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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

21

Cumulative flagged value

18.14 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.0

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
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 REMERO FIL SA CUI: 12911480 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 4 2,953,257 738,314 898,715 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 APAZOL TRANS SRL CUI: 9179725 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 4 2,543,175 635,794 880,722 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 APAZOL TRANS SRL CUI: 9179725 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 5 1,689,517 337,903 697,665 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 REMERO FIL SA CUI: 12911480 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 4 1,257,176 314,294 899,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 APAZOL TRANS SRL CUI: 9179725 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,227,785 613,893 896,325 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 APAZOL TRANS SRL CUI: 9179725 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,167,355 583,678 879,348 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 SERVICE AUTO SERUS SRL CUI: 1316 341 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 5 1,159,943 231,989 266,050 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 APAZOL TRANS SRL CUI: 9179725 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,032,534 344,178 694,257 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 REMERO FIL SA CUI: 12911480 505 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 5 665,234 133,047 268,273 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 CHIMCOMPLEX SA BORZESTI CUI: 960322 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 14 592,443 42,317 81,360 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 SERVICE AUTO SERUS SRL CUI: 1316 341 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 500,601 250,301 268,630 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 CHIMCOMPLEX SA BORZESTI CUI: 960322 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 14 399,464 28,533 40,139 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 ELSACO ESCO SRL CUI: 16396697 793 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 380,000 190,000 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 NOATELLI & CO SRL CUI: 36406370 425 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 2 351,273 175,637 236,683 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 CHIMCOMPLEX SA BORZESTI CUI: 960322 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 10 331,548 33,155 55,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 RECOP RECYCLING SRL CUI: 31066129 905 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 3 324,148 108,049 214,250 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 EUDIS SA CUI: 7895515 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 3 318,645 106,215 139,950 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 SPH3RA MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 41312689 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 317,741 158,871 248,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 DIGI ROMANIA SA CUI: 5888716 724 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 315,708 105,236 203,665 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 CHIMCOMPLEX SA BORZESTI CUI: 960322 243 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 10 311,487 31,149 48,855 See the direct purchases behind this group
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 EDICHIM SRL CUI: 934544 249 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 6 298,500 49,750 60,500 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