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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
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIE A COPILULUI SECTOR 4 CUI: 17226151 2019 4,439,378 1,302,667 21 29.3% 3.9× 965,450
MUNICIPIUL SIBIU CUI: 4270740 2025 5,530,262 1,300,828 18 23.5% 3.8× 959,387
COMUNA NARUJA CUI: 4447460 2022 2,739,132 1,218,256 18 44.5% 4.7× 957,900
SNGN ROMGAZ SA-FILIALA DE INMAGAZINARE GAZE NATURALE DEPOGAZ PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 34915261 2023 11,316,066 1,424,807 15 12.6% 3.1× 956,958
COMUNA DARMANESTI CUI: 5010129 2025 7,728,936 1,433,301 5 18.5% 3.0× 956,113
OPERA NATIONALA ROMANA CUI: 4354558 2024 6,725,198 1,311,801 47 19.5% 3.6× 950,565
COMUNA NEREJU CUI: 4298075 2025 5,854,971 1,309,647 25 22.4% 3.6× 948,158
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA BAIA SPRIE CUI: 24902647 2022 1,131,973 1,054,725 8 93.2% 9.8× 947,130
TEATRUL NATIONAL DE OPERETA SI MUSICAL ION DACIAN CUI: 4340099 2020 1,910,571 1,107,216 50 58.0% 6.8× 944,634
COMUNA RAMET CUI: 4562389 2025 3,568,138 1,163,536 7 32.6% 5.3× 943,237
COMPLEXUL SPORTIV NATIONAL ELISABETA LIPA SNAGOV CUI: 4754880 2023 2,353,020 1,031,294 386 43.8% 10.6× 934,011
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI VRANCEA CUI: 17101530 2019 5,125,214 1,322,601 313 25.8% 3.4× 933,287
COMUNA BANEASA CUI: 5182140 2025 1,986,392 1,055,398 6 53.1% 8.6× 932,757
COMUNA ZAPODENI CUI: 3337699 2022 3,140,163 1,227,547 14 39.1% 4.1× 929,073
COMUNA BAITA CUI: 4374024 2022 4,178,131 1,326,144 19 31.7% 3.3× 929,011
COMUNA SAGEATA CUI: 4154266 2022 1,913,651 1,100,359 35 57.5% 6.1× 918,466
COMUNA FUNDATA CUI: 4777280 2025 3,267,865 1,118,065 11 34.2% 5.5× 916,305
COMPANIA REGIONALA DE APA BACAU SA CUI: 27429315 2023 7,099,081 1,207,206 98 17.0% 4.1× 913,703
COMUNA ARSURA CUI: 3552077 2022 1,683,646 1,071,672 15 63.7% 6.7× 911,641
OPERA NATIONALA ROMANA CUI: 4354558 2023 6,139,272 1,164,190 23 19.0% 4.6× 910,369
COMPANIA NATIONALA LOTERIA ROMANA SA CUI: 12397185 2024 5,883,871 1,226,184 43 20.8% 3.9× 910,139
COMUNA CETATEA DE BALTA CUI: 4562478 2022 2,138,667 1,111,488 14 52.0% 5.5× 908,207
TRIBUNALUL ILFOV CUI: 29342362 2024 1,821,663 1,004,611 39 55.2% 10.3× 906,763
COMUNA CRACIUNESTI CUI: 4323187 2024 2,531,195 1,042,200 20 41.2% 7.7× 906,240
DIRECTIA ADMINISTRARE PATRIMONIU CUI: 36962936 2022 2,238,401 1,115,095 7 49.8% 5.2× 902,334

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
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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