Skip to content

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
SALUBRIZARE SI SERVICII PUBLICE FOCSANI SA CUI: 25616767 All years 21,931,252 14,483,269 36,414,521 44,733,433 81,147,954 44.9%
OPERA NATIONALA ROMANA CUI: 4354558 All years 34,667,715 1,688,169 36,355,884 4,122,965 40,478,849 89.8%
ORAS SACUENI CUI: 4593474 All years 33,058,532 3,296,248 36,354,780 90,155,344 126,510,124 28.7%
ACMVOL DESIGN SA CUI: 33137064 All years 36,024,838 304,579 36,329,417 4,664,976 40,994,393 88.6%
SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938 All years 36,102,961 205,997 36,308,958 30,573,887 66,882,845 54.3%
COMUNA VIDRA CUI: 4297649 All years 36,290,620 0 36,290,620 45,812,462 82,103,082 44.2%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE RECUPERARE CUI: 4288063 All years 34,656,846 1,602,056 36,258,902 127,906,734 164,165,636 22.1%
COMUNA BAIA CUI: 4674790 All years 36,039,750 207,073 36,246,823 87,356,520 123,603,343 29.3%
SPITALUL FILISANILOR CUI: 5077722 All years 36,208,655 14,460 36,223,115 24,017,565 60,240,680 60.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ORASTIE CUI: 5808334 All years 36,215,065 0 36,215,065 32,402,680 68,617,745 52.8%
DIRECTIA DE ADMINISTRARE A DOMENIULUI PUBLIC-SLOBOZIA CUI: 7326960 All years 36,211,081 0 36,211,081 9,232,769 45,443,850 79.7%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI OLT CUI: 9746625 All years 33,821,377 2,381,798 36,203,175 108,313,319 144,516,494 25.1%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIE SI BOLI INFECTIOASE BRASOV CUI: 4443175 All years 36,166,130 0 36,166,130 17,308,374 53,474,504 67.6%
COMUNA GRUIU CUI: 5026273 All years 35,870,731 281,127 36,151,858 18,673,194 54,825,052 65.9%
COMUNA CORUND CUI: 4246084 All years 35,374,335 687,369 36,061,704 46,457,161 82,518,865 43.7%
COMUNA COPALNIC MANASTUR CUI: 3695115 All years 35,710,608 315,239 36,025,847 67,131,797 103,157,644 34.9%
SPITALUL CLINIC DE PSIHIATRIE SI NEUROLOGIE BRASOV CUI: 4317770 All years 24,356,590 11,665,167 36,021,757 61,299,409 97,321,166 37.0%
COMUNA 1 DECEMBRIE CUI: 4505588 All years 35,988,611 0 35,988,611 28,331,453 64,320,064 56.0%
TURSIB SA CUI: 789401 All years 27,391,329 8,573,062 35,964,391 167,771,927 203,736,318 17.7%
ORASUL PETRILA CUI: 4375097 All years 32,397,132 3,558,979 35,956,111 226,245,601 262,201,712 13.7%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SALONTA CUI: 4287947 All years 35,801,337 150,075 35,951,412 25,145,519 61,096,931 58.8%
ORAS CUGIR CUI: 5146873 All years 19,223,121 16,664,567 35,887,688 218,877,570 254,765,258 14.1%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI A JUD VASLUI CUI: 17095927 All years 29,932,388 5,828,836 35,761,224 151,055,404 186,816,628 19.1%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU SECURITATE MINIERA SI PROTECTIE ANTIEXPLOZIVA - INSEMEX PETROSANI CUI: 2664676 All years 33,982,936 1,727,240 35,710,176 34,676,029 70,386,205 50.7%
ORASUL OTELU ROSU CUI: 3227971 All years 35,699,441 0 35,699,441 36,410,945 72,110,386 49.5%

676-700 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