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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

3,832

Cumulative flagged value

3.75 Bn.

Average direct purchases per group

3.6

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

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

Artificial slicing of direct purchases
Contracting authority Supplier CPV group Contract type Year Direct purchases Cumulative value Average per purchase Largest purchase Purchases
MUNICIPIUL REGHIN CUI: 3675258 PROBICONS SRL CUI: 14471008 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 6 1,793,429 298,905 449,741 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE STIINTA SI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCURESTI CUI: 48467613 OVIRAMAR CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 24779308 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 3 1,793,296 597,765 899,742 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA FRATAUTII VECHI CUI: 4244342 CHEZA SRL CUI: 13698917 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 1,793,142 896,571 898,350 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DORNA CANDRENILOR CUI: 4326914 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,792,687 896,344 897,284 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CHIAJNA CUI: 4364527 ROCO INSTAL COMUNAL SRL CUI: 27221461 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,791,194 895,597 896,923 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SCHEIA CUI: 4327421 HIDROTERRA SA CUI: 715617 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,791,096 895,548 898,797 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA REBRICEA CUI: 3394228 SC LUCRARI DRUMURI SI PODURI SA VASLUI CUI: 10946600 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,790,882 895,441 895,836 See the direct purchases behind this group
APA-CTTA SA CUI: 1755482 AVANTI RO SRL CUI: 14220472 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,790,750 895,375 896,500 See the direct purchases behind this group
SOIM CONS SRL CUI: 27251055 DAPA NEWTOTAL CONS SRL CUI: 44471255 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,789,906 894,953 896,917 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL ILFOV CUI: 4192545 UNITIP GLOBAL SRL CUI: 30372855 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 5 1,789,513 357,903 450,050 See the direct purchases behind this group
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE STIINTA SI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCURESTI CUI: 48467613 GAMA ADMIN CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 29503256 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 1,789,166 894,583 896,832 See the direct purchases behind this group
MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605 GEIGER BRASOV SRL CUI: 14873188 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,786,791 893,396 898,434 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA VORNICENI CUI: 3643914 LIGVOR SRL CUI: 38887300 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,786,038 893,019 900,050 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CHIRNOGENI CUI: 6483311 DAF TRANS 2000 SRL CUI: 12899831 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,785,780 892,890 898,380 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA UMBRARESTI CUI: 4393131 LECO BAU SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 33404471 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,783,126 891,563 895,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SECTORUL 3 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4420465 SKOO ENGINEERING & TRADING SRL CUI: 42343896 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 2 1,782,000 891,000 891,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DEDA CUI: 4765618 ALL TIN SRL CUI: 18247861 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,780,989 593,663 897,670 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA NEGRASI CUI: 5103457 VAS CONSTRUCT EXCLUSIV SRL CUI: 32341928 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 1,780,530 890,265 899,080 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SADOVA CUI: 4326779 CALCARUL SA CUI: 7220224 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 2 1,780,489 890,245 891,004 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL DAMBOVITA CUI: 4280205 ROYALVIL SRL CUI: 32451203 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,780,000 890,000 890,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
SC LUCRARI DRUMURI SI PODURI SA VASLUI CUI: 10946600 MATSORG RECYCLE SRL CUI: 38127479 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 8 1,778,700 222,338 427,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
ORASUL SALCEA CUI: 4244180 AREMYS LAND SRL CUI: 30420316 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,778,317 889,159 889,159 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SELIMBAR CUI: 4406045 ARIADNA IMOBILIARE SRL CUI: 34979265 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 11 1,777,696 161,609 436,938 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMPANIA DE APA OLTENIA SA CUI: 11400673 AQUAGAZ CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 50348827 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 4 1,777,523 444,381 766,568 See the direct purchases behind this group
JUDETUL ILFOV CUI: 4192545 HARVESE GRUP SRL CUI: 16101044 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,776,522 888,261 896,061 See the direct purchases behind this group

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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.
Purchases
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