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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

15

Cumulative flagged value

13.22 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

2.7

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
ORASUL FIERBINTI-TARG CUI: 4428060 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,754,195 877,098 887,144
COMUNA CERASU CUI: 2843205 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 4 1,414,563 353,641 450,000
COMUNA VALEA CALUGAREASCA CUI: 2845400 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,369,985 456,662 869,000
COMUNA FILIPESTII DE PADURE CUI: 2843213 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 6 1,153,922 192,320 449,227
COMUNA FILIPESTII DE PADURE CUI: 2843213 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 3 1,056,434 352,145 448,868
COMUNA BUCOV CUI: 2843531 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 922,869 307,623 899,894
COMUNA GORNET - CRICOV CUI: 2842900 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 908,095 302,698 347,151
ORAS BAICOI CUI: 2845710 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 819,341 409,671 432,787
COMUNA VALEA CALUGAREASCA CUI: 2845400 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 781,569 390,785 450,000
ORAS SINAIA CUI: 2844103 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 566,379 283,190 426,410
ORAS VALENII DE MUNTE CUI: 2842870 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 3 522,377 174,126 245,654
COMUNA GORNET - CRICOV CUI: 2842900 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 522,186 261,093 420,000
COMUNA VALEA CALUGAREASCA CUI: 2845400 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 496,200 248,100 450,000
COMUNA PAULESTI CUI: 2843981 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 482,020 241,010 440,000
COMUNA ADUNATI CUI: 2843248 STRABENBAU LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 33221610 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 453,050 226,525 397,800

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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