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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
SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA JUDETEAN CUI: 7595291 2022 1,317,443 603,974 110 45.8% 4.8× 478,750
COMUNA STANCUTA CUI: 4874771 2021 2,121,394 675,072 11 31.8% 3.4× 478,535
COMUNA OINACU CUI: 5798583 2020 2,086,072 655,298 18 31.4% 3.7× 477,782
MUNICIPIUL SEBES CUI: 4331201 2025 2,664,706 640,925 13 24.1% 3.9× 476,405
COMPLEXUL REZIDENTIAL DE SERVICII SOCIALE BARBARA STAMM PASTRAVENI CUI: 2614376 2024 2,710,824 621,981 37 22.9% 4.3× 476,372
COMUNA NOCRICH CUI: 5999013 2024 2,366,840 603,279 6 25.5% 4.8× 476,147
APA SERV SA CUI: 22224874 2023 2,738,439 589,280 20 21.5% 5.2× 476,063
MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMANIEI CUI: 4192952 2025 3,055,559 664,680 41 21.8% 3.5× 476,028
SERVICIUL PUBLIC LOCAL DE TERMOFICARE APA SI CANALIZARE - GHEORGHENI CUI: 36958579 2021 1,866,743 648,501 17 34.7% 3.8× 475,556
COMUNA BANEASA CUI: 5182140 2019 2,677,721 678,691 14 25.4% 3.3× 475,290
MUNICIPIUL PETROSANI CUI: 4468943 2024 2,666,329 617,825 28 23.2% 4.3× 474,606
COMUNA ASAU CUI: 4277943 2020 1,924,160 637,003 25 33.1% 3.9× 473,265
SPORT CLUB MUNICIPAL GLORIA BUZAU CUI: 38078481 2022 1,376,461 603,999 39 43.9% 4.6× 473,166
COMUNA MAICANESTI CUI: 4297770 2020 1,015,417 557,304 21 54.9% 6.5× 470,896
COMUNA CUDALBI CUI: 3655919 2020 2,316,540 667,603 23 28.8% 3.4× 470,475
COMUNA COBADIN CUI: 4515476 2025 2,064,970 597,877 29 29.0% 4.7× 470,385
AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL SIBIU RA CUI: 2577146 2021 1,420,113 601,060 41 42.3% 4.6× 469,493
COMUNA SACOSU TURCESC CUI: 5481576 2023 4,787,670 667,177 8 13.9% 3.4× 469,237
COMUNA 23 AUGUST CUI: 4618153 2022 1,592,313 620,449 21 39.0% 4.1× 469,099
COMUNA MARCULESTI CUI: 17541604 2019 780,805 527,475 6 67.6% 8.9× 468,165
COMUNA AMARASTI CUI: 2573888 2025 2,276,547 608,681 8 26.7% 4.3× 468,126
LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC DIMITRIE FILISANU FILIASI CUI: 5047047 2023 1,383,453 524,819 16 37.9% 9.2× 467,622
SPITALUL CLINIC CF CRAIOVA CUI: 4332169 2023 1,460,661 527,730 16 36.1% 8.7× 467,341
COMUNA UNGURENI CUI: 3571583 2024 2,292,257 590,114 11 25.7% 4.8× 466,988
COMUNA CA ROSETTI CUI: 4793910 2022 1,606,935 619,568 6 38.6% 4.1× 466,828

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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.
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

Open data and API