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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

20

Cumulative flagged value

8.24 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.1

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
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 VARKATA SRL CUI: 49589503 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 5 1,198,028 239,606 899,998 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 CPV ELECTRONIC SRL CUI: 19207270 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 8 929,467 116,183 364,523 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 VALEX ORIZONT SRL CUI: 28527931 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 869,915 289,972 419,707 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 EURODRUM COM SRL CUI: 17714993 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 525,000 262,500 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 NOVA RUSTIC SRL CUI: 37592335 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 467,200 233,600 414,900 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 COSTIN SI VLAD BIROU DE PROIECTARE SRL CUI: 36586033 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 465,000 232,500 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 AMPER GRUP SRL CUI: 17998658 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 15 463,703 30,914 124,821 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 STARCAD SRL CUI: 22176866 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 439,000 109,750 125,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 STARCAD SRL CUI: 22176866 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 4 411,920 102,980 150,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 YELLOW MTE SRL CUI: 35115526 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 3 358,500 119,500 128,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 MONOSERV GRIP SRL CUI: 37428481 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 296,000 148,000 148,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 STARCAD SRL CUI: 22176866 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 6 247,600 41,267 90,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 GEOREPER SRL CUI: 39221856 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 4 243,000 60,750 78,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 PRO XPERT CONSULTING SRL CUI: 21580474 722 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 219,600 109,800 109,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 MARBO CONSTRUCT CONSULT SRL CUI: 28039043 715 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 208,900 52,225 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 MARBO CONSTRUCT CONSULT SRL CUI: 28039043 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 6 197,994 32,999 70,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 DEPARTAMENTUL PROIECTARE SRL CUI: 34192750 715 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 187,500 93,750 98,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 ELROY PMCONSULTING SRL CUI: 44912335 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 180,000 90,000 120,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 STARCAD SRL CUI: 22176866 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 172,500 43,125 60,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 MERCEAN FELICIAN VASILE PERSOANA FIZICA AUTORIZATA CUI: 36406884 713 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 160,000 80,000 128,000 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