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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
AEROCLUBUL ROMANIEI CUI: 4266944 All years 111,161,158 10,179,697 121,340,855 316,784,086 438,124,941 27.7%
COMUNA GIROC CUI: 5390613 All years 119,192,144 598,285 119,790,429 80,729,894 200,520,323 59.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC BOLI INFECTIOASE CUI: 4485715 All years 118,790,391 139,176 118,929,567 80,660,557 199,590,124 59.6%
SPITALUL CLINIC CF NR2 BUCURESTI CUI: 4505316 All years 117,363,749 960,875 118,324,624 568,846,860 687,171,484 17.2%
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE IULIU HATIEGANU CUI: 4288047 All years 108,009,314 9,976,480 117,985,794 442,985,205 560,970,999 21.0%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFANTA CHIRIACHI VASLUI CUI: 3551942 All years 109,171,249 8,540,076 117,711,325 96,901,861 214,613,186 54.9%
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4288381 All years 75,914,201 41,147,223 117,061,424 184,264,653 301,326,077 38.9%
UNIVDE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4192910 All years 106,874,757 9,530,346 116,405,103 314,430,834 430,835,937 27.0%
COMUNA TUNARI CUI: 4505618 All years 112,769,814 3,397,156 116,166,970 40,146,506 156,313,476 74.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SIBIU CUI: 4240898 All years 115,999,469 127,016 116,126,485 299,860,351 415,986,836 27.9%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA CALARASI DR POMPEI SAMARIAN CUI: 3233078 All years 113,709,422 2,287,838 115,997,260 115,754,196 231,751,456 50.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ILFOV CUI: 14989140 All years 115,782,616 1,000 115,783,616 147,760,824 263,544,440 43.9%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA ELENA BELDIMAN CUI: 4446481 All years 102,372,672 12,879,828 115,252,500 78,104,791 193,357,291 59.6%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU CUI: 4284134 All years 114,393,986 0 114,393,986 125,940,740 240,334,726 47.6%
UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4505502 All years 87,422,125 26,655,508 114,077,633 411,512,336 525,589,969 21.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PROF DR NICOLAE OBLU IASI CUI: 4540810 All years 114,020,203 19,787 114,039,990 157,814,725 271,854,715 42.0%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BISTRITA CUI: 4347593 All years 89,968,837 23,992,786 113,961,623 398,937,025 512,898,648 22.2%
COMPANIA DE APA ORADEA SA CUI: 54760 All years 104,692,564 8,760,894 113,453,458 659,278,375 772,731,833 14.7%
MUNICIPIUL CALARASI CUI: 4445370 All years 74,424,640 38,849,597 113,274,237 516,403,989 629,678,226 18.0%
COMUNA SELIMBAR CUI: 4406045 All years 110,359,376 2,705,905 113,065,281 101,281,684 214,346,965 52.8%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFANTUL APOSTOL ANDREI CONSTANTA CUI: 4301103 All years 86,602,884 25,793,719 112,396,603 594,634,260 707,030,863 15.9%
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 4244210 All years 112,042,081 297,464 112,339,545 173,328,123 285,667,668 39.3%
SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC TIMISOARA SA CUI: 2490570 All years 96,995,036 15,234,649 112,229,685 262,136,078 374,365,763 30.0%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ALBA IULIA CUI: 4613342 All years 110,304,645 1,702,283 112,006,928 344,681,317 456,688,245 24.5%
JUDETUL ILFOV CUI: 4192545 All years 109,855,674 1,861,874 111,717,548 1,389,921,702 1,501,639,250 7.4%

76-100 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