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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

20

Cumulative flagged value

5.76 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

10.9

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
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 AVIOTRADE SERVICE SRL CUI: 22211726 445 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 57 484,651 8,503 198,240 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 FUTURE LINE INSTAL SRL CUI: 18830 507 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 421,454 105,364 201,250 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 VERONA LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 26119340 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 5 412,424 82,485 171,228 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ARIES COMERT & INDUSTRIE SRL CUI: 30688700 356 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 385,000 192,500 192,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ROMCHIM PROTECT SRL CUI: 10167619 249 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 371,200 185,600 208,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 VERONA LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 26119340 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 3 360,521 120,174 209,608 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 AVIOTRADE SERVICE SRL CUI: 22211726 445 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 34 360,025 10,589 59,512 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ROMCHIM PROTECT SRL CUI: 10167619 249 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 3 344,930 114,977 197,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 AVIOTRADE SERVICE SRL CUI: 22211726 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 17 333,581 19,622 192,170 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ALBALACT SA CUI: 1755369 155 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 7 300,078 42,868 49,680 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ARIES COMERT & INDUSTRIE SRL CUI: 30688700 343 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 299,876 99,959 235,880 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 AVIOTRADE SERVICE SRL CUI: 22211726 311 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 4 272,382 68,096 212,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ALBALACT SA CUI: 1755369 155 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 5 218,589 43,718 84,522 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ALBALACT SA CUI: 1755369 155 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 10 215,970 21,597 45,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ROMCHIM PROTECT SRL CUI: 10167619 249 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 3 207,360 69,120 90,720 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 ALBALACT SA CUI: 1755369 155 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 169,989 42,497 67,465 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 OFFICE MAX SRL CUI: 10839469 301 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 16 167,320 10,458 62,136 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 EUROSPEED SRL CUI: 13069275 501 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 7 153,745 21,964 66,421 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 DEDEMAN SRL CUI: 2816464 391 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 5 149,298 29,860 60,933 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNITATEA MILITARA 01912 CUI: 32582462 LINDE GAZ ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8721959 241 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 27 135,336 5,012 12,751 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