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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

14

Cumulative flagged value

5.60 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.5

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
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 8 757,000 94,625 155,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 TOTAL NSA AG CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 36594214 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 2 701,159 350,580 431,729
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 ACC INFRASTRUCTURE SRL CUI: 29071263 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 5 519,400 103,880 167,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 ACC INFRASTRUCTURE SRL CUI: 29071263 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 513,000 171,000 187,500
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 TOTAL N S A SRL CUI: 9315010 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 2 501,631 250,816 401,817
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 10 406,200 40,620 152,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 403,500 100,875 129,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 URBA SRL CUI: 22905124 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 387,000 96,750 172,500
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 320,000 80,000 120,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 7 312,100 44,586 80,500
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 M TRUST SRL CUI: 21316074 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 235,900 78,633 99,900
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 MONTREPCOM SRL CUI: 1220985 799 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 199,000 99,500 100,000
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 PHOENIX COM SRL CUI: 15721757 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 6 186,700 31,117 71,400
ORASUL SALISTE CUI: 4306950 RENOVATIO TRADING SRL CUI: 15638008 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 3 161,952 53,984 130,380

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
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