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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

18

Cumulative flagged value

4.19 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

4.4

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
COMUNA ALBESTI CUI: 4359431 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 11 388,875 35,352 134,375 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA TATARANI CUI: 4627321 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2024 6 335,635 55,939 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA FERESTI CUI: 16476761 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 308,363 102,788 264,363 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA MUNTENII DE SUS CUI: 16476770 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 2 307,838 153,919 268,838 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA ALBESTI CUI: 4359431 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2022 10.09–31.12 4 301,774 75,444 134,274 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA ALBESTI CUI: 4359431 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 8 296,863 37,108 264,363 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA OLTENESTI CUI: 3337737 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 3 276,363 92,121 264,363 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA FERESTI CUI: 16476761 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 5 270,750 54,150 134,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA GARCENI CUI: 4359652 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 5 217,812 43,562 133,812 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA TATARANI CUI: 4627321 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 209,274 104,637 134,274 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA ALBESTI CUI: 4359431 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 182,274 60,758 134,274 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DIMITRIE CANTEMIR CUI: 3394295 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 4 173,965 43,491 70,965 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA TATARANI CUI: 4627321 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 6 163,774 27,296 134,274 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DIMITRIE CANTEMIR CUI: 3394295 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 3 160,680 53,560 82,010 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA GARCENI CUI: 4359652 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 159,240 53,080 124,740 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA MUNTENII DE SUS CUI: 16476770 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 5 151,774 30,355 134,274 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA IVANESTI CUI: 4446627 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 5 146,129 29,226 134,379 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA OLTENESTI CUI: 3337737 MEGABIZ SRL CUI: 23013824 713 servicii ceiling 132,519 2018 01.01–03.06 2 136,000 68,000 130,000 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