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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

180

Cumulative flagged value

56.13 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

23.1

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

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
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 51 1,365,297 26,771 98,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 39 1,124,298 28,828 87,500
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDIPLUS EXIM SRL CUI: 9311280 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 24 973,486 40,562 241,500
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 58 964,377 16,627 84,562
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDIPLUS EXIM SRL CUI: 9311280 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 150 954,410 6,363 81,746
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 SANTE INTERNATIONAL SA CUI: 3210015 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 10 802,020 80,202 148,500
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 57 768,079 13,475 79,121
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 37 751,605 20,314 91,500
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 22 750,775 34,126 117,527
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 ROMASTRU TRADING SRL CUI: 6769462 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 6 731,806 121,968 225,766
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MED PHARMA CARE SRL CUI: 39805189 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 28 683,393 24,407 59,040
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 40 665,137 16,628 49,407
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 13 614,665 47,282 223,062
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 COMPANIA NATIONALA UNIFARM SA CUI: 11653560 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 42 587,853 13,997 80,304
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 FRESENIUS KABI ROMANIA SRL CUI: 3391027 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 21 573,563 27,313 154,666
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 88 568,295 6,458 70,826
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 126 565,331 4,487 35,388
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 82 541,660 6,606 48,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 EXIMIA MEDICAL SRL CUI: 39470890 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 18 535,600 29,756 165,600
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 50 525,905 10,518 138,408
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 40 525,012 13,125 71,616
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 JOHNSON & JOHNSON ROMANIA SRL CUI: 27452199 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 32 494,531 15,454 46,678
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 CARDIOTECH SRL CUI: 41111260 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 12 492,655 41,055 261,800
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 TEHNIC GROUP SAB - TGS SRL CUI: 14793771 398 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 5 492,581 98,516 187,705
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 TEHNO ELECTRO MEDICAL COMPANY SRL CUI: 217930 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 31 472,087 15,229 123,333

1-25 of 180 results

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