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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

418

Cumulative flagged value

203.56 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

23.6

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
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 STERILECO SRL CUI: 15071999 905 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 66 2,700,166 40,912 49,900
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 DRMAX SRL CUI: 9378655 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 94 2,428,437 25,834 49,872
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 78 2,424,860 31,088 49,980
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 STERILECO SRL CUI: 15071999 905 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 55 2,353,121 42,784 49,493
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 65 2,339,218 35,988 49,950
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 NOVAINTERMED SRL CUI: 6220293 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 63 1,876,628 29,788 49,897
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PRIME HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 22609455 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 104 1,716,831 16,508 49,970
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PRIME HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 22609455 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 121 1,693,431 13,995 49,750
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 CS EXPERT CONSTRUCT IMPEX SRL CUI: 424901 454 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 38 1,663,685 43,781 49,993
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 85 1,623,471 19,100 48,500
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 ALPHA MEDICAL SRL CUI: 13878004 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 120 1,547,020 12,892 49,700
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 NOVAINTERMED SRL CUI: 6220293 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 66 1,547,003 23,439 49,873
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 NOVAINTERMED SRL CUI: 6220293 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 75 1,436,750 19,157 49,850
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 LIMAS GROUP SRL CUI: 11013782 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 63 1,416,704 22,487 50,000
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 CHRONOS TRADE MEDICAL SRL CUI: 34533881 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 54 1,399,084 25,909 49,800
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PRION POCT SRL CUI: 25426886 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 41 1,390,686 33,919 49,815
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 ALPHA MEDICAL SRL CUI: 13878004 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 103 1,372,430 13,325 48,590
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 NOVAINTERMED SRL CUI: 6220293 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 54 1,350,530 25,010 49,150
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PRIME HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 22609455 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 101 1,303,403 12,905 49,963
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PRIME HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 22609455 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 111 1,298,466 11,698 45,485
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 51 1,274,933 24,999 49,950
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8955860 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 61 1,266,493 20,762 50,000
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 51 1,259,124 24,689 49,860
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 65 1,237,640 19,041 49,656
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 ROPHARMA SA CUI: 1962437 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 38 1,235,709 32,519 44,330

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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