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.
INTERRUPTOR TERMOMAGNETICO UNIPOLAR unidad
Comando General del Ejército · FIERRO VIGNOLI S A FIVISA
No apparent explanationUnexplained55%
Interruptor termomagnético unipolar de 16 A (ítem estándar, unidad coincide con catálogo) pagado ~7% por encima del p95, sin marca, urgencia ni servicio que lo justifiquen.
Paid$ 297Usual range$ 95 – 287INTERRUPTOR DE COMBINACION LINEA MODULAR unidad
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación · FIERRO VIGNOLI S A FIVISA
No apparent explanationUnexplained100%
El precio pagado por el interruptor de combinación es significativamente superior al rango estadístico y no hay contexto que lo justifique.
Paid$ 464Usual range$ 97 – 393CINTA AUTOSOLDABLE rollo
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación · FIERRO VIGNOLI S A FIVISA
No apparent explanationUnexplained100%
El precio unitario pagado por la cinta autosoldable es significativamente superior al rango estadístico habitual, sin justificación aparente en el contexto.
Paid$ 788Usual range$ 90 – 322