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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

26

Cumulative flagged value

16.86 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

2.9

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 BUCSANI CUI: 4344490 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2023 3 1,604,634 534,878 647,142
COMUNA BERCENI CUI: 2845338 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 5 1,394,714 278,943 426,996
ORAS VALENII DE MUNTE CUI: 2842870 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 2 1,374,460 687,230 889,179
COMUNA PIELESTI CUI: 4553992 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2025 6 1,279,013 213,169 295,200
COMUNA BACIU CUI: 4378751 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2026 3 1,146,442 382,147 805,159
COMUNA SIRNA CUI: 2845443 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 968,274 484,137 869,422
ORAS CHITILA CUI: 4420848 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 3 960,089 320,030 557,724
ORAS VALENII DE MUNTE CUI: 2842870 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 900,400 2024 2 927,417 463,709 893,846
COMUNA DUMBRAVA CUI: 2843329 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 3 899,374 299,791 449,628
COMUNA BERCENI CUI: 2845338 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 452 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 756,035 378,018 441,865
COMUNA MEREI CUI: 3662541 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 3 653,432 217,811 424,992
COMUNA VALEA LUPULUI CUI: 16384625 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 607,939 303,970 418,492
COMUNA GIURGENI CUI: 4427951 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 588,083 294,042 294,081
COMUNA BERCENI CUI: 2845338 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2021 2 516,952 258,476 447,979
COMUNA BUCSANI CUI: 4344490 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 451 lucrari ceiling 450,200 2022 01.01–09.09 2 480,000 240,000 314,000
MUNICIPIU RM VALCEA CUI: 2540813 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 446 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 3 417,360 139,120 191,200
ORASUL CALAN CUI: 5742434 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 433 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 2 375,888 187,944 189,035
MUNICIPIUL SACELE CUI: 4317649 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 349 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 4 333,800 83,450 269,400
MUNICIPIU RM VALCEA CUI: 2540813 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 446 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 2 267,920 133,960 134,000
ORASUL HIRLAU CUI: 4541190 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 433 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 2 263,755 131,878 134,763
MUNICIPIUL ROMAN CUI: 2613583 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 446 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 208,760 69,587 129,000
MUNICIPIUL CARACAL CUI: 4395175 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 374 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 2 187,296 93,648 126,046
MUNICIPIU RM VALCEA CUI: 2540813 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 446 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 175,460 58,487 66,960
COMUNA VALEA LUPULUI CUI: 16384625 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 349 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 4 170,132 42,533 126,000
COMUNA LEORDENI CUI: 4971979 LAVITEX PROD SRL CUI: 7152561 391 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2019 2 164,176 82,088 83,824

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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