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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

90

Cumulative flagged value

57.74 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

8.5

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

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

Artificial slicing of direct purchases
Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase Purchases
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ADDA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 13939713 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 2,696,850 898,950 899,400 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 SMART TREND SRL CUI: 18747506 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 4 2,693,968 673,492 897,897 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 SMART TREND SRL CUI: 18747506 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 7 2,628,871 375,553 874,356 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 SMART TREND SRL CUI: 18747506 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 4 2,207,063 551,766 891,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,795,270 897,635 899,655 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,790,750 895,375 896,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ADDA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 13939713 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 1,636,750 818,375 898,750 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ADDA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 13939713 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,602,184 801,092 897,620 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ADDA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 13939713 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 3 1,495,117 498,372 896,240 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 13 1,420,733 109,287 264,420 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 SMART TREND SRL CUI: 18747506 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 6 1,411,628 235,271 464,664 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 SMART TREND SRL CUI: 18747506 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 6 1,347,971 224,662 639,050 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 15 1,318,667 87,911 262,940 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ADDA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 13939713 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 4 1,255,023 313,756 450,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ALBANIC SERVICE SRL CUI: 15172365 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,247,133 623,567 900,269 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 444 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 6 1,145,269 190,878 269,784 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ALBANIC SERVICE SRL CUI: 15172365 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 3 1,023,212 341,071 718,644 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 10 1,021,075 102,108 263,840 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 444 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 5 976,318 195,264 269,784 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 16 974,568 60,911 211,680 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WILO TRANS SRL CUI: 7476940 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 24 951,118 39,630 160,305 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 444 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 939,822 234,956 269,053 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 ANDALUZIA SRL CUI: 19062748 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 895,000 447,500 450,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WILO TRANS SRL CUI: 7476940 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 6 884,733 147,456 225,561 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 15 869,500 57,967 229,800 See the direct purchases behind this group

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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.
Purchases
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