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
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI HARGHITA CUI: 9798918	2022	1,686,075	613,385	236	36.4%	3.8×	453,123	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA GALA GALACTION MANGALIA CUI: 29129705	2023	877,897	488,995	25	55.7%	13.5×	452,699	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA GHEORGHE DOJA CUI: 4436860	2024	946,265	503,481	5	53.2%	9.9×	452,654	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
MUZEUL NATIONAL AL TARANULUI ROMAN CUI: 4192480	2020	860,365	525,714	54	61.1%	7.2×	452,500	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BISTRET CUI: 4553895	2024	3,430,137	636,579	5	18.6%	3.5×	452,333	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
ORAS BABENI CUI: 2541177	2019	2,174,895	617,455	13	28.4%	3.7×	452,249	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
ORASUL BOCSA CUI: 3227939	2024	3,156,306	621,464	8	19.7%	3.7×	451,927	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE NEUROLOGIE SI BOLI NEUROVASCULARE CUI: 7548010	2023	4,899,377	653,575	112	13.3%	3.2×	451,016	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA PETRE ISPIRESCU CUI: 20745787	2021	731,883	518,523	48	70.9%	7.7×	450,718	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BOGDANESTI CUI: 4326817	2019	1,347,153	552,903	12	41.0%	5.4×	450,573	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BIERTAN CUI: 4240944	2018	1,959,230 The first year in the data starts in April, so its yearly total is estimated for a full year.	604,597	15	30.9%	3.9×	450,484	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
LICEUL ORTODOX EPISCOP ROMAN CIOROGARIU MUNICIPIUL ORADEA CUI: 22622667	2021	688,459	514,170	23	74.7%	8.1×	450,388	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
CSIKI TRANS SRL CUI: 26416163	2025	1,652,691	551,227	9	33.4%	5.4×	449,189	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA 23 AUGUST CUI: 4618153	2020	1,301,358	559,895	19	43.0%	5.1×	449,155	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA SEACA CUI: 4568632	2021	1,337,953	572,498	8	42.8%	4.6×	448,543	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA TARSOLT CUI: 3896909	2021	2,082,846	641,420	7	30.8%	3.3×	448,454	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
UNITATEA MILITARA 02036 CUI: 14783824	2022	2,045,147	642,703	10	31.4%	3.3×	448,311	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA INDEPENDENTA CUI: 3966370	2020	1,761,356	597,968	10	34.0%	4.0×	448,084	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA COROD CUI: 4393166	2020	1,990,623	617,154	16	31.0%	3.6×	447,760	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA PAULESTI CUI: 15541160	2022	970,141	539,636	16	55.6%	5.9×	447,424	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA BIRCHIS CUI: 3519127	2024	1,902,571	549,098	5	28.9%	5.4×	446,904	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA SINCA NOUA CUI: 14670850	2025	2,722,256	614,658	6	22.6%	3.7×	446,585	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
AGENTIA PENTRU DEZVOLTARE REGIONALA BUCURESTI - ILFOV CUI: 11869530	2025	1,836,968	559,787	16	30.5%	4.9×	446,372	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
COMUNA PUNGESTI CUI: 4359393	2020	1,220,257	548,961	7	45.0%	5.3×	445,122	See the direct purchases from 10–31 December
TEATRUL NATIONAL DE OPERETA SI MUSICAL ION DACIAN CUI: 4340099	2021	1,312,473	566,023	72	43.1%	4.7×	444,429	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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