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.
CUBIERTO DESCARTABLE unidad
Centro Departamental de Flores · VIMAX S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio unitario pagado por cubiertos descartables es superior al rango estadístico habitual sin justificación aparente.
Paid$ 1Usual range$ 0 – 1APOSITO OCULAR HIPOALERGENICO PARA NIÑO unidad
Centro Departamental de Flores · UNION DISPROFARMA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
No apparent explanationUnexplained95%
El precio pagado por apósitos oculares para niño es significativamente superior al rango estadístico habitual, sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 350Usual range$ 8 – 53