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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
COMUNA DRAGOMIRESTI VALE CUI: 4736078 All years 143,397,374 0 143,397,374 103,075,582 246,472,956 58.2%
SECTORUL 6 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4340730 All years 130,478,067 11,622,731 142,100,798 2,472,061,281 2,614,162,079 5.4%
MUNICIPIUL TARGU MURES CUI: 4322823 All years 85,431,666 56,355,228 141,786,894 1,314,670,536 1,456,457,430 9.7%
UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV CUI: 4317754 All years 133,231,430 8,265,859 141,497,289 207,800,297 349,297,586 40.5%
MUNICIPIUL MANGALIA CUI: 4515255 All years 140,301,931 4,900 140,306,831 358,092,519 498,399,350 28.2%
SPITALUL UNIVERSITAR DE URGENTA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283570 All years 139,537,868 738,540 140,276,408 412,306,461 552,582,869 25.4%
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 All years 139,338,426 93,000 139,431,426 374,014,499 513,445,925 27.2%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA PIUS BRINZEU TIMISOARA CUI: 4663448 All years 122,212,499 16,896,561 139,109,060 926,932,548 1,066,041,608 13.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BRASOV CUI: 4384117 All years 129,284,024 8,186,675 137,470,699 126,407,894 263,878,593 52.1%
MUNICIPIUL IASI CUI: 4541580 All years 96,932,486 38,995,410 135,927,896 1,577,789,315 1,713,717,211 7.9%
COMUNA CRISTIAN CUI: 4728369 All years 135,572,243 14,071 135,586,314 121,677,030 257,263,344 52.7%
MUNICIPIUL BUZAU CUI: 4233874 All years 81,457,016 53,968,832 135,425,848 1,427,173,731 1,562,599,579 8.7%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4245259 All years 129,800,164 2,805,782 132,605,946 12,359,267 144,965,213 91.5%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE TURBOMOTOARE - COMOTI CUI: 445238 All years 87,082,578 44,649,724 131,732,302 73,107,894 204,840,196 64.3%
SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 All years 71,807,312 59,640,755 131,448,067 7,108,172,199 7,239,620,266 1.8%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA MAVROMATI BOTOSANI CUI: 4557951 All years 104,850,829 25,856,853 130,707,682 560,304,032 691,011,714 18.9%
MUNICIPIUL MEDIAS CUI: 4240677 All years 125,500,941 4,585,415 130,086,356 433,613,434 563,699,790 23.1%
MUNICIPIUL CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4305857 All years 129,964,914 0 129,964,914 16,968,991,968 17,098,956,882 0.8%
SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 All years 78,832,455 50,268,514 129,100,969 5,093,929,120 5,223,030,089 2.5%
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRONOMICE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CUI: 4602041 All years 83,960,260 44,247,819 128,208,079 235,292,345 363,500,424 35.3%
SOCIETATEA NATIONALA NUCLEARELECTRICA SA CUI: 10874881 All years 38,781,435 89,040,103 127,821,538 15,062,390,372 15,190,211,910 0.8%
BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI CUI: 361684 All years 24,497,480 101,454,161 125,951,641 805,158,607 931,110,248 13.5%
ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE CUI: 4433775 All years 101,030,497 23,669,350 124,699,847 229,508,691 354,208,538 35.2%
MUNICIPIUL ROMAN CUI: 2613583 All years 122,405,594 103,517 122,509,111 366,588,396 489,097,507 25.1%
COMPANIA NATIONALA IMPRIMERIA NATIONALA SA CUI: 2779625 All years 102,497,979 19,048,198 121,546,177 380,723,483 502,269,660 24.2%

51-75 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