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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

59

Cumulative flagged value

17.71 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

35.7

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
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 AGRO-ROMARCHI SRL CUI: 15189260 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 6 1,052,872 175,479 270,000
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 AGRO-ROMARCHI SRL CUI: 15189260 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 8 1,033,066 129,133 268,260
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 AGRO-ROMARCHI SRL CUI: 15189260 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 10 991,739 99,174 266,800
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 75 868,496 11,580 212,669
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 77 754,595 9,800 269,774
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 82 705,349 8,602 256,398
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 71 622,194 8,763 259,726
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ORANGE ROMANIA SA CUI: 9010105 642 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 471,374 235,687 235,842
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 XALLO TEHNIC SRL CUI: 32069301 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 5 450,000 90,000 90,000
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 CHIMWEST SRL CUI: 23764546 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 19 380,775 20,041 129,310
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 446 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 10 340,154 34,015 248,400
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 NEW PRO TOOLS SRL CUI: 42181727 445 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 199 331,248 1,665 39,600
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ACS INSTAL SRL CUI: 24579350 302 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 31 325,445 10,498 113,300
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 EXCOR SERV SRL CUI: 14644869 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 27 320,610 11,874 19,120
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ROMIR RULMENTI SRL CUI: 48565514 422 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 3 317,804 105,935 136,200
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 33 293,958 8,908 129,987
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ROMIR RULMENTI SRL CUI: 48565514 445 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 30 292,218 9,741 270,000
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 446 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 5 289,387 57,877 252,300
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 446 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 8 285,486 35,686 190,520
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ALL ARFATIM SRL CUI: 39563883 312 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 166 284,676 1,715 155,226
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 ARTICA SRL CUI: 1823404 181 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 50 284,269 5,685 186,150
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 446 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 12 282,651 23,554 198,000
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 XALLO TEHNIC SRL CUI: 32069301 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 280,000 70,000 70,000
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 DRAIV INVEST SRL CUI: 37500951 452 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 2 276,771 138,386 172,176
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 EXCOR SERV SRL CUI: 14644869 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 24 271,880 11,328 23,400

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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