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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
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA SFIOAN CUI: 4204178 All years 48,409,242 22,121,157 70,530,399 316,352,529 386,882,928 18.2%
SOCIETATEA COMPLEXUL ENERGETIC OLTENIA SA CUI: 30267310 All years 3,729,253 66,559,888 70,289,141 3,324,388,096 3,394,677,237 2.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ARAD CUI: 3519879 All years 67,909,026 2,076,792 69,985,818 778,936,422 848,922,240 8.2%
COMUNA JUCU CUI: 4426212 All years 69,577,940 398,275 69,976,215 215,428,248 285,404,463 24.5%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL PLOIESTI CUI: 2844227 All years 61,734,233 8,209,346 69,943,579 100,775,255 170,718,834 41.0%
INSTITUTUL ONCOLOGIC PROFDRICHIRICUTA CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4547125 All years 69,196,312 225,565 69,421,877 1,169,964,374 1,239,386,251 5.6%
ORASUL JIMBOLIA CUI: 2502763 All years 60,277,792 8,747,278 69,025,070 69,739,585 138,764,655 49.7%
COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC IASI SA CUI: 32175213 All years 66,743,947 2,202,969 68,946,916 376,239,193 445,186,109 15.5%
SOCIETATEA DE PRODUCERE A ENERGIEI ELECTRICE IN HIDROCENTRALE HIDROELECTRICA SA CUI: 13267213 All years 10,624,187 58,095,444 68,719,631 4,373,967,406 4,442,687,037 1.6%
MUNICIPIUL REGHIN CUI: 3675258 All years 68,620,919 0 68,620,919 154,698,724 223,319,643 30.7%
SERVICII PUBLICE IASI SA CUI: 27277063 All years 63,813,460 4,727,988 68,541,448 50,105,171 118,646,619 57.8%
ORASUL SIMLEU SILVANIEI CUI: 4566658 All years 68,332,706 79,200 68,411,906 285,779,706 354,191,612 19.3%
CLUBUL SPORTIV RAPID-BUCURESTI CUI: 4420651 All years 67,759,831 259,571 68,019,402 37,783,318 105,802,720 64.3%
SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE GAZE NATURALE ROMGAZ SA CUI: 14056826 All years 27,223,999 40,752,844 67,976,843 4,255,134,875 4,323,111,718 1.6%
MUNICIPIUL CARACAL CUI: 4395175 All years 67,923,609 2,000 67,925,609 326,531,715 394,457,324 17.2%
ORAS HOREZU CUI: 2541479 All years 67,754,337 0 67,754,337 134,252,320 202,006,657 33.5%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DR ALEXANDRU SIMIONESCU HUNEDOARA CUI: 5453860 All years 66,294,797 1,393,697 67,688,494 67,427,451 135,115,945 50.1%
TERMICA DISTRIBUTIE NAVODARI SRL CUI: 27381730 All years 67,639,330 0 67,639,330 0 67,639,330 100.0%
AMENAJARE EDILITARA S5 SA CUI: 27515874 All years 65,607,250 1,979,385 67,586,635 263,823,185 331,409,820 20.4%
INSTITUTUL DE URGENTA PENTRU BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE PROFDRCC ILIESCU CUI: 4203628 All years 67,018,036 500,790 67,518,826 39,658,769 107,177,595 63.0%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SF DOCTORI COSMA SI DAMIAN RADAUTI CUI: 4327367 All years 60,868,095 6,648,822 67,516,917 198,845,956 266,362,873 25.4%
JUDETUL MURES CUI: 4322980 All years 38,873,936 28,381,166 67,255,102 845,891,286 913,146,388 7.4%
COMUNA BRANESTI CUI: 4420724 All years 43,216,483 23,912,415 67,128,898 181,639,929 248,768,827 27.0%
ORASUL GURA HUMORULUI CUI: 6631418 All years 65,158,909 1,941,865 67,100,774 163,399,578 230,500,352 29.1%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA A MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 15531230 All years 51,227,511 15,857,432 67,084,943 158,117,306 225,202,249 29.8%

251-275 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