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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

21

Cumulative flagged value

24.78 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

3.0

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 GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 7 2,343,183 334,740 849,860 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SADOVA CUI: 4326779 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 2,249,971 749,990 850,156 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 5 2,006,489 401,298 837,535 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 6 1,966,873 327,812 553,596 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DORNA CANDRENILOR CUI: 4326914 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,792,687 896,344 897,284 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SADOVA CUI: 4326779 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 2 1,780,489 890,245 891,004 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 4 1,383,104 345,776 448,724 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA MOLDOVITA CUI: 4326671 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,188,511 594,256 896,191 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 2 1,102,753 551,377 857,264 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SARU DORNEI CUI: 4326884 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 3 1,064,640 354,880 449,816 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 4 1,045,940 261,485 513,217 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 889,962 444,981 444,990 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA POJORATA CUI: 4441425 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 888,836 444,418 448,420 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 886,618 295,539 447,525 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA ZVORISTEA CUI: 4244202 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 697,964 348,982 444,834 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SADOVA CUI: 4326779 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 670,330 223,443 339,468 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA FUNDU MOLDOVEI CUI: 4326760 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 628,428 314,214 408,433 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL CAMPULUNG MOLDOVENESC CUI: 4842400 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 4 585,902 146,476 295,294 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA FUNDU MOLDOVEI CUI: 4326760 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 574,776 287,388 448,815 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 570,919 285,460 446,563 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 465,715 232,858 444,464 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