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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

37

Cumulative flagged value

22.49 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.3

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 SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GEIGER TRANSILVANIA SRL CUI: 8844358 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 10 1,864,054 186,405 441,176 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GREENSTECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 43086090 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 8 1,859,537 232,442 547,899 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 BAAND PRODUCT SRL CUI: 1764855 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 10 1,305,183 130,518 409,147 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GEIGER TRANSILVANIA SRL CUI: 8844358 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 4 1,270,769 317,692 449,197 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GEIGER TRANSILVANIA SRL CUI: 8844358 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 7 1,173,884 167,698 388,555 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 BAAND PRODUCT SRL CUI: 1764855 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 4 1,167,223 291,806 824,235 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GREENSTECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 43086090 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 4 1,132,253 283,063 441,102 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 BAAND PRODUCT SRL CUI: 1764855 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 6 955,276 159,213 445,178 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GREENSTECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 43086090 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 4 938,567 234,642 376,470 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 7 888,500 126,929 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GREENSTECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 43086090 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 5 849,561 169,912 327,731 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 13 716,000 55,077 200,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 21 693,500 33,024 80,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 STRUCTURALIA PROIECT SRL CUI: 48143250 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 5 690,000 138,000 240,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 INSTA GRUP SA CUI: 9808027 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 672,287 336,144 428,956 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 GEIGER TRANSILVANIA SRL CUI: 8844358 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 5 627,945 125,589 392,601 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 BAAND PRODUCT SRL CUI: 1764855 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 4 574,075 143,519 444,110 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 SOVILUX SRL CUI: 16718148 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 573,684 286,842 370,607 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 9 470,000 52,222 170,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 ONE CAD STUDIO SRL CUI: 32057544 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 384,000 128,000 250,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 345,000 86,250 125,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 STRUCTURALIA OFFICE SRL CUI: 46601122 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 340,000 113,333 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 ARHIGRAF SRL CUI: 6030957 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 327,044 163,522 218,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 CENTRUL GENERAL DE ARHIVARE SRL CUI: 25479783 799 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 270,000 135,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SOVATA CUI: 4436895 MEDIA MARKETING SRL CUI: 13261261 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 8 260,000 32,500 130,000 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