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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
MUNICIPIUL GALATI CUI: 3814810 All years 82,874,537 102,344,349 185,218,886 2,791,148,808 2,976,367,694 6.2%
MUNICIPIUL TG - JIU CUI: 4956065 All years 175,561,312 9,439,340 185,000,652 786,248,383 971,249,035 19.1%
ADMINISTRATIA DOMENIULUI PUBLIC SI DEZVOLTARE URBANA SECTOR 6 CUI: 4364349 All years 155,716,967 26,881,085 182,598,052 786,798,096 969,396,148 18.8%
MUNICIPIUL DROBETA TURNU SEVERIN CUI: 4426581 All years 181,470,927 261,160 181,732,087 761,369,779 943,101,866 19.3%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA HORIA HULUBEI - IFIN - HH CUI: 3321234 All years 166,597,181 14,227,760 180,824,941 572,011,203 752,836,144 24.0%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BACAU CUI: 4278728 All years 164,334,317 10,926,319 175,260,636 1,128,625,300 1,303,885,936 13.4%
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA GHEORGHE ASACHI DIN IASI CUI: 4701606 All years 165,938,023 8,537,260 174,475,283 275,462,309 449,937,592 38.8%
APA-CANAL ILFOV SA CUI: 25709173 All years 162,017,500 4,837,232 166,854,732 1,932,254,529 2,099,109,261 8.0%
MUNICIPIUL BRASOV CUI: 4384206 All years 162,012,987 4,355,928 166,368,915 4,307,910,037 4,474,278,952 3.7%
COMUNA SANMARTIN CUI: 4641296 All years 152,043,900 13,530,646 165,574,546 223,511,627 389,086,173 42.6%
MUNICIPIUL PIATRA-NEAMT CUI: 2612790 All years 90,252,461 75,147,842 165,400,303 624,126,180 789,526,483 21.0%
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 All years 163,913,030 362,693 164,275,723 14,193,561 178,469,284 92.1%
MUNICIPIUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244792 All years 121,109,137 40,948,137 162,057,274 1,015,841,121 1,177,898,395 13.8%
SPITALUL CLINIC MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA TIMISOARA CUI: 4483447 All years 144,298,399 12,742,448 157,040,847 328,736,681 485,777,528 32.3%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA TARGOVISTE CUI: 4206845 All years 153,762,530 2,463,367 156,225,897 1,743,879,040 1,900,104,937 8.2%
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 All years 148,140,504 3,950,101 152,090,605 604,321,500 756,412,105 20.1%
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTELE VIETII REGELE MIHAI I DIN TIMISOARA CUI: 3487181 All years 151,095,829 99,403 151,195,232 141,790,793 292,986,025 51.6%
AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 All years 130,575,552 20,590,829 151,166,381 2,046,710,933 2,197,877,314 6.9%
COMUNA FLORESTI CUI: 4485391 All years 146,524,906 2,864,134 149,389,040 208,166,658 357,555,698 41.8%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DR CONSTANTIN ANDREOIU PLOIESTI CUI: 2844545 All years 146,892,488 1,590,903 148,483,391 89,566,564 238,049,955 62.4%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA CLUJ CUI: 4288080 All years 145,510,265 1,957,597 147,467,862 526,800,672 674,268,534 21.9%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 All years 144,716,015 0 144,716,015 16,038,383 160,754,398 90.0%
MUNICIPIUL CONSTANTA CUI: 4785631 All years 53,393,585 90,668,836 144,062,421 3,113,342,229 3,257,404,650 4.4%
COMPANIA AQUASERV SA CUI: 10755074 All years 55,859,765 87,790,300 143,650,065 694,091,123 837,741,188 17.2%
UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMISOARA CUI: 4269282 All years 119,721,437 23,788,174 143,509,611 318,884,194 462,393,805 31.0%

26-50 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