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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

463

Cumulative flagged value

155.22 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.0

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
COMUNA BUZESCU CUI: 4568454 ADELLE BUSINESS CONCEPT SRL CUI: 46764472 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 300,000 150,000 150,000
COMUNA COJOCNA CUI: 5022204 ADARA FONDURI EUROPENE SRL CUI: 39697257 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 298,800 149,400 243,800
MUNICIPIUL CALARASI CUI: 4445370 INTEGRISOFT SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 12448483 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 4 298,633 74,658 141,727
SECTORUL 6 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4340730 VISION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT SRL CUI: 38266817 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 2 298,500 149,250 202,500
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE EXPERTIZA MEDICALA SI RECUPERARE A CAPACITATII DE MUNCA BUCURESTI CUI: 4340579 DIGITAL DATA SERVICES SRL CUI: 14482414 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 297,897 148,949 153,860
SNGN ROMGAZ SA-FILIALA DE INMAGAZINARE GAZE NATURALE DEPOGAZ PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 34915261 ARCTIC STREAM SA CUI: 38114908 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 296,338 98,779 179,433
COMUNA TARGSORU VECHI CUI: 2845230 CREATIVE PEOPLE SRL CUI: 39329387 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 295,000 147,500 270,000
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA A MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 15531230 PROSOFT SRL CUI: 5831590 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 294,800 98,267 224,000
SERVICIUL DE TELECOMUNICATII SPECIALE CUI: 4267230 ETA2U SRL CUI: 1801821 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 293,489 146,745 204,616
SECTORUL 5 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4433953 OPTIMATECH SYSTEMS SRL CUI: 44760121 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 292,950 97,650 147,600
APA SERVICE SA CUI: 22131317 PRODINF SOFTWARE SRL CUI: 22688033 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 290,310 145,155 266,880
SPITALUL DE PSIHIATRIE SI PENTRU MASURI DE SIGURANTA JEBEL CUI: 5189300 LUMRO INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 26178630 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 2 290,000 145,000 270,000
COMUNA OTELENI CUI: 4541009 MMB-PLUS EXPERT SRL CUI: 45859647 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 290,000 145,000 240,000
ORASUL BORSEC CUI: 4245380 CONCENTUS CONSULT SRL CUI: 19597679 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 4 290,000 72,500 250,000
COMUNA GUSOENI CUI: 2573845 GOODWILL CONSULTING GWC SRL CUI: 23580128 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 290,000 72,500 150,000
ORAS BAIA SPRIE CUI: 3694918 EUROGECON SRL CUI: 29529019 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 290,000 145,000 145,000
MUNICIPIUL LUPENI CUI: 4375046 SYNESIS PARTNERS SRL CUI: 33706968 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 286,650 95,550 110,000
UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE VICTOR BABES TIMISOARA CUI: 4269215 LUXON CONSULTING SRL CUI: 24741834 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 4 285,784 71,446 169,084
ORAS BUFTEA CUI: 4434029 ARTRA CONSULTANCY SRL CUI: 37746299 722 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 3 285,600 95,200 120,300
COMUNA GORBANESTI CUI: 3373527 PROTEUS NORD CONSULTING SRL CUI: 33958035 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 285,000 142,500 195,000
COMUNA CRISTIAN CUI: 4728369 NOA MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 34781992 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 284,000 142,000 145,000
COMUNA BERCHISESTI CUI: 17527456 VODAFONE ROMANIA SA CUI: 8971726 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 283,615 141,808 268,685
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA CUI: 4288306 BLADE SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 24770066 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2026 3 283,614 94,538 159,120
COMUNA IARA CUI: 4546952 CIVITAS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 24744300 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 7 281,300 40,186 80,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DR CI PARHON IASI CUI: 4540895 INFO WORLD SRL CUI: 13373052 722 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 3 281,250 93,750 197,550

201-225 of 463 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