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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

49

Cumulative flagged value

11.55 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

56.0

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
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 89 621,035 6,978 56,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ROMBIOMEDICA SRL CUI: 8936885 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 231 474,050 2,052 24,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 114 441,753 3,875 14,384 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 INTES TEXIS SRL CUI: 34870216 181 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 4 425,000 106,250 204,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 96 409,685 4,268 22,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 BOX LINE SRL CUI: 37856070 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 99 360,860 3,645 50,490 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 BOX LINE SRL CUI: 37856070 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 94 357,007 3,798 9,694 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 14 334,845 23,918 82,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ICONIKA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SRL CUI: 19119143 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 330,000 165,000 210,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 12 293,389 24,449 50,900 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ROMBIOMEDICA SRL CUI: 8936885 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 159 293,279 1,845 14,520 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 STERILECO SRL CUI: 15071999 905 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 13 293,230 22,556 40,050 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 81 290,359 3,585 43,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 93 283,331 3,047 9,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 SANROTEX TRADING SRL CUI: 32163740 184 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 12 282,230 23,519 53,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 PAUL HARTMANN SRL CUI: 3102390 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 185 276,108 1,492 10,830 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ROMBIOMEDICA SRL CUI: 8936885 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 184 264,138 1,436 50,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 79 263,468 3,335 11,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 DIRECT PHARMA LOGISTICS SRL CUI: 31647962 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 15 240,372 16,025 30,133 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ALPHA MEDICAL SRL CUI: 13878004 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 29 217,225 7,491 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ARTROMED CLASS SRL CUI: 28781289 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 2 212,000 106,000 132,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ALLIANCE IMPEX SRL CUI: 4277277 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 40 208,932 5,223 28,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 STERILECO SRL CUI: 15071999 905 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 13 208,270 16,021 29,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 DIRECT PHARMA LOGISTICS SRL CUI: 31647962 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 12 206,199 17,183 52,776 See the direct purchases behind this group
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 ROMBIOMEDICA SRL CUI: 8936885 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 124 205,051 1,654 25,800 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