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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
UNIVERSITATEA OVIDIUS DIN CONSTANTA CUI: 4301332 All years 43,851,074 13,294,516 57,145,590 157,114,123 214,259,713 26.7%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA CUI: 4253650 All years 50,287,171 6,632,168 56,919,339 268,676,187 325,595,526 17.5%
DIRECTIA DE INVESTIGARE A INFRACTIUNILOR DE CRIMINALITATE ORGANIZATA SI TERORISM - DIICOT- CUI: 20606479 All years 56,788,076 0 56,788,076 34,290,322 91,078,398 62.4%
SPITALUL CLINIC PROFDRTHEODOR BURGHELE CUI: 4283538 All years 56,373,134 409,652 56,782,786 61,007,209 117,789,995 48.2%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL CAMPULUNG CUI: 4756466 All years 51,390,702 5,327,280 56,717,982 35,978,346 92,696,328 61.2%
MUNICIPIUL BRAD CUI: 4374962 All years 55,175,101 1,271,849 56,446,950 342,808,407 399,255,357 14.1%
COMUNA DORNA CANDRENILOR CUI: 4326914 All years 56,054,516 271,233 56,325,749 65,312,272 121,638,021 46.3%
MUNICIPIUL OLTENITA CUI: 4294103 All years 54,273,461 1,853,637 56,127,098 199,757,817 255,884,915 21.9%
MUNICIPIUL VULCAN CUI: 4375267 All years 54,599,528 1,447,184 56,046,712 102,491,369 158,538,081 35.4%
JUDETUL BUZAU CUI: 3662495 All years 45,807,238 10,191,168 55,998,406 663,374,227 719,372,633 7.8%
SERVICIUL DE INFORMATII EXTERNE CUI: 10668016 All years 45,099,422 10,851,299 55,950,721 30,205,897 86,156,618 64.9%
ORAS OVIDIU CUI: 4301359 All years 35,713,046 20,091,869 55,804,915 64,129,231 119,934,146 46.5%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI SECTOR 1 CUI: 15318810 All years 55,094,525 609,826 55,704,351 121,063,740 176,768,091 31.5%
ORAS SANTANA CUI: 3520121 All years 45,487,336 10,190,079 55,677,415 157,764,652 213,442,067 26.1%
MUNICIPIUL ONESTI CUI: 4353250 All years 47,421,210 8,172,956 55,594,166 230,180,948 285,775,114 19.5%
MUNICIPIUL DOROHOI CUI: 4112945 All years 52,619,269 2,692,048 55,311,317 295,371,521 350,682,838 15.8%
COMUNA ARICESTII-RAHTIVANI CUI: 2842927 All years 52,031,454 3,087,975 55,119,429 210,952,455 266,071,884 20.7%
ORASUL RECAS CUI: 2512589 All years 53,273,232 1,720,963 54,994,195 44,144,276 99,138,471 55.5%
EURO APAVOL SA CUI: 27778056 All years 54,985,351 0 54,985,351 522,112,074 577,097,425 9.5%
JUDETUL HUNEDOARA CUI: 4374474 All years 48,268,406 6,620,291 54,888,697 2,468,486,314 2,523,375,011 2.2%
ORASUL GAESTI CUI: 4279774 All years 54,485,302 349,450 54,834,752 115,153,765 169,988,517 32.3%
REGIA AUTONOMA ADMINISTRATIA FLUVIALA A DUNARII DE JOS GALATI CUI: 1644670 All years 47,762,602 7,026,070 54,788,672 874,584,513 929,373,185 5.9%
SERVICIUL PUBLIC DE ADMINISTRARE INTRETINERE SI REABILITARE CUI: 31161422 All years 54,668,311 0 54,668,311 7,362,479 62,030,790 88.1%
MUNICIPIUL TARGOVISTE CUI: 4279944 All years 20,784,648 33,693,361 54,478,009 720,285,865 774,763,874 7.0%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL CARITAS CUI: 4568004 All years 54,388,479 57,850 54,446,329 53,040,412 107,486,741 50.7%

351-375 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