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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

99

Cumulative flagged value

106.51 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

6.0

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
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 24 7,567,779 315,324 445,248 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 12 4,562,675 380,223 450,167 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 21 4,328,350 206,112 436,624 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 7 3,798,746 542,678 900,346 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 6 2,956,261 492,710 899,122 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 ACVATOT SRL CUI: 13906 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 9 2,858,984 317,665 449,574 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 ACVATOT SRL CUI: 13906 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 7 2,834,872 404,982 445,933 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 EAST POINT ENERGY SRL CUI: 17046193 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 6 2,669,138 444,856 867,462 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 SMART GENERAL CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 3020800 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 11 2,577,133 234,285 441,176 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 ORIZONT SERVICES SRL CUI: 19084762 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 6 2,538,854 423,142 752,043 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 COSTALEX CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 9813902 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 5 2,214,961 442,992 748,756 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 SMART GENERAL CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 3020800 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 11 2,133,049 193,914 443,982 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 ORIZONT SERVICES SRL CUI: 19084762 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 13 1,938,454 149,112 373,778 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 EAST POINT ENERGY SRL CUI: 17046193 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 8 1,725,774 215,722 449,310 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 INNDESIGN MOBILIER SRL CUI: 15712457 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,703,591 851,796 877,646 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 ORIZONT SERVICES SRL CUI: 19084762 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 7 1,690,900 241,557 440,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 UPPER LEVEL SRL CUI: 30153499 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 3 1,679,455 559,818 756,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 FAST ECOTRANS SRL CUI: 35873865 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,644,960 822,480 823,960 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 UPPER LEVEL SRL CUI: 30153499 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 3 1,544,650 514,883 704,390 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 EAST POINT ENERGY SRL CUI: 17046193 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 4 1,528,166 382,042 488,673 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 INNDESIGN MOBILIER SRL CUI: 15712457 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,526,323 763,162 877,786 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 EAST POINT ENERGY SRL CUI: 17046193 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 1,402,562 701,281 900,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 CONSTRUCT & ACTING SRL CUI: 16634489 454 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,401,963 700,982 869,552 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 EAST POINT ENERGY SRL CUI: 17046193 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 6 1,392,708 232,118 443,088 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 LIKE CONSULTING SRL CUI: 35247993 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 10 1,384,453 138,445 268,908 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