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Medium risk #08 Year-end

Year-end spending

Authorities that spend far more in the last three weeks of December than the rest of the country.

Every authority buys in December, and the share of those three weeks varies from year to year: 9.5% of the money in 2022, 4.1% in 2023. So the indicator compares each authority with the national average for the same year: it is flagged when it puts at least three times as much into the window. The table is ordered by the amount spent above normal.

Flagged cases

3,152

Spending above normal

1.06 Bn.

Average vs. national

5.1×

Flagged authorities by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018.

The data does not cover the whole window in 2023, so that year figures are a floor. For 2018, the first year of the dataset, the annual total is grossed up to a full year.

What the flagged windows were spent on

The 12 largest CPV groups by value; the other 271 are added into a single tile. The amount is what was spent in the flagged windows, not the amount above normal, which cannot be split by code.

National share of the 10-31 December window, by year

How it is computed

Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases are taken by finalisation date.
  2. They are grouped by authority and year. A year counts only if the data covers all of its December, so the current year is left out.
  3. The first year in the data starts in April, so its total is estimated for a full year from the nearby complete years. The correction makes the total larger, so it can only remove a case, never create one.
  4. Spending from 10–31 December is divided by the yearly total: that is the authority's share.
  5. The same share is computed for the whole country in the same year. It varies a lot (9.5% in 2022, 4.1% in 2023), which is why no fixed threshold is used.
  6. The authority's share is divided by the national one. The amount above normal is the window spending minus what the authority would have spent at the national share.
  7. Authority-years at least 3 times the national share are flagged, with at least 5 purchases in the window and at least 100,000 RON above normal, among those that spent over 200,000 RON in the year.

Thresholds

  • Window: 10–31 December, by the direct purchase's finalisation date
  • Minimum multiple of the national share: 3×
  • Minimum spending above normal: 100,000 RON
  • Minimum number of purchases in the window: 5
  • Minimum yearly direct-purchase budget: 200,000 RON

Direct purchases only. Tenders are left out: they are prepared months ahead, so a December signature is not a last-minute decision. Actual payments are not in the data.

Year-end spending has a legitimate side: the budget closes on 31 December and unspent money is lost. The indicator does not say a purchase is unlawful, only that its timing departs from the national pattern. A year in which everyone spent late produces no flags.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Year Total spend in the year Spend 10-31 December Purchases in the window December share Vs. national Above normal
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 2025 50,860,810 11,206,156 164 22.0% 3.6× 8,065,986
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 2024 27,111,991 6,590,769 133 24.3% 4.5× 5,134,481
COMPANIA MUNICIPALA CONSOLIDARI SA CUI: 37764937 2018 23,775,663 6,075,572 70 25.6% 3.3× 4,205,379
AMENAJARE EDILITARA S5 SA CUI: 27515874 2018 7,441,004 4,712,548 48 63.3% 8.1× 4,127,239
COMPANIA DE APA ORADEA SA CUI: 54760 2024 25,457,533 5,327,622 55 20.9% 3.9× 3,960,201
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 2024 32,419,511 5,442,684 19 16.8% 3.1× 3,701,309
SECTORUL 1 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4505359 2025 6,165,018 3,799,622 31 61.6% 10.0× 3,418,991
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE ARTA TEATRALA SI CINEMATOGRAFICA ION LUCA CARAGIALE DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4453160 2020 11,713,510 4,149,794 616 35.4% 4.2× 3,153,022
DIRECTIIA ADMINISTRARII DOMENIULUI PUBLIC CUI: 9509173 2022 15,416,323 4,403,127 14 28.6% 3.0× 2,937,799
ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE CUI: 4433775 2021 10,010,096 3,736,061 78 37.3% 4.0× 2,808,674
COMUNA BRAZI CUI: 2845290 2024 7,896,965 3,209,304 33 40.6% 7.6× 2,785,128
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE ADMINISTRARE A INFRASTRUCTURII RUTIERE SA CUI: 16054368 2025 21,212,177 4,088,602 47 19.3% 3.1× 2,778,952
SANADOR SRL CUI: 12530000 2024 10,176,911 3,319,541 68 32.6% 6.1× 2,772,900
ECONOMAT SECTOR 5 SRL CUI: 14330840 2018 5,001,509 3,153,767 50 63.1% 8.0× 2,760,348
UNITATEA MILITARA 01016 CUI: 32537534 2022 6,528,598 3,271,871 77 50.1% 5.3× 2,651,325
SCOALA SUPERIOARA DE AVIATIE CIVILA CUI: 11534322 2021 5,785,385 3,185,065 107 55.1% 5.9× 2,649,077
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE BUCURESTI CUI: 15548207 2025 7,984,959 2,989,922 14 37.4% 6.1× 2,496,927
AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL AVRAM IANCU CLUJ RA CUI: 2882425 2022 12,114,677 3,582,168 98 29.6% 3.1× 2,430,663
AUTORITATEA NATIONALA PENTRU ADMINISTRARE SI REGLEMENTARE IN COMUNICATII CUI: 14751237 2024 2,845,636 2,458,717 59 86.4% 16.1× 2,305,867
AUTORITATEA NATIONALA PENTRU ADMINISTRARE SI REGLEMENTARE IN COMUNICATII CUI: 14751237 2023 4,230,492 2,464,573 63 58.3% 14.1× 2,289,668
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE ARTA TEATRALA SI CINEMATOGRAFICA ION LUCA CARAGIALE DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4453160 2021 10,455,826 3,035,577 563 29.0% 3.1× 2,066,896
MUNICIPIUL TURDA CUI: 4378930 2022 9,220,004 2,867,763 31 31.1% 3.3× 1,991,398
ORASUL SALCEA CUI: 4244180 2024 12,934,099 2,631,383 22 20.3% 3.8× 1,936,643
COMUNA ROSIORI CUI: 15579483 2023 3,973,523 2,088,385 5 52.6% 12.7× 1,924,104
COMUNA BRAZI CUI: 2845290 2025 9,003,717 2,448,446 33 27.2% 4.4× 1,892,552

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Contracting authority
The authority that spent. One row is one authority in one year.
Year
The year the purchases were finalised.
Total spend in the year
Everything the authority spent through direct purchases that year. For the first year in the data it is estimated for a full year.
Spend 10-31 December
How much of that money was spent between 10 and 31 December.
Purchases in the window
How many direct purchases were finalised in the window. Below five nothing is flagged: it may be a single large purchase.
December share
Window spending as a percentage of the whole year. Read it with the next column, because the national average changes each year.
Vs. national
How many times the authority's share exceeds the national one in the same year. 1× means the same as the country; flagged from 3×.
Above normal
Window spending minus what the authority would have spent at the national share. The table is ordered by this column.
Opens the authority's direct purchases from that window.

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

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