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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

15.43 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.2

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
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 9 1,602,904 178,100 362,350 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 5 1,602,852 320,570 550,622 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 5 1,189,600 237,920 694,143 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 NICH2O SRL CUI: 31479281 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,182,784 394,261 542,120 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 5 1,173,376 234,675 815,689 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 7 1,114,679 159,240 445,234 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 5 1,042,531 208,506 449,449 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 12 1,039,507 86,626 392,748 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 PESEROAD SRL CUI: 36943241 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 7 763,750 109,107 266,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 9 751,464 83,496 449,987 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 7 576,996 82,428 444,788 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 LODOR CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 30227073 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 5 554,437 110,887 231,454 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 NICOLAESCU COM SRL CUI: 5347575 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 5 452,245 90,449 416,216 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 AVENSIS COMPANY SRL CUI: 15996871 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 367,000 183,500 197,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 BTA NORD GRUP SRL CUI: 33066281 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 4 351,950 87,988 268,950 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 AVENSIS COMPANY SRL CUI: 15996871 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 339,496 113,165 136,975 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 AVENSIS COMPANY SRL CUI: 15996871 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 325,350 108,450 116,850 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 CROMTEL MEDIA GROUP SRL CUI: 39213705 922 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 271,422 90,474 237,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 EVAL COM SRL CUI: 16408538 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 7 268,414 38,345 82,976 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 SERVICII COMUNALE SA CUI: 2563140 452 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 242,202 121,101 239,202 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL RADAUTI CUI: 4244148 ARYANA PROFARM SRL CUI: 18299747 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 2 213,455 106,728 209,560 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