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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 RIMNICU SARAT CUI: 2406871 All years 64,811,318 2,099,402 66,910,720 265,206,553 332,117,273 20.2%
MUNICIPIUL CAMPINA CUI: 2843272 All years 62,848,758 3,960,818 66,809,576 198,501,683 265,311,259 25.2%
CENTRUL MEDICAL DE DIAGNOSTIC TRATAMENT AMBULATORIU SI MEDICINA PREVENTIVA - BUCURESTI CUI: 4283325 All years 65,793,102 446,480 66,239,582 136,588,023 202,827,605 32.7%
COMUNA BALOTESTI CUI: 4532469 All years 66,079,340 160,127 66,239,467 15,499,990 81,739,457 81.0%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE POLITIE A MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4221160 All years 65,636,755 585,322 66,222,077 116,669,879 182,891,956 36.2%
ORAS BAIA SPRIE CUI: 3694918 All years 65,083,556 1,021,064 66,104,620 122,557,638 188,662,258 35.0%
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE ARTA TEATRALA SI CINEMATOGRAFICA ION LUCA CARAGIALE DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4453160 All years 66,002,456 69,035 66,071,491 37,022,957 103,094,448 64.1%
COMPANIA DE APA ARAD SA CUI: 1683483 All years 64,711,401 1,345,850 66,057,251 323,637,410 389,694,661 17.0%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI SECTOR 5 CUI: 17104480 All years 64,096,349 1,515,541 65,611,890 244,660,500 310,272,390 21.2%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ACADEMICIAN LEON DANAILA DOROHOI CUI: 13727320 All years 65,152,240 371,014 65,523,254 20,175,735 85,698,989 76.5%
ECOAQUA SA CUI: 16730672 All years 52,545,900 12,762,583 65,308,483 874,782,603 940,091,086 7.0%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI TIMIS CUI: 17090636 All years 46,084,864 19,192,840 65,277,704 77,239,468 142,517,172 45.8%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIE LEON DANIELLO CUI: 4354540 All years 65,085,997 74,970 65,160,967 14,952,279 80,113,246 81.3%
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE CRAIOVA CUI: 10815397 All years 63,910,642 1,082,531 64,993,173 204,699,686 269,692,859 24.1%
CURTEA DE CONTURI A ROMANIEI CUI: 4265922 All years 35,294,540 29,489,847 64,784,387 209,765,897 274,550,284 23.6%
SPITAL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA MIERCUREA CIUC CUI: 4245305 All years 52,514,248 12,203,588 64,717,836 139,634,215 204,352,051 31.7%
SECTORUL 2 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4204038 All years 58,952,344 5,559,828 64,512,172 923,630,084 988,142,256 6.5%
MUNICIPIUL MIERCUREA-CIUC CUI: 4245747 All years 32,769,215 31,632,621 64,401,836 516,093,847 580,495,683 11.1%
SPITALUL DE PEDIATRIE PLOIESTI CUI: 15513888 All years 63,447,802 794,928 64,242,730 9,825,692 74,068,422 86.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC DR CI PARHON IASI CUI: 4540895 All years 60,864,288 3,371,370 64,235,658 81,117,793 145,353,451 44.2%
MUNICIPIUL PLOIESTI CUI: 2844855 All years 62,655,093 1,539,645 64,194,738 653,295,052 717,489,790 9.0%
COMPANIA NATIONALA PENTRU CONTROLUL CAZANELOR INSTALATIILOR DE RIDICAT SI RECIPIENTELOR SUB PRESIUNE - CNCIR SA CUI: 27787860 All years 55,934,761 8,117,403 64,052,164 80,462,908 144,515,072 44.3%
MUNICIPIUL MARGHITA CUI: 4348947 All years 63,857,264 65,981 63,923,245 148,934,009 212,857,254 30.0%
COMUNA SANANDREI CUI: 5390656 All years 63,851,152 0 63,851,152 57,299,466 121,150,618 52.7%
COMUNA STEFANESTII DE JOS CUI: 4420775 All years 60,966,929 2,497,628 63,464,557 179,978,201 243,442,758 26.1%

276-300 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