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.
ARCO DE SIERRA MANUAL FIJO unidad
Centro Departamental de Rocha · MONACO PLUS S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio unitario del arco de sierra es significativamente superior al rango estadístico y no hay justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 1.148Usual range$ 102 – 759DESVIO EN CAÑO DE TERMOFUSION unidad
Centro Departamental de Rocha · MONACO PLUS S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio unitario pagado por el desvío en caño de termofusión es significativamente superior al rango habitual sin justificación aparente.
Paid$ 230Usual range$ 13 – 74