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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

16

Cumulative flagged value

3.92 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

2.5

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
COMUNA NICOLAE BALCESCU CUI: 4515840 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 510,502 170,167 255,060
COMUNA CHIRNOGENI CUI: 6483311 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 385,373 128,458 135,000
COMUNA INDEPENDENTA CUI: 6228149 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 333,097 111,032 120,963
MUNICIPIUL MEDGIDIA CUI: 4301456 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 323,384 107,795 270,000
COMUNA RASOVA CUI: 4514675 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 305,770 101,923 116,701
COMUNA CUZA VODA CUI: 16432269 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 285,000 142,500 150,000
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 6398771 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 260,944 86,981 129,444
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 6398771 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 209,853 69,951 100,000
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 6398771 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 200,000 100,000 100,000
COMUNA PANTELIMON CUI: 5806791 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 172,072 57,357 72,072
COMUNA MIRCEA VODA CUI: 4514632 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 170,840 85,420 100,000
COMUNA RASOVA CUI: 4514675 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 170,410 85,205 130,410
COMUNA RASOVA CUI: 4514675 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 2 164,599 82,300 124,599
COMUNA CHIRNOGENI CUI: 6483311 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 158,464 79,232 100,000
COMUNA VULTURU CUI: 5806830 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 139,060 69,530 100,000
COMUNA RASOVA CUI: 4514675 TOP GEOCAD SRL CUI: 14895950 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 135,487 67,744 105,487

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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.
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