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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

61

Cumulative flagged value

18.69 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

42.8

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
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 114 1,255,655 11,015 150,940
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 PRION POCT SRL CUI: 25426886 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 35 794,000 22,686 49,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 128 679,159 5,306 238,780
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 GEOMATICA SRL CUI: 16887040 799 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 4 657,880 164,470 252,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 ICARE MEDICAL PROVIDER SRL CUI: 36363570 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 5 579,000 115,800 117,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 144 578,641 4,018 150,531
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 90 540,168 6,002 180,637
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 PRION POCT SRL CUI: 25426886 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 33 530,500 16,076 48,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 MEDIPLUS EXIM SRL CUI: 9311280 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 115 496,583 4,318 62,053
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 108 464,541 4,301 151,425
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 125 393,052 3,144 57,982
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 EUROPHARM HOLDING SA CUI: 6567900 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 19 383,285 20,173 168,260
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 59 381,925 6,473 23,650
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 INTERMED GRUP DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 48573207 392 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 52 368,214 7,081 22,680
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 INTERMED GRUP DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 48573207 392 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 59 360,471 6,110 19,950
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 87 347,263 3,992 46,305
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 84 336,400 4,005 58,956
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 PRISUM HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 5919650 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 24 335,943 13,998 42,261
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 109 323,947 2,972 58,950
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 CIVAROL TRADING SRL CUI: 32852272 155 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 9 321,347 35,705 63,728
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 87 309,103 3,553 32,158
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FRESENIUS KABI ROMANIA SRL CUI: 3391027 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 21 299,306 14,253 29,293
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 54 288,941 5,351 54,471
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 20 285,477 14,274 131,500
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 47 285,230 6,069 33,300

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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