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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

730

Cumulative flagged value

272.06 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

44.1

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
GOSPODARIRE MONITORIZARE SI TRANSPORT BRANESTI SRL CUI: 30510397 IBB PRODUCTIE BETON & ASFALT SRL CUI: 43114769 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 396,173 132,058 267,940
COMUNA PADURENI CUI: 3394341 VIACONS RUTIER SRL CUI: 14234540 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 2 396,000 198,000 264,000
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 MET INTER PROD SRL CUI: 36749319 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 38 395,850 10,417 19,800
COMUNA PERIENI CUI: 4540020 ELECTRICOPET SRL CUI: 15747927 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 3 394,400 131,467 134,560
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 AMP GRUP SRL CUI: 23207235 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 87 391,071 4,495 7,963
SERVICII PUBLICE IASI SA CUI: 27277063 ARABESQUE SRL CUI: 5340801 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 140 390,980 2,793 15,585
APA CANAL SA CUI: 16914128 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 216 390,100 1,806 26,927
ACMVOL DESIGN SA CUI: 33137064 SUT CARPATI SA CUI: 2784583 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 4 390,050 97,513 186,300
COMUNA GORNESTI CUI: 4322521 DENIMAT DLS SRL CUI: 9613912 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 7 387,881 55,412 83,904
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 MET INTER PROD SRL CUI: 36749319 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 40 386,160 9,654 14,740
PRESTARI SERVICII RASTOACA SRL CUI: 37905750 LUPINOCOM INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 10486804 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 385,430 128,477 134,300
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 MARCOLINI 98 SRL CUI: 11035217 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 56 382,466 6,830 21,752
UTILITATI PUBLICE CERNAVODA SRL CUI: 27477177 PPS INDUSTRIE GLOBALA SRL CUI: 43180622 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 2 382,241 191,121 254,241
COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966 ANTODRU INTERMED SRL CUI: 15538734 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 26 380,510 14,635 115,033
TETKRON SRL CUI: 27272953 ZANDER DEP SRL CUI: 43676554 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 2 379,288 189,644 270,088
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 4244210 DOREMIT STIL SRL CUI: 27948320 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 9 378,346 42,038 110,895
SERVICII PUBLICE IASI SA CUI: 27277063 ARABESQUE SRL CUI: 5340801 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 76 377,341 4,965 21,421
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 16 377,020 23,564 61,500
AQUACARAS SA CUI: 16868757 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 82 376,900 4,596 50,665
LUCRARI DRUMURI SI PODURI DAMBOVITA SA CUI: 10638988 SAV-BOG TRANS SRL CUI: 15479050 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 376,610 125,537 241,490
SERVICII PUBLICE IASI SA CUI: 27277063 START SELL SRL CUI: 47581074 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 73 375,176 5,139 26,215
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 TIREX DARRIN SRL CUI: 38108051 441 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 204 372,903 1,828 24,350
SOCIETATE PENTRU LUCRARI DE DRUMURI SI PODURI REISER SA CUI: 10470956 SYMMETRICA SRL CUI: 6552535 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 9 371,980 41,331 74,436
COMPANIA DE APA SOMES SA CUI: 201217 WINTER COM SRL CUI: 7702347 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 61 371,860 6,096 96,438
RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 ROTOUAREG INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 19202396 441 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 158 370,571 2,345 12,182

176-200 of 730 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