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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
SERVICIUL PUBLIC DE EXPLOATARE A PATRIMONIULUI MUNICIPIULUI PITESTI CUI: 18812396 All years 70,554,186 4,311,297 74,865,483 115,693,651 190,559,134 39.3%
ORAS ROVINARI CUI: 5057520 All years 74,461,646 380,076 74,841,722 171,228,376 246,070,098 30.4%
MUNICIPIUL VATRA DORNEI CUI: 7467268 All years 72,670,959 1,730,646 74,401,605 369,555,335 443,956,940 16.8%
UNITATEA MILITARA NR02482 CUI: 4364594 All years 33,550,058 40,678,037 74,228,095 1,443,606,234 1,517,834,329 4.9%
SPITALUL DE PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIE CUI: 11333442 All years 71,719,083 2,482,050 74,201,133 12,969,739 87,170,872 85.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DR GHEORGHE MARINESCU TARNAVENI CUI: 4322386 All years 72,682,848 620,320 73,303,168 69,958,785 143,261,953 51.2%
MUNICIPIUL BAIA MARE CUI: 3627692 All years 72,025,932 1,218,494 73,244,426 1,385,006,811 1,458,251,237 5.0%
SECTORUL 1 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4505359 All years 53,361,896 19,722,675 73,084,571 655,262,394 728,346,965 10.0%
MUNICIPIUL FALTICENI CUI: 5432522 All years 64,350,645 8,693,876 73,044,521 223,379,544 296,424,065 24.6%
COMPANIA NATIONALA ADMINISTRATIA PORTURILOR MARITIME - SACONSTANTA CUI: 11062831 All years 65,537,954 7,178,090 72,716,044 1,991,777,173 2,064,493,217 3.5%
ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 All years 13,455,089 59,230,834 72,685,923 1,085,564,164 1,158,250,087 6.3%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA GIURGIU CUI: 4352620 All years 72,125,264 440,626 72,565,890 73,603,508 146,169,398 49.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE PEDIATRIE SIBIU CUI: 11411672 All years 71,568,610 922,906 72,491,516 53,185,542 125,677,058 57.7%
COMUNA APAHIDA CUI: 4485243 All years 70,870,151 1,420,289 72,290,440 133,238,326 205,528,766 35.2%
ORAS CHISINEU CRIS CUI: 3519283 All years 71,480,225 657,165 72,137,390 56,062,680 128,200,070 56.3%
COMPANIA DE APA OLT SA CUI: 21307548 All years 70,332,311 1,713,908 72,046,219 1,003,836,264 1,075,882,483 6.7%
ADMINISTRATIA SCOLILOR SECTOR 6 CUI: 14314666 All years 70,822,798 1,190,000 72,012,798 40,904,570 112,917,368 63.8%
COMUNA MOGOSOAIA CUI: 4420830 All years 71,525,778 479,350 72,005,128 80,308,355 152,313,483 47.3%
COMUNA VLADIMIRESCU CUI: 3519615 All years 61,115,883 10,787,640 71,903,523 41,102,813 113,006,336 63.6%
ORAS SINAIA CUI: 2844103 All years 71,025,525 691,362 71,716,887 282,379,969 354,096,856 20.3%
ORASUL BRAGADIRU CUI: 4992998 All years 39,511,426 32,019,107 71,530,533 185,731,694 257,262,227 27.8%
COMPANIA DE APA ARIES SA CUI: 20330054 All years 68,654,634 2,565,642 71,220,276 511,754,810 582,975,086 12.2%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI SECTOR 2 CUI: 17093691 All years 67,104,120 4,030,186 71,134,306 227,287,297 298,421,603 23.8%
COMUNA SACALAZ CUI: 5439113 All years 69,589,320 1,415,371 71,004,691 67,495,887 138,500,578 51.3%
UNIVERSITATEA PENTRU STIINTELE VIETII ION IONESCU DE LA BRAD DIN IASI CUI: 4541840 All years 52,177,086 18,737,324 70,914,410 336,494,534 407,408,944 17.4%

226-250 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