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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
JUDETUL BIHOR CUI: 4244997 All years 83,259,219 2,272,869 85,532,088 2,161,404,035 2,246,936,123 3.8%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA TARGU MURES CUI: 4323209 All years 85,271,274 156,220 85,427,494 210,434,105 295,861,599 28.9%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 All years 84,926,496 491,184 85,417,680 28,637,691 114,055,371 74.9%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA CARANSEBES CUI: 3228209 All years 85,372,738 0 85,372,738 6,068,440 91,441,178 93.4%
ORASUL SALCEA CUI: 4244180 All years 84,644,724 503,537 85,148,261 52,051,217 137,199,478 62.1%
JUDETUL GALATI CUI: 3127476 All years 84,747,627 249,000 84,996,627 3,559,863,497 3,644,860,124 2.3%
SOCIETATEA NATIONALA AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL TIMISOARA-TRAIAN VUIA- SA CUI: 11178217 All years 78,378,067 6,271,086 84,649,153 477,159,069 561,808,222 15.1%
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE GRIGORE T POPA DIN IASI CUI: 4701100 All years 81,711,105 2,931,815 84,642,920 411,549,985 496,192,905 17.1%
COMPANIA APA BRASOV SA CUI: 1096128 All years 67,615,484 16,913,051 84,528,535 1,244,618,526 1,329,147,061 6.4%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DROBETA TURNU SEVERIN CUI: 4222239 All years 80,866,024 3,193,318 84,059,342 401,446,281 485,505,623 17.3%
MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605 All years 61,384,007 22,548,739 83,932,746 744,868,678 828,801,424 10.1%
MUNICIPIUL BOTOSANI CUI: 3372882 All years 80,950,129 2,370,412 83,320,541 740,112,754 823,433,295 10.1%
MUNICIPIUL HUNEDOARA CUI: 2127028 All years 81,680,116 1,585,775 83,265,891 485,848,447 569,114,338 14.6%
SANATORIUL BALNEAR SI DE RECUPERARE TECHIRGHIOL CUI: 4300868 All years 83,014,037 237,600 83,251,637 119,285,073 202,536,710 41.1%
AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL AVRAM IANCU CLUJ RA CUI: 2882425 All years 80,438,361 2,769,616 83,207,977 969,006,187 1,052,214,164 7.9%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SFANTUL IERARH DRLUCA ONESTI CUI: 4278825 All years 82,739,981 461,616 83,201,597 105,348,588 188,550,185 44.1%
COMUNA DOMNESTI CUI: 4221136 All years 80,734,215 2,369,034 83,103,249 74,246,135 157,349,384 52.8%
ORAS BORSA CUI: 3627544 All years 38,481,361 44,575,361 83,056,722 297,061,675 380,118,397 21.9%
SERVICII EDILITARE PENTRU COMUNITATE MIOVENI SRL CUI: 27280093 All years 81,838,932 1,138,595 82,977,527 6,810,649 89,788,176 92.4%
JUDETUL DAMBOVITA CUI: 4280205 All years 77,016,725 5,956,925 82,973,650 1,781,771,457 1,864,745,107 4.5%
ORASUL CERNAVODA CUI: 4304568 All years 64,368,126 18,501,207 82,869,333 273,376,135 356,245,468 23.3%
COMPANIA REGIONALA DE APA BACAU SA CUI: 27429315 All years 72,338,326 10,401,651 82,739,977 2,598,745,897 2,681,485,874 3.1%
ORAS VALENII DE MUNTE CUI: 2842870 All years 82,675,356 0 82,675,356 157,003,327 239,678,683 34.5%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DR FOGOLYAN KRISTOF SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4202010 All years 81,849,547 731,389 82,580,936 59,735,495 142,316,431 58.0%
COMUNA GIARMATA CUI: 6049470 All years 73,005,122 8,911,402 81,916,524 125,321,551 207,238,075 39.5%

176-200 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