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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

33

Cumulative flagged value

10.86 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 FANTANELE CUI: 3519526 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 870,209 435,105 438,510
COMUNA ZABRANI CUI: 3519216 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 806,050 403,025 436,084
COMUNA ZABRANI CUI: 3519216 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 735,753 245,251 423,201
COMUNA SANANDREI CUI: 5390656 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 453 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 733,735 366,868 389,527
ORASUL SOMCUTA MARE CUI: 3694829 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 565,833 188,611 204,234
ORASUL SOMCUTA MARE CUI: 3694829 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 486,152 243,076 247,989
MUZEUL JUDETEAN BOTOSANI CUI: 4013348 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 415,592 207,796 256,147
ORASUL TARGU FRUMOS CUI: 4541068 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 403,494 201,747 260,195
ORASUL SOMCUTA MARE CUI: 3694829 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 359,524 179,762 186,960
SPITALUL ORASENESC AGNITA CUI: 4241176 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 3 321,301 107,100 118,501
COMPLEXUL MUZEAL NATIONAL NEAMT CUI: 2613400 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 302,064 151,032 178,212
COMPLEXUL MUZEAL NATIONAL NEAMT CUI: 2613400 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 300,051 150,026 194,747
LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC TIMOTEI CIPARIU CUI: 4613776 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 291,254 97,085 190,104
CENTRUL SCOLAR DE EDUCATIE INCLUZIVA NR 2 SIBIU CUI: 4198670 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 291,043 145,522 185,426
COMUNA BATOS CUI: 5181030 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 289,911 144,956 149,677
COLEGIUL AGRICOL DANIIL POPOVICI BARCIANU SIBIU CUI: 4270694 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 279,368 139,684 261,223
SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA JUDETEAN BISTRITA-NASAUD CUI: 7641428 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 4 276,380 69,095 148,691
COLEGIUL AGRICOL DANIIL POPOVICI BARCIANU SIBIU CUI: 4270694 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 4 270,060 67,515 132,162
GRADINITA SPECIALA FALTICENI CUI: 15258742 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 260,257 130,129 173,857
MUNICIPIUL FAGARAS CUI: 4384419 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 244,581 81,527 102,325
ORAS SANTANA CUI: 3520121 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 091 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 205,455 102,728 134,854
AGENTIA DE PLATI SI INTERVENTIE PENTRU AGRICULTURA - CENTRUL JUDETEAN BOTOSANI CUI: 20851885 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 203,152 101,576 116,322
AGENTIA PENTRU PROTECTIA MEDIULUI ALBA CUI: 5531224 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 193,074 64,358 94,058
COMUNA BUHOCI CUI: 4455013 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 190,973 95,487 134,966
OFICIUL DE CADASTRU SI PUBLICITATE IMOBILIARA CUI: 9792290 EON ENERGIE ROMANIA SA CUI: 22043010 093 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 186,955 93,478 112,173

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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