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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
ORASUL DARABANI CUI: 3372017 All years 53,181,621 1,252,680 54,434,301 236,919,646 291,353,947 18.7%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII BRASOV CUI: 4317738 All years 52,372,210 1,793,286 54,165,496 28,972,675 83,138,171 65.2%
CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 All years 2,230,749 51,916,646 54,147,395 439,378,895 493,526,290 11.0%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL MANGALIA CUI: 4515441 All years 53,657,047 415,757 54,072,804 34,064,788 88,137,592 61.4%
INSTITUTUL NATGERONTOLOGIE SI GERIATRIE ANA ASLAN CUI: 4283333 All years 53,979,525 0 53,979,525 160,980,203 214,959,728 25.1%
COMUNA MIHAI VITEAZU CUI: 4378832 All years 52,846,084 1,132,602 53,978,686 45,505,132 99,483,818 54.3%
COMUNA GANEASA CUI: 4364411 All years 53,857,167 72,800 53,929,967 49,369,264 103,299,231 52.2%
MUNICIPIUL BISTRITA CUI: 4347569 All years 30,233,793 23,687,881 53,921,674 988,036,428 1,041,958,102 5.2%
COMUNA JILAVA CUI: 4420791 All years 53,730,492 185,000 53,915,492 190,565,951 244,481,443 22.1%
LUCRARI DRUMURI SI PODURI DAMBOVITA SA CUI: 10638988 All years 52,215,212 1,534,252 53,749,464 100,711,179 154,460,643 34.8%
UNIVERSITATEA VALAHIA DIN TARGOVISTE CUI: 4279685 All years 36,210,883 17,439,901 53,650,784 81,340,592 134,991,376 39.7%
DIRECTIA ASIGURARE LOGISTICA INTEGRATA CUI: 4267060 All years 4,233,943 49,386,575 53,620,518 1,013,574,019 1,067,194,537 5.0%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DR EUGEN NICOARA REGHIN CUI: 1235218 All years 51,046,722 2,517,688 53,564,410 44,111,953 97,676,363 54.8%
ADMINISTRATIA STRAZILOR CUI: 4433872 All years 46,035,006 7,463,822 53,498,828 552,568,860 606,067,688 8.8%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL CARACAL CUI: 4395086 All years 51,264,410 2,207,879 53,472,289 110,008,599 163,480,888 32.7%
MUNICIPIUL TOPLITA CUI: 4245178 All years 53,431,790 21,707 53,453,497 180,230,541 233,684,038 22.9%
ORASUL ZARNESTI CUI: 4646897 All years 51,419,085 1,720,433 53,139,518 185,781,423 238,920,941 22.2%
ADMINISTRATIA BAZINALA DE APA BUZAU-IALOMITA CAEN 3600390042916203711271207219841384258559 CUI: 23706189 All years 51,933,083 1,100,349 53,033,432 272,117,689 325,151,121 16.3%
CONFORT URBAN SRL CUI: 1875349 All years 49,272,906 3,749,715 53,022,621 118,771,525 171,794,146 30.9%
ORASUL SIMERIA CUI: 4375135 All years 52,904,701 5,441 52,910,142 77,655,965 130,566,107 40.5%
MUNICIPIUL SLATINA CUI: 4394811 All years 46,432,645 6,361,898 52,794,543 408,192,376 460,986,919 11.5%
ORAS ODOBESTI CUI: 4297827 All years 52,754,411 38,793 52,793,204 206,433,628 259,226,832 20.4%
MUNICIPIUL CODLEA CUI: 4777108 All years 32,171,745 20,607,919 52,779,664 155,044,804 207,824,468 25.4%
MUNICIPIUL PASCANI CUI: 4541360 All years 46,976,438 5,698,577 52,675,015 158,048,399 210,723,414 25.0%
ORASUL URICANI CUI: 4634647 All years 51,709,869 961,701 52,671,570 204,487,220 257,158,790 20.5%

376-400 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