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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

13

Cumulative flagged value

3.56 Mn.

Average direct purchases per group

17.1

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 BOLI INFECTIOASE SI TROPICALE DRVICTOR BABES CUI: 4266049 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 24 677,682 28,237 180,000
SPITALUL CLINIC FILANTROPIA CUI: 4532388 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 11 455,235 41,385 108,000
SPITALUL CLINIC DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SI TROPICALE DRVICTOR BABES CUI: 4266049 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 184 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2026 10 381,690 38,169 68,800
SPITALUL CLINIC DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SI TROPICALE DRVICTOR BABES CUI: 4266049 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2025 34 341,657 10,049 24,727
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU CUI: 4284134 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 181 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 46 332,254 7,223 110,000
SPITALUL CLINIC FILANTROPIA CUI: 4532388 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 270,120 2024 13 296,764 22,828 113,000
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 7 199,090 28,441 110,500
SPITALUL CLINIC PROFDRTHEODOR BURGHELE CUI: 4283538 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2018 04.06–31.12 14 166,525 11,895 59,940
SPITALUL CLINIC SFANTA MARIA CUI: 4382558 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 4 149,090 37,273 59,630
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL PENTRU SANATATEA MAMEI SI COPILULUI ALESSANDRESCU-RUSESCU BUCURESTI CUI: 4266308 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 184 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 6 141,470 23,578 65,010
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA SFPANTELIMON CUI: 4203881 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 392 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2021 40 140,535 3,513 18,200
SPITALUL CLINIC FILANTROPIA CUI: 4532388 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2022 01.01–09.09 10 138,348 13,835 48,500
SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA CUI: 4505332 DINA MED IMPEX SRL CUI: 21249773 331 furnizare ceiling 135,060 2020 3 137,070 45,690 76,500

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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