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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

16

Cumulative flagged value

12.11 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.8

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

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

Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 LUCMAR PERFORMANCE SRL CUI: 39571185 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 7 1,973,804 281,972 794,230
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 COMPREST INTERMED SRL CUI: 34312740 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 4 1,871,896 467,974 895,010
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 LUCMAR PERFORMANCE SRL CUI: 39571185 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 20 1,117,432 55,872 195,893
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 COMPREST INTERMED SRL CUI: 34312740 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,060,587 353,529 694,556
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 BVA SERVICII SRL CUI: 30941845 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 4 1,003,270 250,818 349,198
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 CONEXTRUST SA CUI: 947730 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 6 847,540 141,257 334,844
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 LUCMAR PERFORMANCE SRL CUI: 39571185 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 7 628,553 89,793 164,096
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 CONEXTRUST SA CUI: 947730 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 604,873 302,437 315,663
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 UNICUTILAJ SRL CUI: 32400625 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 3 582,503 194,168 294,211
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 LUCMAR PERFORMANCE SRL CUI: 39571185 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 8 581,987 72,748 132,848
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 LUCMAR PERFORMANCE SRL CUI: 39571185 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 8 531,504 66,438 107,838
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 DRUM PROIECT SRL CUI: 4277846 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 6 418,932 69,822 270,000
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 TRUST PROIECT SRL CUI: 17844179 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 275,000 137,500 270,000
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 DRUM PROIECT SRL CUI: 4277846 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 272,101 136,051 270,000
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 DRUM PROIECT SRL CUI: 4277846 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 8 200,066 25,008 100,170
COMUNA BALCANI CUI: 4278027 TOPO-SISTEM SRL CUI: 15960827 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 3 136,355 45,452 61,500

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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.
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