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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

18

Cumulative flagged value

8.17 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

3.2

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
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 TRANSMIR SRL CUI: 10400632 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 7 1,934,395 276,342 428,230 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 THOT TECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 37967877 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 859,495 429,748 429,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 THOT TECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 37967877 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 858,064 429,032 429,646 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 TRANSMIR SRL CUI: 10400632 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 778,006 389,003 422,026 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 SC LUCRARI DRUMURI SI PODURI SA VASLUI CUI: 10946600 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 671,759 223,920 394,645 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 SOVCADLEX SRL CUI: 31082558 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 6 409,900 68,317 264,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 THOT TECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 37967877 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 404,500 134,833 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 BOGDAN M DORU INSPECTOR SANTIER SRL CUI: 38802311 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 308,000 77,000 85,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 SOVCADLEX SRL CUI: 31082558 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 4 288,684 72,171 134,453 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 PAO INTERNATIONAL GROUP SRL CUI: 37362956 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 256,460 128,230 129,960 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 NOMCRIS CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28185863 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 239,244 119,622 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 NOMCRIS CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28185863 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 195,044 97,522 109,244 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 TRANSMIR SRL CUI: 10400632 142 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 178,560 59,520 108,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 TOPOGEOTEHNICS SRL CUI: 15482617 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 5 173,220 34,644 132,825 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 BOGDAN M DORU INSPECTOR SANTIER SRL CUI: 38802311 715 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 165,100 82,550 82,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 ARHIV CAO BUSINESS SRL CUI: 39934787 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 163,500 81,750 96,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 NOMCRIS CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28185863 716 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 149,311 74,656 77,311 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS MURGENI CUI: 3337710 MITALIS QUALITY TEAM SRL CUI: 36707364 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 5 136,000 27,200 35,000 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