Year-end spending — PeBaniiNostri.ro

Every authority buys in December, and the share of those three weeks varies from year to year: 9.5% of the money in 2022, 4.1% in 2023. So the indicator compares each authority with the national average for the same year: it is flagged when it puts at least three times as much into the window. The table is ordered by the amount spent above normal.

Flagged cases

3,152

Spending above normal

1.06 Bn.

Average vs. national

5.1×

Flagged authorities by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018.

The data does not cover the whole window in 2023, so that year figures are a floor. For 2018, the first year of the dataset, the annual total is grossed up to a full year.

What the flagged windows were spent on

The 12 largest CPV groups by value; the other 271 are added into a single tile. The amount is what was spent in the flagged windows, not the amount above normal, which cannot be split by code.

National share of the 10-31 December window, by year

How it is computed

Computed on every direct purchase from 2018 to today.

Direct purchases are taken by finalisation date.
They are grouped by authority and year. A year counts only if the data covers all of its December, so the current year is left out.
The first year in the data starts in April, so its total is estimated for a full year from the nearby complete years. The correction makes the total larger, so it can only remove a case, never create one.
Spending from 10–31 December is divided by the yearly total: that is the authority's share.
The same share is computed for the whole country in the same year. It varies a lot (9.5% in 2022, 4.1% in 2023), which is why no fixed threshold is used.
The authority's share is divided by the national one. The amount above normal is the window spending minus what the authority would have spent at the national share.
Authority-years at least 3 times the national share are flagged, with at least 5 purchases in the window and at least 100,000 RON above normal, among those that spent over 200,000 RON in the year.

Thresholds

Window: 10–31 December, by the direct purchase's finalisation date
Minimum multiple of the national share: 3×
Minimum spending above normal: 100,000 RON
Minimum number of purchases in the window: 5
Minimum yearly direct-purchase budget: 200,000 RON

Direct purchases only. Tenders are left out: they are prepared months ahead, so a December signature is not a last-minute decision. Actual payments are not in the data.

Year-end spending has a legitimate side: the budget closes on 31 December and unspent money is lost. The indicator does not say a purchase is unlawful, only that its timing departs from the national pattern. A year in which everyone spent late produces no flags.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Year-end spending
Contracting authority	Year	Total spend in the year	Spend 10-31 December	Purchases in the window	December share	Vs. national	Above normal	Purchases
COMUNA GRECI CUI: 4793960	2024	3,371,926	817,104	12	24.2%	4.5×	635,985	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA RADOVANU CUI: 3796845	2020	1,782,459	787,218	6	44.2%	5.2×	635,538	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA PIELESTI CUI: 4553992	2021	1,926,152	813,481	13	42.2%	4.6×	635,032	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA LIMANU CUI: 4671688	2020	2,455,877	843,315	23	34.3%	4.0×	634,330	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
AEROPORTUL STEFAN CEL MARE SUCEAVA RA CUI: 713454	2021	2,179,357	835,842	107	38.4%	4.1×	633,935	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA CILIBIA CUI: 3724423	2025	4,332,675	901,218	8	20.8%	3.4×	633,717	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA VICOVU DE JOS CUI: 4327090	2025	3,480,106	847,437	5	24.4%	3.9×	632,574	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA CEANU MARE CUI: 5227935	2018	1,536,720 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	751,952	16	48.9%	6.2×	631,074	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
ORAS BECHET CUI: 4941390	2022	1,649,635	787,162	18	47.7%	5.0×	630,364	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA RAZVAD CUI: 4344643	2018	3,233,205 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	884,430	17	27.4%	3.5×	630,106	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA SLOBOZIA-CONACHI CUI: 3127026	2024	4,802,858	887,695	10	18.5%	3.4×	629,715	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SPITAL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA MIERCUREA CIUC CUI: 4245305	2024	4,925,629	894,194	60	18.2%	3.4×	629,620	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA MOGOSESTI CUI: 4540437	2025	3,152,195	822,514	11	26.1%	4.2×	627,896	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SERVICIUL PUBLIC DE INTERES LOCAL ADMINISTRATIA PATRIMONIULUI LOCAL CUI: 14401495	2025	3,551,042	846,213	16	23.8%	3.9×	626,970	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA TARNOVA CUI: 3227262	2021	935,226	713,239	9	76.3%	8.2×	626,595	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA ABRAM CUI: 4935178	2020	2,607,464	846,774	17	32.5%	3.8×	624,889	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR JUDETEAN CLUJ CUI: 4485669	2024	1,457,916	702,727	16	48.2%	9.0×	624,417	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR JUDETEAN SUCEAVA CUI: 4244865	2023	1,490,312	685,053	22	46.0%	11.1×	623,438	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE NATURALA GRIGORE ANTIPA CUI: 29446657	2020	2,654,667	849,290	101	32.0%	3.8×	623,389	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BILBOR CUI: 4246092	2025	3,318,400	828,234	16	25.0%	4.0×	623,354	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA MIHAILENI CUI: 4246254	2020	1,848,418	780,335	42	42.2%	5.0×	623,042	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA POROSCHIA CUI: 4469027	2019	1,422,991	730,533	9	51.3%	6.8×	622,442	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE NATURALA GRIGORE ANTIPA CUI: 29446657	2025	4,573,429	903,953	68	19.8%	3.2×	621,587	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MARAMURES RA CUI: 2944544	2018	2,287,347 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	801,390	7	35.0%	4.5×	621,467	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SERVICIUL PUBLIC JUDETEAN DE DRUMURI BACAU CUI: 14503401	2022	2,650,860	872,486	10	32.9%	3.5×	620,521	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December

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Contracting authority: The authority that spent. One row is one authority in one year.
Year: The year the purchases were finalised.
Total spend in the year: Everything the authority spent through direct purchases that year. For the first year in the data it is estimated for a full year.
Spend 10-31 December: How much of that money was spent between 10 and 31 December.
Purchases in the window: How many direct purchases were finalised in the window. Below five nothing is flagged: it may be a single large purchase.
December share: Window spending as a percentage of the whole year. Read it with the next column, because the national average changes each year.
Vs. national: How many times the authority's share exceeds the national one in the same year. 1× means the same as the country; flagged from 3×.
Above normal: Window spending minus what the authority would have spent at the national share. The table is ordered by this column.
Purchases: Opens the authority's direct purchases from that window.

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/red-flags/sindromul-decembrie
/api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
/api/v1/red-flags/sindromul-decembrie/distribution
/api/v1/red-flags/sindromul-decembrie/cpv-spend

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