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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

24

Cumulative flagged value

28.16 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

3.5

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 SICULA CUI: 3519046 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,797,146 898,573 899,641
COMUNA SECUSIGIU CUI: 3519577 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 2 1,796,222 898,111 898,227
COMUNA VLADIMIRESCU CUI: 3519615 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 3 1,706,968 568,989 890,674
COMUNA HALMAGEL CUI: 3520318 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,692,182 564,061 796,612
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 5 1,682,701 336,540 815,650
COMUNA FRUMUSENI CUI: 16341462 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 2 1,676,917 838,459 898,071
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 5 1,517,408 303,482 893,563
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 7 1,476,034 210,862 895,737
COMUNA SAVIRSIN CUI: 3519178 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 3 1,329,377 443,126 447,091
COMUNA VLADIMIRESCU CUI: 3519615 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2022 10.09–31.12 4 1,212,786 303,197 793,081
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 6 1,209,286 201,548 894,922
COMUNA SAVIRSIN CUI: 3519178 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 1,201,549 400,516 449,996
COMUNA COVASANT CUI: 3520253 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 5 1,022,487 204,497 897,506
COMUNA VLADIMIRESCU CUI: 3519615 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 5 977,844 195,569 319,965
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 6 905,685 150,948 432,791
COMUNA IGNESTI CUI: 3520156 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 4 875,000 218,750 438,750
COMUNA IGNESTI CUI: 3520156 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 3 864,378 288,126 419,983
ORAS INEU CUI: 3519020 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 842,448 421,224 427,560
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2020 2 829,878 414,939 414,990
ORAS SANTANA CUI: 3520121 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2019 3 797,637 265,879 361,677
COMUNA HASMAS CUI: 3520210 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 764,600 382,300 448,597
COMUNA TARNOVA CUI: 3518890 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2018 04.06–31.12 3 700,530 233,510 422,840
COMUNA VLADIMIRESCU CUI: 3519615 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 643,160 321,580 449,960
COMUNA PETRIS CUI: 3519160 PIATRA BALAST IMPEX SRL CUI: 23024181 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 639,897 319,949 446,397

1-24 of 24 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