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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

5.70 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

16.8

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
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 WAY RESEARCH SRL CUI: 41225558 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 529,000 176,333 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 AXR ARCHITECTURE SRL CUI: 35743067 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 500,000 250,000 250,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 CUBE STRUCTURE K-GROUP SRL CUI: 41509908 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 490,000 245,000 245,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 BALASOIU ANDREEA-RALUCA - BIROU INDIVIDUAL DE ARHITECTURA CUI: 31032711 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 414,000 138,000 243,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 PC INSTAL ELECTRONIC SECURITY SRL CUI: 26406461 453 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 25 378,419 15,137 105,405 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 PC INSTAL ELECTRONIC SECURITY SRL CUI: 26406461 453 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 31 372,730 12,024 57,815 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 FORT CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 21459260 450 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 8 326,227 40,778 102,199 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 TRITON IMPEX SRL CUI: 6602919 150 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 11 317,771 28,888 251,880 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 PC INSTAL ELECTRONIC SECURITY SRL CUI: 26406461 453 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 16 292,405 18,275 71,635 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 FORT CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 21459260 715 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 10 246,226 24,623 62,290 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 FORT CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 21459260 454 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 3 245,458 81,819 235,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 TRITON IMPEX SRL CUI: 6602919 150 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 45 241,675 5,371 129,960 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 TRITON IMPEX SRL CUI: 6602919 150 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 47 195,076 4,151 47,932 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 VODAFONE ROMANIA SA CUI: 8971726 642 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 193,335 96,668 141,826 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 TRITON IMPEX SRL CUI: 6602919 158 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 11 173,805 15,800 123,462 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 LUMINA FACTORY INC SRL CUI: 40470362 181 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 7 164,340 23,477 34,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 DANY CRIS 93 PAPETARIE SRL CUI: 3867881 301 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 58 162,510 2,802 17,850 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 FORT CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 21459260 715 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 13 160,414 12,340 33,883 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 REGIO MED SRL CUI: 31388540 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 148,800 49,600 78,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 ALPHANET SERVICE SRL CUI: 15569366 301 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 36 145,552 4,043 7,240 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