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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

22

Cumulative flagged value

10.76 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.9

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
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIDE COM-SERV SRL CUI: 2290067 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 9 1,462,412 162,490 205,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 MATRIX URBAN PROCONS SRL CUI: 36234584 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 4 1,428,200 357,050 445,300 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 AMF CONS SERV FLUX SRL CUI: 35188145 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 3 1,320,420 440,140 839,916 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 MATRIX URBAN PROCONS SRL CUI: 36234584 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 736,055 368,028 376,983 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 MATRIX URBAN PROCONS SRL CUI: 36234584 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 650,980 325,490 400,480 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIK ART SERV CONS SRL CUI: 33913688 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 609,800 304,900 400,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 6 477,350 79,558 269,750 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 CONSULTING CONS INGINER SRL CUI: 17027663 715 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 5 441,996 88,399 214,664 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 417,100 104,275 267,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 AXAVEST ENGINEERING SRL CUI: 31867445 715 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 4 374,500 93,625 204,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIDE COM-SERV SRL CUI: 2290067 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 364,000 121,333 255,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIDE COM-SERV SRL CUI: 2290067 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 325,900 108,633 165,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 10 318,500 31,850 84,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 8 300,635 37,579 82,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 ANCIP CONSULT SRL CUI: 27757002 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 9 275,800 30,644 50,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIDE COM-SERV SRL CUI: 2290067 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 207,563 103,782 124,790 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 203,825 50,956 131,350 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 4 192,350 48,088 134,750 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 7 184,317 26,331 42,017 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 NIDE COM-SERV SRL CUI: 2290067 799 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 171,949 42,987 84,034 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 DAM TOPOCAD CONS SRL CUI: 34268580 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 10 155,150 15,515 29,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 ARCHISTUDIO SRL CUI: 18844274 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 143,600 47,867 126,000 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