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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

336

Cumulative flagged value

139.36 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

126.7

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

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
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 530 5,557,208 10,485 174,874
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 220 2,714,081 12,337 60,568
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 233 1,836,306 7,881 64,130
GRAL MEDICAL SRL CUI: 15413404 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 55 1,696,287 30,842 188,876
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 273 1,650,117 6,044 137,922
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4245259 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 133 1,475,819 11,096 49,979
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 81 1,288,384 15,906 49,647
SPITALUL CLINIC DE COPII DRVGOMOIU CUI: 4283759 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 114 1,255,655 11,015 150,940
SPITALUL CLINIC DE NEFROLOGIE DR CAROL DAVILA CUI: 4382469 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 309 1,245,197 4,030 88,183
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 65 1,237,640 19,041 49,656
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4245259 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 125 1,181,864 9,455 46,056
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA PITESTI CUI: 4122205 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 129 1,160,329 8,995 72,231
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 72 1,133,946 15,749 49,680
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BACAU CUI: 4278728 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 1179 1,065,967 904 73,359
INSTITUTUL CLINIC FUNDENI CUI: 4204003 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 70 1,057,687 15,110 49,699
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII BRASOV CUI: 4317738 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 42 1,020,835 24,306 137,531
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4245259 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 78 1,019,991 13,077 99,639
SPITAL MUNICIPAL DE URGENTA PASCANI CUI: 4701371 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 547 1,007,036 1,841 18,267
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PROF DR NICOLAE OBLU IASI CUI: 4540810 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 220 976,245 4,437 49,723
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 49 929,508 18,970 49,979
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4245259 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 82 867,951 10,585 67,990
SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SF SPIRIDON IASI CUI: 4701312 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 28 847,699 30,275 165,524
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SFANTUL IERARH DRLUCA ONESTI CUI: 4278825 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2023 397 814,938 2,053 41,474
SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BACAU CUI: 4278728 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 421 793,247 1,884 34,976
SANADOR SRL CUI: 12530000 FARMEXIM SA CUI: 335278 336 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 22 789,770 35,899 253,379

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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.
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