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.
ROLLO DE PAPEL PARA TICKEADORA unidad
Red de Atención Primaria de Río Negro · LIBRERIAS DEL LITORAL S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained62%
Rollo de papel estándar de 80 mm pagado a 1392.62 UYU, ≈2.6 veces el techo del rango habitual (p95=544.39), sin ninguna característica, urgencia o servicio que lo justifique.
Paid$ 1.393Usual range$ 36 – 544REGLA DE PLASTICO unidad
Red de Atención Primaria de Río Negro · LIBRERIAS DEL LITORAL S A
No apparent explanationUnexplained95%
El precio unitario de la regla de plástico excede significativamente el rango estadístico sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 61Usual range$ 8 – 47