Direct purchases at the legal ceiling

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

Total value

1.86 Mn.

Closest to the ceiling

99.96%

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

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.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Direct purchases at the legal ceiling
SEAP number	Contracting authority	Supplier	Contract type	CPV code	Finalisation date	Value	Share of the ceiling	Purchases
DA39892391	AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	25.02.2026	270,000	99.96%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: vta 52-65
DA37847272	APA SERV VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 7392416	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	07.04.2025	264,000	97.73%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: vta 52-65
DA37796393	APA SERV VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 7392416	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24960000-1	01.04.2025	257,400	95.29%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: vta biosolit 6124
DA37306917	AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	16.01.2025	270,000	99.96%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: polihidroxiclorura de aluminiu
DA34844275	AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	16.01.2024	269,875	99.91%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: coagulant sachtoklar p/vta 52-65
DA30950211	COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	05.07.2022	132,000	97.73%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: sachtoklar p/vta 52-65
DA29092212	COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24311520-8	25.10.2021	129,776	96.09%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: hidroxid de sodiu
DA27220979	COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	12.01.2021	132,480	98.09%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: sachtoklar p/vta 52-65
DA25080402	COMPANIA DE UTILITATI PUBLICE DUNAREA BRAILA SA CUI: 7179966	PAC WATER SRL CUI: 12364790	furnizare	24312123-2	19.02.2020	131,950	97.70%	See the direct purchases of the same pair, same CPV code and year
Purchase description: sachtoklar p/vta 52-65

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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

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