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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

102

Cumulative flagged value

47.06 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

30.4

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
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 78 2,424,860 31,088 49,980
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 65 2,339,218 35,988 49,950
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 85 1,623,471 19,100 48,500
INSTITUTUL DE BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE TIMISOARA CUI: 5189211 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 62 1,593,331 25,699 94,000
INSTITUTUL DE URGENTA PENTRU BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE SI TRANSPLANT TARGU-MURES CUI: 32051606 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 46 1,452,987 31,587 256,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 51 1,365,297 26,771 98,000
SPITALUL CLINIC COLENTINA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283929 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 54 1,365,126 25,280 38,800
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 51 1,259,124 24,689 49,860
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PROF DR NICOLAE OBLU IASI CUI: 4540810 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 123 1,140,353 9,271 52,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 39 1,124,298 28,828 87,500
SPITALUL CLINIC COLENTINA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283929 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 45 885,588 19,680 42,208
SANADOR SRL CUI: 12530000 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 60 843,966 14,066 75,400
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 53 760,720 14,353 215,000
SPITALUL ORASENESC MIOVENI CUI: 4318202 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 48 628,020 13,084 58,050
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 89 621,035 6,978 56,000
SANADOR SRL CUI: 12530000 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 37 601,029 16,244 79,224
SPITALUL CLINIC PROFDRTHEODOR BURGHELE CUI: 4283538 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 10 566,400 56,640 120,300
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 31 565,332 18,237 71,420
INSTITUTUL DE URGENTA PENTRU BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE SI TRANSPLANT TARGU-MURES CUI: 32051606 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 26 559,407 21,516 49,900
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DEVA CUI: 4374385 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 421 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 29 551,800 19,028 59,987
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 25 547,069 21,883 55,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 82 541,660 6,606 48,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PROF DR NICOLAE OBLU IASI CUI: 4540810 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 43 538,790 12,530 47,000
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ZALAU CUI: 4291719 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 33 483,779 14,660 140,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 26 479,640 18,448 49,420

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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