Uruguay's public procurement
Price flags
Contracts where the unit price departs sharply from what the state usually pays for the same item. A flag is not an accusation: it marks something worth a look.
How it is calculated
For each combination of item, currency and unit of measure, a price baseline is built from the last 36 months. Each award's unit price is then scored against that baseline using a robust measure in log space: it uses the median rather than the mean, so a huge contract cannot mask its own anomaly.
At least 10 comparable items are needed to score a price, and 30 to assign the highest severities.
There are legitimate explanations: urgent purchases, different specifications under the same catalogue code, or items misclassified at the source.
LABETALOL (INYECTABLE) ampolla
Banco de Seguros del Estado · LABORATORIOS CELSIUS S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained95%
El precio unitario de LABETALOL (INYECTABLE) es significativamente superior al rango estadístico sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 312Usual range$ 227 – 244ABRILLANTADOR CON SILICONA unidad
Banco de Seguros del Estado · SONIBEL SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio unitario pagado por el abrillantador con silicona supera significativamente el rango estadístico habitual sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 834Usual range$ 215 – 821