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High risk #02 At the ceiling

Direct purchases at the legal ceiling

Direct purchases whose value stops just below the ceiling above which the law requires a tender.

Direct purchases whose value stops just below the legal ceiling. Free prices do not bunch under a limit; when many values stop exactly there, the amount was chosen for the ceiling rather than for the need. Computed on direct purchases only.

Purchases at the ceiling

6

Total value

1.21 Mn.

Closest to the ceiling

99.96%

Flagged purchases by year of finalisation

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 271 are added into a single tile.

Purchases by closeness to the ceiling

How it is computed

Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.

  1. Finalised direct purchases with a supplier (CUI) and a value are kept.
  2. The ceiling is the one in force on the day of publication, for the contract type: until September 2022 it was half of today's.
  3. The value is divided by the ceiling and expressed as a percentage.
  4. The purchase is flagged when the percentage is between 95% and 100%.
  5. Purchases above the ceiling are not counted: there a tender was mandatory anyway.
  6. Each purchase is judged on its own; nothing is added together.

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.

  • Flagged band: 95% – 100% of the applicable ceiling

Direct purchases only, each one on its own. Several small purchases to one supplier are indicator #01, slicing.

A value close to the ceiling is not in itself a breach: it can come from an honest estimate. The signal is repetition: the more of one authority's purchases stop just below the ceiling, the less chance explains it.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Direct purchases at the legal ceiling
SEAP number Contracting authority Supplier Contract type CPV code Finalisation date Value Share of the ceiling Purchases
DA40905109 COMUNA SCHITU CUI: 5102290 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34100000-8 29.07.2026 269,500 99.77% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: achizitie microbuz scolar
DA40780129 COMUNA SERBANESTI CUI: 5139850 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34100000-8 08.07.2026 270,000 99.96% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: microbuz 16 + 1 locuri
DA39276390 COMUNA PIELESTI CUI: 4553992 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34144700-5 13.11.2025 265,990 98.47% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: dotare cu autoutilitara utilata cu sararita si lama de dezapezire
DA22436378 COMPANIA DE APA OLT SA CUI: 21307548 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34115200-8 20.02.2019 134,632 99.68% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: ford transit double cab l3 bena basculabila 3 directii 2.0 tdci 130 cp m6 rwd
DA21555574 UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA CUI: 4553380 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34144700-5 24.10.2018 131,900 97.66% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: achizitie autoutilitara ford ranger limited
DA21149580 JUDETUL OLT CUI: 4394706 PLUSAUTO SRL CUI: 2311348 furnizare 34000000-7 06.09.2018 135,000 99.96% See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: autospeciala pentru interventii protectie civila

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
SEAP number
The purchase's SEAP number, linked to its record on e-licitatie.ro.
Contracting authority
The authority that made the purchase and set its value.
Supplier
The company that received the purchase.
Contract type
Supply, services or works. The type and the date set the applicable ceiling.
CPV code
The CPV code: what was bought. Hover it for the description.
Finalisation date
The date of finalisation. The table is ordered by it by default, newest first.
Value
The value awarded, compared with the ceiling.
Share of the ceiling
The value as a percentage of the applicable ceiling. 100% means exactly the ceiling.
Purchase description
What was bought, as reported, on the row under the purchase.
Purchases
Opens the direct purchases of the same authority–supplier pair, same CPV code and year.

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/praguri
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/praguri/cpv-spend
  • /api/v1/red-flags/praguri/distribution

Open data and API