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High risk #01 Slicing

Artificial slicing of direct purchases

Repeated direct purchases from one supplier, each below the legal ceiling, together above it.

A large need is covered by several direct purchases from the same supplier, in the same CPV group and the same year, each below the legal ceiling (today 270,120 lei for goods and services and 900,400 lei for works; half that until September 2022). Together they pass the ceiling, and the tender the law requires is avoided. Computed on direct purchases only.

Slicing groups

47

Cumulative flagged value

24.69 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

110.5

Flagged groups by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

Flagged value by CPV group

The 10 largest CPV groups by value; the other 242 are added into a single tile.

How it is computed

Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases with a supplier (CUI) and a CPV code are kept.
  2. They are grouped on five keys: the authority, the supplier, the first three digits of the CPV code, the year and the contract type.
  3. Groups with a single purchase are dropped: one purchase alone is not slicing.
  4. For each group the purchase values are added up, and the average and the largest are computed.
  5. The ceiling is the one in force on the day each purchase was published, for its contract type. In the years the ceiling changed (2018, 2022) the group splits in two, each part with its own ceiling.
  6. The group is flagged when its total passes the ceiling. The purchases are not judged one by one: their sum is what counts.

Thresholds

Purchases published Goods and services Works
until 03.06.2018Legea 98/2016 132,519 441,730
04.06.2018 – 09.09.2022OUG 45/2018 135,060 450,200
from 10.09.2022Legea 208/2022 270,120 900,400

Ceilings exclude VAT (Legea 98/2016, art. 7(5)). Each purchase is compared with the ceiling in force on the day it was published. The ceilings and procedures, explained.

  • At least two direct purchases to the same supplier, in the same CPV group and year

Direct purchases only. Tenders and framework agreements are not counted.

Grouping uses the first three CPV digits, so different products of the same family land in one group. That is how the legal ceiling applies too, but it can join purchases that do not replace one another.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ELECTROSISTEM SRL CUI: 12395478 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 12 1,571,421 130,952 307,832
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 MOVILAND MET SRL CUI: 33559735 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,500,894 750,447 839,604
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 BAVIMIN SRL CUI: 14709887 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 20 1,259,328 62,966 290,063
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 BAVIMIN SRL CUI: 14709887 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 11 1,210,845 110,077 344,859
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 TANCRAD SRL CUI: 8006670 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 3 1,153,990 384,663 549,903
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 759 945,825 1,246 58,127
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 DEEA TERMO GR SRL CUI: 36119259 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 7 939,494 134,213 217,054
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 BAVIMIN SRL CUI: 14709887 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 24 931,613 38,817 172,903
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 LNM FOREX SRL CUI: 30191999 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 10 913,500 91,350 176,000
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 DEEA TERMO GR SRL CUI: 36119259 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 8 910,865 113,858 186,939
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 715 814,815 1,140 35,441
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 SOFT COMPREST SRL CUI: 2039325 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 47 683,340 14,539 53,780
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 LNM FOREX SRL CUI: 30191999 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 4 608,600 152,150 197,600
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 301 605,553 2,012 19,010
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 430 594,012 1,381 26,633
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 SOFT COMPREST SRL CUI: 2039325 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 61 565,605 9,272 39,474
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 SOFT COMPREST SRL CUI: 2039325 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 44 543,317 12,348 61,598
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 328 534,422 1,629 18,763
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 LNM FOREX SRL CUI: 30191999 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 530,000 176,667 250,000
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 TERASAMENT CONCEPT SRL CUI: 31478910 772 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 28 463,925 16,569 62,500
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 TANCRAD SRL CUI: 8006670 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 456,691 152,230 180,000
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 GROUP COMERCIAL AFACERI ROMAN SRL CUI: 48167357 445 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 7 446,042 63,720 160,650
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 SOFT COMPREST SRL CUI: 2039325 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 29 403,649 13,919 35,688
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 440 402,450 915 27,377
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 216 390,100 1,806 26,927

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Contracting authority
The authority that made the purchases. It had to run a tender once the ceiling was passed.
Supplier
The company that received every purchase in the group.
CPV group
The first three digits of the CPV code: the family of goods or services bought.
Contract type
Supply, services or works. The type and the date set the ceiling, shown under the type.
Year
The year of publication. In 2018 and 2022, when the ceiling changed, the year holds two groups, with the period shown under the year.
Direct purchases
How many direct purchases the group holds (at least two).
Cumulative value
The group's purchases added up. This is compared with the ceiling.
Average per purchase
The cumulative value divided by the number of purchases. A small average beside a large total is the typical sign of slicing.
Largest purchase
The largest purchase in the group. If it sits just below the ceiling, see indicator #02 too.
Opens the group's direct purchases: same authority, supplier, CPV group, year and contract type.

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/reference/years
  • /api/v1/reference/contract-types
  • /api/v1/red-flags/fractionare
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/fractionare/cpv-spend

Open data and API