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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

23

Cumulative flagged value

11.90 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

100.3

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

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
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 158 1,024,904 6,487 88,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 156 1,010,547 6,478 52,470 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 111 801,184 7,218 25,920 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 247 796,239 3,224 37,064 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 100 754,046 7,540 38,880 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 87 748,567 8,604 94,514 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 77 734,883 9,544 35,234 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 106 664,494 6,269 44,628 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 109 580,061 5,322 26,961 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 230 561,788 2,443 19,404 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 151 555,657 3,680 14,768 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 37 530,680 14,343 94,153 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 207 529,440 2,558 12,128 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 109 367,510 3,372 17,397 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 63 358,661 5,693 32,318 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 444 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 62 328,793 5,303 21,600 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 76 281,557 3,705 18,950 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 392 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 13 272,926 20,994 32,989 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 444 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 58 235,431 4,059 16,415 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 444 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 47 212,682 4,525 16,200 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 444 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 26 197,222 7,585 56,825 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 67 196,826 2,938 20,053 See the direct purchases behind this group
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 VSA INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 9575800 443 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 11 156,892 14,263 32,665 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