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Medium risk #08 Year-end

Year-end spending

Authorities that spend far more in the last three weeks of December than the rest of the country.

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.

  1. Direct purchases are taken by finalisation date.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Spending from 10–31 December is divided by the yearly total: that is the authority's share.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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

Contracting authority Year Total spend in the year Spend 10-31 December Purchases in the window December share Vs. national Above normal
UNITATEA MILITARA 01512 CUI: 4241117 2020 1,728,334 935,900 38 54.2% 6.4× 788,826
COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC SA CUI: 1708600 2023 4,771,102 983,052 50 20.6% 5.0× 785,796
SPITAL ORASENESC IOAN LASCAR CUI: 4353056 2022 3,518,608 1,119,352 85 31.8% 3.4× 784,907
UNITATEA MILITARA 0418 BUCURESTI CUI: 4204267 2022 3,699,402 1,135,182 35 30.7% 3.2× 783,552
MUZEUL NATIONAL AL SATULUI DIMITRIE GUSTI CUI: 4754848 2019 1,572,164 902,955 429 57.4% 7.6× 783,533
STATIUNEA DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU CULTURA PLANTELOR PE NISIPURI DABULENI CUI: 2281069 2022 2,458,305 1,016,942 44 41.4% 4.4× 783,279
COMUNA SECUSIGIU CUI: 3519577 2024 3,164,482 952,745 6 30.1% 5.6× 782,769
JUDETUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244512 2024 7,038,070 1,160,802 39 16.5% 3.1× 782,761
MUNICIPIUL BRAILA CUI: 4205670 2025 5,417,376 1,116,741 18 20.6% 3.3× 782,270
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ANTON PANN CUI: 11269080 2021 1,116,152 884,172 13 79.2% 8.6× 780,766
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ELENA FARAGO CRAIOVA CUI: 17105796 2023 1,217,912 829,746 8 68.1% 16.5× 779,393
COMUNA SANTAMARIA-ORLEA CUI: 5453800 2019 2,421,480 963,300 42 39.8% 5.2× 779,363
COMUNA STRAJA CUI: 4441360 2022 3,360,787 1,097,065 28 32.6% 3.4× 777,621
COMUNA DODESTI CUI: 16368328 2022 1,715,668 939,797 7 54.8% 5.8× 776,722
COMUNA LELEASCA CUI: 5139825 2024 2,767,936 925,093 6 33.4% 6.2× 776,417
COMUNA MOLDOVENESTI CUI: 4426239 2021 3,262,229 1,078,114 26 33.1% 3.6× 775,884
COMUNA CEAHLAU CUI: 2614155 2022 2,720,933 1,032,371 13 37.9% 4.0× 773,745
COMUNA CRICIOVA CUI: 4357937 2025 4,514,761 1,051,596 8 23.3% 3.8× 772,853
COMUNA CARPINET CUI: 5003580 2022 2,167,176 978,383 6 45.2% 4.8× 772,392
PARCHETUL DE PE LINGA INALTA CURTE DE CASATIE SI JUSTITIE CUI: 4364748 2024 4,961,808 1,038,539 23 20.9% 3.9× 772,021
COMPLEXUL MULTIFUNCTIONAL SFANDREI CUI: 39558429 2023 3,003,123 896,175 12 29.8% 7.2× 772,014
COMUNA MATASARI CUI: 4448385 2024 3,023,541 931,367 7 30.8% 5.7× 768,961
COMPANIA MUNICIPALA CIMITIRE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 38790403 2018 1,026,882 848,145 18 82.6% 10.5× 767,371
COMUNA FAURESTI CUI: 2541738 2025 2,647,900 929,921 8 35.1% 5.7× 766,438
COMUNA NISTORESTI CUI: 4447274 2022 1,627,483 919,062 11 56.5% 5.9× 764,369

201-225 of 3152 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
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.
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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