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High risk #01 Slicing

Artificial slicing of direct purchases

Repeated direct purchases from one supplier, each below the legal ceiling, together above it.

A large need is covered by several direct purchases from the same supplier, in the same CPV group and the same year, each below the legal ceiling (today 270,120 lei for goods and services and 900,400 lei for works; half that until September 2022). Together they pass the ceiling, and the tender the law requires is avoided. Computed on direct purchases only.

Slicing groups

20

Cumulative flagged value

4.54 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

3.0

Flagged groups by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

Flagged value by CPV group

The 10 largest CPV groups by value; the other 242 are added into a single tile.

How it is computed

Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases with a supplier (CUI) and a CPV code are kept.
  2. They are grouped on five keys: the authority, the supplier, the first three digits of the CPV code, the year and the contract type.
  3. Groups with a single purchase are dropped: one purchase alone is not slicing.
  4. For each group the purchase values are added up, and the average and the largest are computed.
  5. The ceiling is the one in force on the day each purchase was published, for its contract type. In the years the ceiling changed (2018, 2022) the group splits in two, each part with its own ceiling.
  6. The group is flagged when its total passes the ceiling. The purchases are not judged one by one: their sum is what counts.

Thresholds

Purchases published Goods and services Works
until 03.06.2018Legea 98/2016 132,519 441,730
04.06.2018 – 09.09.2022OUG 45/2018 135,060 450,200
from 10.09.2022Legea 208/2022 270,120 900,400

Ceilings exclude VAT (Legea 98/2016, art. 7(5)). Each purchase is compared with the ceiling in force on the day it was published. The ceilings and procedures, explained.

  • At least two direct purchases to the same supplier, in the same CPV group and year

Direct purchases only. Tenders and framework agreements are not counted.

Grouping uses the first three CPV digits, so different products of the same family land in one group. That is how the legal ceiling applies too, but it can join purchases that do not replace one another.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 THE COUCH MEDIA GROUP SRL CUI: 37415430 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 2 633,500 316,750 448,500
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 DEASIGN PRINT SRL CUI: 29068268 183 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 3 292,500 97,500 133,800
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PRIME ACT DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 35095305 375 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 285,750 71,438 134,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 LOUD MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SRL CUI: 32303096 323 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 272,800 68,200 131,800
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 LOUD MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SRL CUI: 32303096 442 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 270,000 135,000 135,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 RC ENERGO INSTALL SRL CUI: 17701071 315 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 268,450 134,225 134,450
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 LOUD MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SRL CUI: 32303096 799 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 268,000 134,000 134,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 FRATELLI SPORTS SRL CUI: 25068338 183 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 3 252,450 84,150 89,100
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PAPERAMAG SRL CUI: 36785320 302 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 3 211,750 70,583 88,750
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 RC ENERGO INSTALL SRL CUI: 17701071 315 servicii ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 2 198,970 99,485 131,670
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PRIME ACT DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 35095305 375 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 6 195,446 32,574 63,756
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 BEST PRESS ADVERTISING SRL CUI: 34200275 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 183,000 91,500 135,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 SOMA SOCIAL SRL CUI: 30326522 722 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 182,000 91,000 126,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 AS STUDIO CO SRL CUI: 30597653 923 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 162,000 81,000 127,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PRIME ACT DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 35095305 158 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 6 154,200 25,700 55,300
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 QUERCUS COMPANY GRUP SRL CUI: 8467010 555 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 2 146,250 73,125 135,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 UNIVERSAL IMPEX COMPANY EST SRL CUI: 15948424 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 143,000 71,500 99,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PAPERAMAG SRL CUI: 36785320 301 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 2 142,140 71,070 134,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 PRIME ACT DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 35095305 392 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 2 139,500 69,750 135,000
CENTRUL CULTURAL SI DE TINERET STEFAN IORDACHE CUI: 36772516 FRATELLI SPORTS SRL CUI: 25068338 374 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 6 139,024 23,171 133,875

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Contracting authority
The authority that made the purchases. It had to run a tender once the ceiling was passed.
Supplier
The company that received every purchase in the group.
CPV group
The first three digits of the CPV code: the family of goods or services bought.
Contract type
Supply, services or works. The type and the date set the ceiling, shown under the type.
Year
The year of publication. In 2018 and 2022, when the ceiling changed, the year holds two groups, with the period shown under the year.
Direct purchases
How many direct purchases the group holds (at least two).
Cumulative value
The group's purchases added up. This is compared with the ceiling.
Average per purchase
The cumulative value divided by the number of purchases. A small average beside a large total is the typical sign of slicing.
Largest purchase
The largest purchase in the group. If it sits just below the ceiling, see indicator #02 too.
Opens the group's direct purchases: same authority, supplier, CPV group, year and contract type.

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/reference/years
  • /api/v1/reference/contract-types
  • /api/v1/red-flags/fractionare
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/fractionare/cpv-spend

Open data and API