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Medium risk #09 DSI index

Discretionary spend index

How much of an authority's money is spent through direct purchases, without a tender.

The discretionary spend index (DSI) is the share of an authority's money spent without a tender: direct purchases plus offline purchases, out of everything it spent. It is not in itself a sign of fraud, because a direct purchase is legal below the ceiling. But a large share of a large budget shows how many decisions are taken without competition. One row is one authority in one year.

Authority-years assessed

4,323

Spent without a tender

109.79 Bn.

National index

11.2%

Authorities above 60% by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

What the money spent without a tender bought

The 12 largest CPV groups by value; the other 304 are added into a single tile. Only money spent without a tender (direct and offline).

National index, weighted by money, by year

How it is computed

Computed on every award from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases and offline purchases are taken. Both are direct purchases; an offline purchase does not even go through the catalogue.
  2. Tender contracts are taken separately, by the value signed. Framework agreements are left out.
  3. Money is dated by when it was spent: the finalisation date for direct purchases and offline purchases, the contract date for tenders. If an offline purchase has no finalisation date yet, its publication date is used.
  4. It is grouped by authority and year. Each authority also has a row with its total across all years, shown when no year is chosen.
  5. The index is the two direct streams divided by everything the authority spent, as a percentage.
  6. Only authorities with at least 3 million lei in a year, or 20 million across all years, are included. Below that the index says nothing: a small authority need not run tenders, and almost every row would read 100%.

Thresholds

  • Minimum spending in a year: 3.000.000 RON
  • Minimum spending across all years: 20.000.000 RON
  • Above 60%: a strongly discretionary profile

The indicator measures how the money was spent, not whether it was lawful. It does not check whether a purchase passed the ceiling; indicators #01 and #02 do that. Actual payments are not in the data.

A high index can have legitimate reasons: an authority with no investment in a year spends almost only on running costs. Read it with indicator #06, which shows how much competition the tenders drew.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Year Direct Off-catalogue Without a tender Tenders Total spent DSI index
REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR ROMSILVA RA CUI: 1590120 All years 506,853,369 247,161,223 754,014,592 4,529,037,138 5,283,051,730 14.3%
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 All years 393,228,323 67,743,236 460,971,559 4,071,865,619 4,532,837,178 10.2%
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE ADMINISTRARE A INFRASTRUCTURII RUTIERE SA CUI: 16054368 All years 201,730,278 235,346,043 437,076,321 87,976,368,595 88,413,444,916 0.5%
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 All years 429,448,289 2,831,477 432,279,766 904,675,951 1,336,955,717 32.3%
UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI CUI: 4305849 All years 125,784,667 184,870,513 310,655,180 614,084,575 924,739,755 33.6%
APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768 All years 286,006,554 2,325,086 288,331,640 3,411,475,541 3,699,807,181 7.8%
ADMINISTRATIA PATRIMONIULUI PROTOCOLULUI DE STAT RA CUI: 2351555 All years 242,808,235 24,257,648 267,065,883 451,121,096 718,186,979 37.2%
SECTORUL 3 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4420465 All years 187,778,017 74,955,647 262,733,664 8,426,186,801 8,688,920,465 3.0%
SERVICIUL DE TELECOMUNICATII SPECIALE CUI: 4267230 All years 201,995,055 51,176,492 253,171,547 3,576,551,344 3,829,722,891 6.6%
REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 All years 220,586,245 17,838,266 238,424,511 625,483,217 863,907,728 27.6%
SECTORUL 5 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4433953 All years 197,390,170 30,070,152 227,460,322 1,377,873,194 1,605,333,516 14.2%
MUNICIPIUL ORADEA CUI: 4230487 All years 107,784,316 119,652,713 227,437,029 4,497,564,165 4,725,001,194 4.8%
COMPANIA DE APA SOMES SA CUI: 201217 All years 173,170,028 43,159,029 216,329,057 1,970,686,776 2,187,015,833 9.9%
ORAS OTOPENI CUI: 4364446 All years 215,312,336 109,774 215,422,110 159,447,233 374,869,343 57.5%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 All years 180,315,828 30,140,641 210,456,469 77,343,108 287,799,577 73.1%
ADMINISTRATIA DOMENIULUI PUBLIC SECTOR 2 CUI: 4266260 All years 103,236,381 105,416,890 208,653,271 612,092,344 820,745,615 25.4%
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 All years 204,936,344 2,240,869 207,177,213 2,072,485,155 2,279,662,368 9.1%
UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4183199 All years 193,466,153 6,329,514 199,795,667 380,211,846 580,007,513 34.5%
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA CUI: 4288306 All years 199,246,258 508,351 199,754,609 402,487,854 602,242,463 33.2%
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA FARMACIE STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE GEORGE EMIL PALADE DIN TARGU MURES CUI: 4322742 All years 125,120,396 74,283,559 199,403,955 643,861,615 843,265,570 23.7%
DIRECTIIA ADMINISTRARII DOMENIULUI PUBLIC CUI: 9509173 All years 176,038,045 21,702,079 197,740,124 0 197,740,124 100.0%
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221 All years 111,477,289 84,153,357 195,630,646 27,007,100,372 27,202,731,018 0.7%
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE STIINTA SI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCURESTI CUI: 48467613 All years 185,792,286 9,076,084 194,868,370 623,406,620 818,274,990 23.8%
MUNICIPIU RM VALCEA CUI: 2540813 All years 129,225,737 61,463,059 190,688,796 1,035,853,023 1,226,541,819 15.6%
SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 All years 175,381,830 12,519,576 187,901,406 2,281,670,528 2,469,571,934 7.6%

1-25 of 4323 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
Contracting authority
The authority that spent. One row is one authority in one year.
Year
The year the money was spent. The All years row is the authority's total and is shown by default; years do not add up.
Direct
Direct purchases. The link opens them for the same authority and year.
Off-catalogue
Offline purchases: direct purchases made outside the catalogue. The link opens them.
Without a tender
Direct plus offline: the amount in question. The table is ordered by it.
Tenders
Tender contracts. The link opens the authority's tenders; there the year is the notice's, not the contract's, so the list does not reproduce the figure exactly.
Total spent
Everything the authority spent that year, in all streams. 90% of a small budget and 40% of a large one do not mean the same thing.
DSI index
The share without a tender, as a percentage of the total. Under 40% green, 40–60% amber, above 60% red. The colour shows the band, not a fault.

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

Open data and API