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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

18

Cumulative flagged value

12.88 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

8.1

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
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 ELESAL SRL CUI: 16376681 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 8 1,454,999 181,875 404,377 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 TECH SCHEMATIC SRL CUI: 26499207 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 4 1,450,241 362,560 900,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 EDIL MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 15100997 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 18 1,397,517 77,640 689,661 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 DRUMURI BIHOR SA CUI: 10980670 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 4 1,121,730 280,433 425,443 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 KISZOL INDUSTRIES SRL CUI: 36290134 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 22 979,270 44,512 143,013 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 DRUMURI BIHOR SA CUI: 10980670 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 6 979,075 163,179 404,140 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 ELESAL SRL CUI: 16376681 453 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 2 932,000 466,000 900,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 EDIL MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 15100997 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 10 919,465 91,947 276,175 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 EDIL MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 15100997 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 21 778,170 37,056 145,560 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 ACTUAL VEST CONSULT SRL CUI: 33826166 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 16 745,000 46,563 100,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 EDIL MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 15100997 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 10 740,777 74,078 373,564 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 RESQ CONSULTING SRL CUI: 26234161 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 292,000 97,333 120,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 3 CONS SRL CUI: 3758507 715 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 6 282,800 47,133 100,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 MANDREDI SRL CUI: 24296737 142 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 5 205,000 41,000 52,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 DIRCONS SRL CUI: 17432526 715 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 169,600 84,800 85,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 RONO AQUA SRL CUI: 17073600 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 154,000 51,333 57,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 EXOPROIECT SRL CUI: 30134446 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 140,000 70,000 70,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SALONTA CUI: 4593423 LIGIACONS SRL CUI: 7504340 715 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 4 139,300 34,825 99,500 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