Direct purchases whose value stops just below the legal ceiling. Free prices do not bunch under a limit; when many values stop exactly there, the amount was chosen for the ceiling rather than for the need. Computed on direct purchases only.
Purchases at the ceiling
10
Total value
1.30 Mn.
Closest to the ceiling
96.25%
Flagged purchases by year of finalisation
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 271 are added into a single tile.
Purchases by closeness to the ceiling
How it is computed
Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.
- Finalised direct purchases with a supplier (CUI) and a value are kept.
- The ceiling is the one in force on the day of publication, for the contract type: until September 2022 it was half of today's.
- The value is divided by the ceiling and expressed as a percentage.
- The purchase is flagged when the percentage is between 95% and 100%.
- Purchases above the ceiling are not counted: there a tender was mandatory anyway.
- Each purchase is judged on its own; nothing is added together.
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.
- Flagged band: 95% – 100% of the applicable ceiling
Direct purchases only, each one on its own. Several small purchases to one supplier are indicator #01, slicing.
A value close to the ceiling is not in itself a breach: it can come from an honest estimate. The signal is repetition: the more of one authority's purchases stop just below the ceiling, the less chance explains it.
- SEAP number
- The purchase's SEAP number, linked to its record on e-licitatie.ro.
- Contracting authority
- The authority that made the purchase and set its value.
- Supplier
- The company that received the purchase.
- Contract type
- Supply, services or works. The type and the date set the applicable ceiling.
- CPV code
- The CPV code: what was bought. Hover it for the description.
- Finalisation date
- The date of finalisation. The table is ordered by it by default, newest first.
- Value
- The value awarded, compared with the ceiling.
- Share of the ceiling
- The value as a percentage of the applicable ceiling. 100% means exactly the ceiling.
- Purchase description
- What was bought, as reported, on the row under the purchase.
- Purchases
- Opens the direct purchases of the same authority–supplier pair, same CPV code and year.
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/praguri/api/v1/red-flags/overview/years/api/v1/red-flags/praguri/cpv-spend/api/v1/red-flags/praguri/distribution