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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

24

Cumulative flagged value

13.99 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

5.1

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

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

Artificial slicing of direct purchases
Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase Purchases
ORASUL ORAVITA CUI: 3227963 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 10 1,430,268 143,027 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL VISEU DE SUS CUI: 3627641 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 13 1,393,185 107,168 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL ORAVITA CUI: 3227963 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 7 1,119,510 159,930 269,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL ORAVITA CUI: 3227963 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 1,023,541 255,885 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 5 787,901 157,580 198,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS HUEDIN CUI: 4485642 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 8 769,353 96,169 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL VISEU DE SUS CUI: 3627641 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 16 644,504 40,282 86,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL DETA CUI: 2503378 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 555,288 185,096 199,950 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SIGHETU MARMATIEI CUI: 3695174 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 540,000 270,000 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SINGEORZ-BAI CUI: 4347321 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 531,291 265,646 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS SINGEORZ-BAI CUI: 4347321 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 526,196 263,098 270,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS NEGRESTI-OAS CUI: 3963951 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 520,000 260,000 260,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL TOPLITA CUI: 4245178 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 514,482 257,241 263,181 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL SIMLEU SILVANIEI CUI: 4566658 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 486,959 121,740 143,058 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL SANNICOLAU MARE CUI: 4548554 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 416,468 208,234 268,018 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OCNA MURES CUI: 4563228 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 382,543 127,514 151,174 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL SANNICOLAU MARE CUI: 4548554 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 377,469 188,735 266,569 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA TARNA MARE CUI: 3897181 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 369,159 92,290 176,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORAS OCNA MURES CUI: 4563228 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 337,525 168,763 198,730 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL BACAU CUI: 4278337 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 293,500 97,833 107,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL GHERLA CUI: 4349071 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 20 290,000 14,500 20,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL GHERLA CUI: 4349071 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 270,000 135,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL HUNEDOARA CUI: 2127028 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 229,800 76,600 124,800 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL GHEORGHENI CUI: 4245070 KES BUSINESS SRL CUI: 34697191 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 180,000 90,000 117,000 See the direct purchases behind this group

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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.
Purchases
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