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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
ORAS INEU CUI: 3519020 All years 59,067,064 1,467,491 60,534,555 293,142,045 353,676,600 17.1%
COMUNA SNAGOV CUI: 5643775 All years 58,391,781 1,673,992 60,065,773 68,447,483 128,513,256 46.7%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI SECTOR 3 CUI: 16762836 All years 59,587,004 388,278 59,975,282 0 59,975,282 100.0%
ORAS TITU CUI: 4402590 All years 58,215,782 1,661,112 59,876,894 110,367,886 170,244,780 35.2%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DRCONSTANTIN OPRIS CUI: 3694594 All years 37,603,297 22,254,725 59,858,022 233,702,945 293,560,967 20.4%
ADMINISTRATIA NATIONALA APELE ROMANE -ADMINISTRATIA BAZINALA DE APA MURES CUI: 23719936 All years 59,821,179 0 59,821,179 252,268,397 312,089,576 19.2%
TEATRUL NATIONAL RADU STANCA SIBIU CUI: 4556190 All years 6,388,856 53,307,708 59,696,564 16,959,671 76,656,235 77.9%
COMUNA BRAZI CUI: 2845290 All years 59,691,084 0 59,691,084 61,567,956 121,259,040 49.2%
TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 All years 59,097,366 493,748 59,591,114 74,412,351 134,003,465 44.5%
COMUNA MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU CUI: 4515328 All years 50,117,310 8,895,891 59,013,201 121,073,575 180,086,776 32.8%
AQUACARAS SA CUI: 16868757 All years 58,406,387 387,456 58,793,843 1,003,923,510 1,062,717,353 5.5%
MUNICIPIUL CRAIOVA CUI: 4417214 All years 40,994,865 17,470,563 58,465,428 2,584,060,093 2,642,525,521 2.2%
MUNICIPIUL TARGU SECUIESC CUI: 4201813 All years 58,095,902 341,271 58,437,173 174,625,604 233,062,777 25.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL BLAJ CUI: 4934679 All years 54,591,999 3,707,337 58,299,336 23,930,460 82,229,796 70.9%
AUTORITATEA NATIONALA PENTRU ADMINISTRARE SI REGLEMENTARE IN COMUNICATII CUI: 14751237 All years 29,318,136 28,964,800 58,282,936 338,372,456 396,655,392 14.7%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE ENDOCRINOLOGIE CIPARHON BUCURESTI CUI: 4505367 All years 56,505,987 1,546,568 58,052,555 87,994,667 146,047,222 39.8%
ORAS TASNAD CUI: 3897122 All years 55,571,569 2,447,672 58,019,241 118,016,433 176,035,674 33.0%
ORASUL PUCIOASA CUI: 4280302 All years 57,018,597 971,290 57,989,887 335,007,506 392,997,393 14.8%
ORASUL BALS CUI: 4286437 All years 57,658,813 271,343 57,930,156 173,968,835 231,898,991 25.0%
JUDETUL MARAMURES CUI: 3627315 All years 56,991,839 919,155 57,910,994 1,608,582,200 1,666,493,194 3.5%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL MEDIAS CUI: 4751469 All years 57,649,600 0 57,649,600 35,580,890 93,230,490 61.8%
DIRECTIA DE INFRASTRUCTURA SI SERVICII BISTRITA CUI: 25503261 All years 41,754,710 15,881,356 57,636,066 83,477,469 141,113,535 40.8%
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA VALCEA CUI: 2540589 All years 50,345,477 7,062,620 57,408,097 585,140,921 642,549,018 8.9%
INSTITUTUL DE BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE TIMISOARA CUI: 5189211 All years 57,252,003 0 57,252,003 249,210,039 306,462,042 18.7%
COMUNA PERIS CUI: 4611554 All years 56,824,099 341,828 57,165,927 15,868,345 73,034,272 78.3%

326-350 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