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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

12.31 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.2

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
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 INA STRADE TGA SRL CUI: 26009151 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 8 2,411,995 301,499 661,102 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 2 GMG CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 20713580 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 6 1,544,000 257,333 267,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PROGRESS ADVISORY ROMANIA SRL CUI: 22844442 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 7 1,296,000 185,143 248,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 INA STRADE TGA SRL CUI: 26009151 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 9 1,102,765 122,529 252,212 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PRENIS SRL CUI: 6698361 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 8 914,587 114,323 186,505 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 CANCIU A ALEXANDRU-CRISTIAN - CABINET AVOCATURA CUI: 26374920 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 5 535,400 107,080 149,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 RUSU O VLAD-SEBASTIAN - BIROU INDIVIDUAL DE ARHITECTURA CUI: 25713328 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 534,500 178,167 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PLAN MODEL SRL CUI: 37953510 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 526,000 263,000 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 DICO PINTEA SRL CUI: 35147633 715 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 5 416,838 83,368 194,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 2 GMG CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 20713580 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 3 377,416 125,805 127,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PROGRESS ADVISORY ROMANIA SRL CUI: 22844442 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 6 315,800 52,633 63,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PLAN MODEL SRL CUI: 37953510 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 306,500 153,250 195,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 TOMAD SRL CUI: 15195890 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 3 301,000 100,333 132,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 2 GMG CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 20713580 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 300,000 100,000 100,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 KNM RO SRL CUI: 37756756 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 300,000 150,000 240,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 PHILEX CONSULT SRL CUI: 42198648 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 298,000 149,000 149,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 VIAPLAN 44 OFFICE SRL CUI: 45654153 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 292,000 73,000 83,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 TEGRA PLUS SRL CUI: 35428817 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 240,000 120,000 120,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 ADAMS CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 4847122 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 147,200 73,600 97,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BLAJ CUI: 4563007 ABC DEVELOPMENT AVIATION SRL CUI: 22424546 983 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 146,165 73,083 97,488 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