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 EPURENI CUI: 3394112	2020	2,839,845	931,125	18	32.8%	3.9×	689,466	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA MANASTIREA CASIN CUI: 4352980	2025	4,299,897	953,177	16	22.2%	3.6×	687,699	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA LUNA CUI: 4546960	2024	4,511,327	929,798	7	20.6%	3.8×	687,477	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BOGDANESTI CUI: 4446686	2022	2,723,172	945,844	6	34.7%	3.7×	687,005	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SPITALUL ORASENESC HIRLAU CUI: 4701258	2024	2,947,657	844,150	34	28.6%	5.3×	685,820	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA TITU MAIORESCU CUI: 20769255	2022	1,823,330	857,225	23	47.0%	5.0×	683,917	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
UNITATEA MILITARA NR01836 CUI: 27036839	2023	5,128,241	895,184	13	17.5%	4.2×	683,163	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SPITALUL ORASENESC VALENI DE MUNTE CUI: 2844200	2018	3,735,089 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	975,669	72	26.1%	3.3×	681,867	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE IMPOZITE SI TAXE LOCALE SECTOR 6 CUI: 12380248	2025	4,324,581	948,326	22	21.9%	3.6×	681,324	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BORS CUI: 4390526	2019	2,940,986	903,885	21	30.7%	4.1×	680,486	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
ORAS VANJU-MARE CUI: 7536970	2022	3,368,756	999,973	6	29.7%	3.1×	679,771	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA VALEA MARULUI CUI: 3655900	2020	1,476,588	805,405	6	54.6%	6.4×	679,753	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA COTUSCA CUI: 3372157	2021	3,322,769	987,327	15	29.7%	3.2×	679,489	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA MORAVITA CUI: 4358193	2022	3,233,523	986,398	14	30.5%	3.2×	679,050	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
UNITATEA MILITARA 02210 BUCURESTI CUI: 4193176	2021	2,422,399	901,426	81	37.2%	4.0×	677,003	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BUZOESTI CUI: 4318288	2024	4,030,205	892,304	11	22.1%	4.1×	675,826	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMITETUL OLIMPIC SI SPORTIV ROMAN CUI: 13746143	2018	2,365,183 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	861,857	36	36.4%	4.6×	675,812	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
UNITATEA MILITARA NR01836 CUI: 27036839	2021	3,350,357	985,729	44	29.4%	3.2×	675,335	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA COSTEIU CUI: 4357953	2019	4,090,252	985,390	10	24.1%	3.2×	674,692	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BUNTESTI CUI: 4558698	2025	3,649,082	898,677	5	24.6%	4.0×	673,381	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
MUZEUL NATIONAL AL SATULUI DIMITRIE GUSTI CUI: 4754848	2021	2,274,116	881,914	267	38.8%	4.2×	671,228	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA GIOSENI CUI: 17560568	2024	2,983,124	831,417	8	27.9%	5.2×	671,182	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA HARAU CUI: 4374040	2022	2,492,250	907,823	7	36.4%	3.8×	670,934	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA CORCOVA CUI: 4818631	2020	1,536,476	801,633	16	52.2%	6.1×	670,885	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA TORMAC CUI: 4483790	2019	1,727,363	801,414	7	46.4%	6.1×	670,203	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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