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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

4.49 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

2.7

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 NUFARU CUI: 4508720 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 393,000 131,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CALARASI CUI: 3373454 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 8 321,282 40,160 100,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CASTELU CUI: 4515735 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 2 315,000 157,500 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA LIPNITA CUI: 4896001 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 3 310,000 103,333 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SPULBER CUI: 17750074 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 270,120 2023 3 281,000 93,667 121,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA DUMBRAVENI CUI: 6398771 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 713 servicii ceiling 270,120 2025 2 280,000 140,000 265,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA LAZA CUI: 3337672 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 3 275,000 91,667 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA RUGINESTI CUI: 4297746 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 2 270,000 135,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA SPULBER CUI: 17750074 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 258,000 129,000 130,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA VALEA NUCARILOR CUI: 4508789 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 245,000 122,500 125,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA PARGARESTI CUI: 4277862 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 240,000 120,000 120,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CALARASI CUI: 3373454 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 713 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 224,000 112,000 134,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA PAUNESTI CUI: 4560213 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 215,000 107,500 125,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CIOCARLIA CUI: 4514608 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 714 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 210,000 105,000 135,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CIOCARLIA CUI: 4514608 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2021 2 178,000 89,000 90,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA PUFESTI CUI: 4350459 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 794 servicii ceiling 135,060 2019 3 166,336 55,445 87,790 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA PESTERA CUI: 4515360 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 793 servicii ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 3 158,000 52,667 63,000 See the direct purchases behind this group
COMUNA CISLAU CUI: 2808976 TQM MANAGEMENT SRL CUI: 28397610 712 servicii ceiling 135,060 2020 2 147,580 73,790 87,580 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