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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

14

Cumulative flagged value

2.46 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

22.9

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

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

Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 FIBOPLAST SRL CUI: 30410118 395 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 4 264,842 66,211 123,190
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 THREE PHARM SRL CUI: 26361386 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 18 207,234 11,513 21,323
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 COMPANIA NATIONALA UNIFARM SA CUI: 11653560 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 36 201,320 5,592 39,285
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 PAUL HARTMANN SRL CUI: 3102390 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 49 194,828 3,976 83,400
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 33 182,434 5,528 46,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 COMPANIA NATIONALA UNIFARM SA CUI: 11653560 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 32 179,435 5,607 25,104
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 PAUL HARTMANN SRL CUI: 3102390 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 30 168,910 5,630 49,640
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 PAUL HARTMANN SRL CUI: 3102390 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 35 165,269 4,722 51,200
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 11 164,169 14,924 118,162
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 FILDAS TRADING SRL CUI: 4851409 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 13 156,486 12,037 46,236
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 PAUL HARTMANN SRL CUI: 3102390 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 29 150,048 5,174 100,528
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 THREE PHARM SRL CUI: 26361386 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 27 147,279 5,455 20,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 LIMAS GROUP SRL CUI: 11013782 351 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 2 142,000 71,000 130,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTE PENTRU COPII SF MARIA CUI: 4701339 HARGITA HOLDING IMPORT-EXPORT SRL CUI: 2881330 349 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 2 137,040 68,520 121,180

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
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.
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