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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

2,232

Cumulative flagged value

711.64 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

27.7

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
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA PIUS BRINZEU TIMISOARA CUI: 4663448 LUXMED VEST DISTRIBUTION SRL CUI: 32546451 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 7 404,960 57,851 174,000
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 VELMED INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 29403699 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 32 404,918 12,654 45,500
CENTRUL MEDICAL DE DIAGNOSTIC TRATAMENT AMBULATORIU SI MEDICINA PREVENTIVA - BUCURESTI CUI: 4283325 EVO HEALTHCARE CONSULTING SRL CUI: 34868372 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 31 404,817 13,059 94,200
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SF SPIRIDON IASI CUI: 4701312 MEDIST IMAGING & POC SRL CUI: 24205100 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 404,670 101,168 189,000
SPITALUL CLINIC FILANTROPIA CUI: 4532388 BOX LINE SRL CUI: 37856070 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 15 404,211 26,947 79,560
SPITALUL CLINIC CAI FERATE CONSTANTA CUI: 4210790 LIAMED SRL CUI: 10188824 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 9 403,766 44,863 106,786
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ZALAU CUI: 4291719 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 89 403,714 4,536 101,705
SPITALUL UNIVERSITAR DE URGENTA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283570 PRIME HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 22609455 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 34 403,496 11,868 79,000
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 GLOBAL MED CARE SRL CUI: 14320455 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 105 402,979 3,838 21,060
UNIVDE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4192910 DEXELLENCE PROJECT SRL CUI: 31523689 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 18 402,163 22,342 148,800
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII LOUIS TURCANU TIMISOARA CUI: 4548538 BBRAUN MEDICAL SRL CUI: 11080242 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 87 402,103 4,622 18,880
SPITALUL CLINIC CF NR2 BUCURESTI CUI: 4505316 BIOLIFE GRUP SRL CUI: 15487975 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 48 402,031 8,376 47,800
SPITALUL CLINIC DR ICANTACUZINO CUI: 4203490 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 41849411 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 20 401,950 20,098 54,000
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SIBIU CUI: 4240898 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 23 401,743 17,467 44,500
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 EXIMIA MEDICAL SRL CUI: 39470890 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 36 401,740 11,159 50,000
SPITALUL DE RECUPERARE CARDIOVASCULARA DR BENEDEK GEZA CUI: 4404559 ANTONIA CONF SRL CUI: 37840015 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 9 401,250 44,583 221,250
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 THREE PHARM SRL CUI: 26361386 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 17 400,226 23,543 46,300
SANADOR SRL CUI: 12530000 MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 41 400,160 9,760 56,400
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL OLTENITA CUI: 4294138 ROSALVAMED PLUS SRL CUI: 43233441 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 53 399,990 7,547 35,120
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL CALAFAT CUI: 4830040 LIAMED SRL CUI: 10188824 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 14 399,802 28,557 203,620
UM 0521 BUCURESTI CUI: 8372077 ZIMMER BIOMET ROMANIA SRL CUI: 39696626 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 6 399,428 66,571 142,939
INSTITUTUL ONCOLOGIC PROFDRALEXANDRU TRESTIOREANU BUCURESTI CUI: 4203709 NOVITRADE SRL CUI: 15011423 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 20 399,280 19,964 80,640
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFANTUL APOSTOL ANDREI CONSTANTA CUI: 4301103 CRIO - 2 SRL CUI: 4414293 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 43 399,145 9,282 50,800
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA CUI: 4505332 LIMAS GROUP SRL CUI: 11013782 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 6 399,130 66,522 210,800
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 PHARMASAVE SRL CUI: 16686836 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 15 398,910 26,594 48,000

451-475 of 2232 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
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