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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

17

Cumulative flagged value

5.13 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.3

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
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 GEO MYKE SRL CUI: 8642901 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 505,088 252,544 265,088 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BETA RG TRUST SRL CUI: 39612382 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 5 451,375 90,275 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BRIGE STONE BUILD SRL CUI: 24967999 142 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 6 444,888 74,148 134,976 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BETA RG TRUST SRL CUI: 39612382 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 403,988 134,663 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 GEO MYKE SRL CUI: 8642901 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 3 390,000 130,000 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 PRO CONSULTING EXPERT SRL CUI: 34761995 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 3 370,000 123,333 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 THIRD NEST SRL CUI: 37147516 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 295,000 147,500 158,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BRIGE STONE BUILD SRL CUI: 24967999 142 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 289,450 72,363 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 CEM PROJECT LOGISTICS SRL CUI: 38208069 142 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 279,050 93,017 251,900 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BRIGE STONE BUILD SRL CUI: 24967999 142 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 5 274,135 54,827 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BRIGE STONE BUILD SRL CUI: 24967999 142 furnizare ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 259,992 129,996 129,996 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 PRO CONSULTING EXPERT SRL CUI: 34761995 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 250,000 125,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BETA RG TRUST SRL CUI: 39612382 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 7 242,500 34,643 125,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BETA RG TRUST SRL CUI: 39612382 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 6 197,700 32,950 57,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BUSNEA I ANCA-SPECIALIST CADASTRU GEODEZIE SI CARTOGRAFIE CUI: 39446549 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 11 173,750 15,795 134,950 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 ADEMIS IMPEX SRL CUI: 9107168 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 165,000 55,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SIPOTE CUI: 4540291 BUSNEA I ANCA-SPECIALIST CADASTRU GEODEZIE SI CARTOGRAFIE CUI: 39446549 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 6 139,871 23,312 134,371 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