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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 SIBIU CUI: 4270740 All years 42,816,247 68,551,633 111,367,880 1,867,197,015 1,978,564,895 5.6%
COMPANIA DE APA SA CUI: 22987337 All years 111,255,858 13,750 111,269,608 1,465,354,584 1,576,624,192 7.1%
COMUNA BRADU CUI: 5172600 All years 61,063,128 50,088,563 111,151,691 108,657,185 219,808,876 50.6%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFAPOSTOL ANDREI GALATI CUI: 3126853 All years 104,973,985 5,785,789 110,759,774 716,583,614 827,343,388 13.4%
SECTORUL 4 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4316422 All years 96,307,025 14,395,603 110,702,628 22,951,534,393 23,062,237,021 0.5%
SPITALUL CLINIC OBSTRETICA-GINECOLOGIEPROFDRPANAIT SIRBU CUI: 4316295 All years 109,716,631 665,282 110,381,913 24,867,205 135,249,118 81.6%
COMUNA AFUMATI CUI: 4420708 All years 99,287,543 10,092,526 109,380,069 64,499,468 173,879,537 62.9%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DEVA CUI: 4374385 All years 108,921,716 21,200 108,942,916 21,487,161 130,430,077 83.5%
SPITAL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BIHOR CUI: 4208498 All years 101,029,594 7,096,544 108,126,138 1,239,353,147 1,347,479,285 8.0%
COMPANIA NATIONALA POSTA ROMANA SA CUI: 427410 All years 89,810,627 17,838,459 107,649,086 868,966,645 976,615,731 11.0%
UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU CUI: 4480173 All years 91,797,188 15,199,598 106,996,786 263,625,670 370,622,456 28.9%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFANTUL IOAN CEL NOU SUCEAVA CUI: 4243983 All years 104,103,119 1,946,413 106,049,532 484,926,973 590,976,505 17.9%
ORAS NAVODARI CUI: 4618382 All years 103,612,425 1,493,396 105,105,821 121,497,986 226,603,807 46.4%
ORASUL VISEU DE SUS CUI: 3627641 All years 103,162,042 1,456,553 104,618,595 436,407,637 541,026,232 19.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SF SPIRIDON IASI CUI: 4701312 All years 104,170,682 354,984 104,525,666 377,154,820 481,680,486 21.7%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA PITESTI CUI: 4122205 All years 104,170,029 166,795 104,336,824 158,939,592 263,276,416 39.6%
COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA CUI: 11054529 All years 70,581,990 33,574,510 104,156,500 32,971,089,234 33,075,245,734 0.3%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII LOUIS TURCANU TIMISOARA CUI: 4548538 All years 102,927,772 1,209,872 104,137,644 81,115,860 185,253,504 56.2%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SI TROPICALE DRVICTOR BABES CUI: 4266049 All years 104,122,167 0 104,122,167 33,527,511 137,649,678 75.6%
VITAL SA CUI: 9710087 All years 102,722,194 1,384,028 104,106,222 1,181,868,565 1,285,974,787 8.1%
INSTITUTUL REGIONAL DE ONCOLOGIE IASI CUI: 29067408 All years 98,061,986 5,610,665 103,672,651 769,496,616 873,169,267 11.9%
MUNICIPIUL MEDGIDIA CUI: 4301456 All years 60,726,078 42,335,583 103,061,661 400,882,431 503,944,092 20.5%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII CRIOGENICE SI IZOTOPICE - ICSI RAMNICU VALCEA CUI: 2538104 All years 99,823,062 3,219,197 103,042,259 177,039,981 280,082,240 36.8%
MUNICIPIUL BACAU CUI: 4278337 All years 27,625,778 75,102,660 102,728,438 1,005,672,859 1,108,401,297 9.3%
ORAS MIOVENI CUI: 4318199 All years 83,098,998 19,586,687 102,685,685 174,490,418 277,176,103 37.1%

101-125 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