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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

21

Cumulative flagged value

7.10 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.1

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 PECICA CUI: 3519550 ELECTRO - CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9122494 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 955,089 477,545 863,984 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 IDEA PRO SRL CUI: 9090996 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 6 608,780 101,463 235,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 TERM SRL CUI: 9569400 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 540,000 270,000 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 PRO ARHITECTURA SRL CUI: 17754300 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 515,000 257,500 264,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 TERM SRL CUI: 9569400 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 507,417 253,709 270,119 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 ROMACTIV BUSINESS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 15203674 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 490,000 245,000 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 VARTEL MOBILE SRL CUI: 42017482 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 4 326,205 81,551 140,532 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 ROMACTIV BUSINESS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 15203674 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 320,000 160,000 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 D & L GUARD ELITE SECURITY SRL CUI: 35251455 797 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 317,380 105,793 269,148 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 D & L GUARD ELITE SECURITY SRL CUI: 35251455 797 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 3 291,136 97,045 248,288 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 COMPLETE SALES SRL CUI: 27209050 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 4 261,060 65,265 131,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 DROMCONS SRL CUI: 15624428 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 258,500 86,167 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 D & L GUARD ELITE SECURITY SRL CUI: 35251455 797 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 5 241,016 48,203 174,296 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 COMPLETE SALES SRL CUI: 27209050 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 7 236,060 33,723 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 COMPLETE SALES SRL CUI: 27209050 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 6 231,840 38,640 124,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 BALAS VIOREL-MIHAI - SPECIALIST IN CADASTRU GEODEZIE CARTOGRAFIE CUI: 27749786 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 8 214,806 26,851 89,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 BALAS VIOREL-MIHAI - SPECIALIST IN CADASTRU GEODEZIE CARTOGRAFIE CUI: 27749786 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 165,400 82,700 87,900 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 ROMACTIV BUSINESS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 15203674 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 6 161,970 26,995 61,970 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 DOT STRUCTURAL PROJECT SRL CUI: 37408387 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 160,000 80,000 105,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 ELECTRO - CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9122494 316 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 152,006 50,669 122,372 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS PECICA CUI: 3519550 BALAS VIOREL-MIHAI - SPECIALIST IN CADASTRU GEODEZIE CARTOGRAFIE CUI: 27749786 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 13 145,532 11,195 67,032 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