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Medium risk #04 Captivity

Supplier captivity

Near-exclusive relationships between an authority and a supplier.

A supplier takes almost all of its public revenue from one authority, and the authority gives it a large share of its budget. Such a relationship points to a closed local market that other suppliers have left.

Captive relationships

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Value of the captive relationships

335,378 RON

Average captivity

100.0%

Captive relationships by captivity band

Which stream the captive money came from

The three streams add up to the total value. One relationship can use several streams.

How it is computed

Computed on every award from 2018 to today, in all streams.

  1. The money from the three streams is added together: tenders, direct purchases and offline purchases.
  2. For tenders each winner's share is used, so a contract with two winners is not counted twice.
  3. The money is grouped by authority–supplier pair, in total and per stream.
  4. Each supplier's total public revenue and each authority's total spending are computed.
  5. The pair gets two percentages: how much of the supplier's revenue comes from this authority, and how much of the authority's budget reaches this supplier.
  6. The pair is flagged when both percentages pass the thresholds below and the supplier's revenue is large enough for the percentage to matter.

Thresholds

  • Captivity of at least 80% of the supplier's public revenue (the list can be widened down to 50%)
  • Captured budget of at least 30% of the authority's spending
  • Total public revenue of the supplier above 100,000 RON

The indicator measures where the money concentrates, not whether it was lawful. A captive relationship can also mean the local market has only one capable supplier.

The percentages cover the whole period in the data, not a year. One intense year looks the same as seven steady ones.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

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Contracting authority
The authority that paid and chose the supplier.
Supplier
The company that was paid. One row is one authority–supplier pair, over the whole period.
Relationship value
All the money between the two parties, in every stream. The two percentages are taken against it.
From tenders
The part from tenders. The link opens the tenders between the two parties.
From direct purchases
The part from direct purchases. If it is large, see indicator #01 too.
From offline purchases
The part from offline purchases. The link opens the offline purchases between the two parties.
Supplier captivity
How much of the supplier's public revenue comes from this authority. Near 100%: the supplier has no other public client.
Budget captured
How much of the authority's spending reaches this supplier.
Contracts together
How many awards the relationship holds, across every stream.

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/red-flags/clientelism-hhi
  • /api/v1/red-flags/clientelism-hhi/distribution
  • /api/v1/red-flags/clientelism-hhi/stream-spend

Open data and API