Artificial slicing of direct purchases

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