,226,854 1,522,147 77,749,001 98.0%
SPITAL MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA PASCANI CUI: 4701371 All years 72,019,034 3,218,503 75,237,537 19,737,860 94,975,397 79.2%

201-225 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