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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

547

Cumulative flagged value

157.71 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

7.2

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
MUNICIPIUL BRASOV CUI: 4384206 CONTAG SRL CUI: 2324178 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 2 393,616 196,808 222,990
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA FARMACIE STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE GEORGE EMIL PALADE DIN TARGU MURES CUI: 4322742 TORENT SRL CUI: 18230568 391 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 8 392,114 49,014 128,100
LICEUL TEORETIC NICHITA STANESCU CUI: 4192987 CLASS SPORT SRL CUI: 12624210 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 3 391,190 130,397 207,110
COMUNA PLESOI CUI: 16397889 SOFTROM GRUP SRL CUI: 16065251 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 390,556 195,278 196,104
COMUNA CIOCHINA CUI: 4231830 SILUAN PROIECT SRL CUI: 35825850 391 furnizare ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 3 390,000 130,000 130,000
COMUNA PETROVA CUI: 3627684 ARCON PRO-DESIGN SRL CUI: 37275523 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 386,708 193,354 239,515
COMUNA SANMARTIN CUI: 4641296 SARAMOB DESIGN SRL CUI: 17023602 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 385,247 192,624 230,363
COMUNA PRUNDU BARGAULUII CUI: 4347410 AGROCONSTRUCT ALX SRL CUI: 45341016 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 384,114 192,057 269,457
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE CRAIOVA CUI: 10815397 M & D RETAIL CRAIOVA SRL CUI: 44538290 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 31 383,554 12,373 59,550
COMUNA STREJESTI CUI: 4867685 SOFTROM GRUP SRL CUI: 16065251 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 382,392 191,196 227,475
MUNICIPIUL RESITA CUI: 3228764 DACUS BRICOLAJ SRL CUI: 42260022 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 4 381,667 95,417 190,868
GRADINITA NR211 CUI: 4316716 NOMILAND RO SRL CUI: 40550259 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 2 379,722 189,861 220,055
COMUNA GODINESTI CUI: 4898819 PRINTECH COMPANY SRL CUI: 16617933 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 379,353 189,677 216,360
MUNICIPIUL TARGU SECUIESC CUI: 4201813 PROMOBIL SRL CUI: 15483434 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 379,012 189,506 195,704
SECTORUL 6 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4340730 BILANCIA EXIM SRL CUI: 3968479 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 378,716 189,358 258,289
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR112 CUI: 32577237 CLASS SPORT SRL CUI: 12624210 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 8 375,769 46,971 72,590
COMUNA TUNARI CUI: 4505618 DEVA HEY SRL CUI: 49472901 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 3 374,353 124,784 252,782
COMUNA SUSANI CUI: 2573977 GARANT EUROCONS SRL CUI: 31808414 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 372,750 186,375 249,950
COMUNA ARCUS CUI: 16318699 FOCUS SRL CUI: 6830887 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 369,949 184,975 200,554
COMUNA SAPANTA CUI: 3695107 GREEN HOUSE PACT SRL CUI: 29462903 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 2 367,240 183,620 266,240
COMUNA VLADESTI CUI: 2540635 CEGIM SRL CUI: 4556450 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 3 366,799 122,266 203,767
ORASUL POPESTI-LEORDENI CUI: 4505596 ROYAL INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE SRL CUI: 26458363 391 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 366,468 122,156 129,525
GRADINITA CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT GHIMBAV CUI: 50493460 MIVIO SRL CUI: 51868267 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 8 365,827 45,728 189,445
COMUNA VINDEREI CUI: 3394104 ILAROPEC SRL CUI: 36826063 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 365,450 182,725 251,350
ORAS SLANIC CUI: 2843604 AXDEL LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 29843533 391 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 2 364,680 182,340 269,022

101-125 of 547 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