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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

25

Cumulative flagged value

17.22 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.5

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
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 FINCODRUM SA CUI: 24796449 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 6 4,505,404 750,901 885,760
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 RS ACTIV SRL CUI: 17296459 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 6 4,044,347 674,058 900,055
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 FINCODRUM SA CUI: 24796449 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 10 2,150,151 215,015 442,869
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 AG SERV CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 7520051 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 8 903,524 112,941 321,625
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 SOS SEPTEMBER INOVATION SRL CUI: 40643846 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 696,025 232,008 443,144
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 FLASH LIGHTING SERVICES SA CUI: 13845929 502 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 445,920 111,480 160,260
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 CAUCAZUL MARE COMAL SRL CUI: 8841726 773 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 354,155 177,078 269,600
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 CAUCAZUL MARE COMAL SRL CUI: 8841726 773 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 353,093 176,547 268,538
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 CAUCAZUL MARE COMAL SRL CUI: 8841726 773 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 340,356 113,452 209,588
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 349 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 4 333,800 83,450 269,400
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 C15 CAPITAL PARTNERS SRL CUI: 25901151 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 332,500 110,833 127,000
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 EXPERT INFOCAD SRL CUI: 30730031 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 12 268,880 22,407 97,500
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 EXPERT INFOCAD SRL CUI: 30730031 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 12 250,820 20,902 135,000
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 PUPAZA CRISTIAN - EXPERT TEHNIC CUI: 29586375 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 9 234,300 26,033 134,400
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 EXPERT INFOCAD SRL CUI: 30730031 713 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 230,350 57,588 130,000
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 PUPAZA CRISTIAN - EXPERT TEHNIC CUI: 29586375 713 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 219,810 54,953 131,040
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 CAUCAZUL MARE COMAL SRL CUI: 8841726 773 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 6 211,891 35,315 111,982
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 PUPAZA CRISTIAN - EXPERT TEHNIC CUI: 29586375 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 9 211,443 23,494 133,200
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 PUPAZA CRISTIAN - EXPERT TEHNIC CUI: 29586375 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 5 204,000 40,800 134,400
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 PUPAZA CRISTIAN - EXPERT TEHNIC CUI: 29586375 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 12 180,050 15,004 39,600
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 MORPHOSIS SRL CUI: 9829607 714 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 169,900 84,950 116,900
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 TOPOMAP EXPERT SRL CUI: 21940514 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 147,854 49,285 84,907
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 FLASH LIGHTING SERVICES SA CUI: 13845929 502 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 4 147,839 36,960 47,000
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 STARCONSTRUCT JUDIT SRL CUI: 25380550 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 147,600 73,800 75,600
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 COMPANIA NATIONALA POSTA ROMANA SA CUI: 427410 641 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 135,244 67,622 135,000

1-25 of 25 results

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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