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.
PROTESIS TIPO THOMPSON CUELLO ESTANDAR TALLO CURVO unidad
Dirección General de la Salud · FONDO NACIONAL DE RECURSOS
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio pagado por la prótesis Thompson es significativamente superior al rango estadístico sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 37.054Usual range$ 5.798 – 11.372OCLUSOR VASCULAR PERIFERICO unidad
Dirección General de la Salud · ENDOVASCULAR MEDICAL SUPPLIERS S.A.
No apparent explanationUnexplained100%
El precio unitario pagado por el oclusor vascular periférico excede significativamente el rango estadístico habitual sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 240.000Usual range$ 110.401 – 216.900EMBOLIZACION ARTERIAL SELECTIVA unidad
Dirección General de la Salud · CENTRO DE INTERVENCIONISMO VASCULAR S A (CIVA SA)
No apparent explanationUnexplained90%
El precio pagado excede significativamente el rango estadístico sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 1,1 MUsual range$ 184.273 – 1,1 M