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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

30

Cumulative flagged value

8.56 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.3

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
ORAS BECLEAN CUI: 4548821 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 6 764,000 127,333 265,000
COMUNA TIHA BIRGAULUI CUI: 4427102 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 7 541,900 77,414 100,300
COMUNA MOFTIN CUI: 3897092 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 6 457,605 76,268 120,000
COMUNA BATARCI CUI: 3897165 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 434,000 108,500 169,000
COMUNA ZAGRA CUI: 4730563 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 9 402,000 44,667 80,000
COMUNA TURT CUI: 3896887 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 4 375,000 93,750 225,000
COMUNA POIENILE IZEI CUI: 7367404 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 4 360,000 90,000 120,000
COMUNA CERNESTI CUI: 3627897 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 8 327,000 40,875 90,000
COMUNA TIHA BIRGAULUI CUI: 4427102 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 715 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 5 312,700 62,540 92,000
COMUNA FELDRU CUI: 4427048 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 310,500 77,625 115,000
COMUNA BRANISTEA CUI: 4347402 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 310,000 77,500 100,000
COMUNA SANT CUI: 4512313 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 309,000 77,250 103,000
COMUNA ROMULI CUI: 4512232 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 300,000 75,000 100,000
COMUNA TELCIU CUI: 4512267 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 5 296,000 59,200 110,000
COMUNA TURULUNG CUI: 3896569 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 291,900 72,975 95,000
COMUNA GALGAU CUI: 4495182 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 10 275,000 27,500 70,000
COMUNA TELCIU CUI: 4512267 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 8 222,200 27,775 97,600
COMUNA BRANISTEA CUI: 4347402 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 4 216,200 54,050 66,200
ORAS SINGEORZ-BAI CUI: 4347321 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 205,000 102,500 105,000
COMUNA ZAGRA CUI: 4730563 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 5 204,600 40,920 120,000
COMUNA TELCIU CUI: 4512267 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 722 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 202,000 101,000 101,000
ORAS BECLEAN CUI: 4548821 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 4 197,000 49,250 69,000
COMUNA ODOREU CUI: 3897424 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 190,800 95,400 99,500
COMUNA TELCIU CUI: 4512267 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 181,000 90,500 91,000
COMUNA DUMITRITA CUI: 15050988 CENTRUL DE CONSULTANTA SI ASISTENTA SRL CUI: 24955919 794 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 162,000 81,000 102,000

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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