Connecting unique data assets and

advisory services to fuel your

X - SPEND Consulting Commerce Registry: J40/9225/2014
competitive advantage
19 Silozului Street, 2nd Floor Office 5, CIF: RO 33457972
Sector 2, Bucharest, Zip Code 021114, ROU IBAN: R095INGB0000999904483996
Tel.: +40 722.63.62.43 ING Bank N.V. Amsterdam

sales@xspend.ro www.xspend.ro
 CORE BUSINESS
State of the art business advisory & consultancy services Custom reporting, evaluation, statistics and competitive
for monitoring, winning and/or awarding Public analytics regarding:
Procurement contracts.

WHO WE ARE
Problem identification & data-backed proposals for
We are proud to serve a broad range of stakeholders from strategic planning, designing risk mitigation/prevention
various national & international organizations, civil society, measures and ensuring accurate law enforcement
media, to central/local contracting entities,
regulating/monitoring/control bodies of the State, and
Supervision, monitoring and controlling the Public
publicly or privately held companies.
Procurement system/contact awarding practices
We are a privately held company based in Bucharest (Romania) and incorporated since Granting access to Spend.ro cutting edge
2014, which operates in the field of competitive intelligence, consultancy services and competitive intelligence IT software platform Public Procurement portfolio monitoring of contracting
custom developed software components specifically tailored for Public Procurement. entities/contractors, by location, timeline, CPV codes,
designed for specific Public Procurement needs
value range, currency, and new business opportunities to
X-spend’s focus is set on leveraging unique data assets, business advisory & engagement define market share
for fuelling competitive advantage necessary to tackle opportunities and challenges of
the governmental/Public Procurement sector. Knowledge data-base creation on specific Public
Procurement issues like price/quality ratio for the
Competitive Intelligence for Public
X-spend consulting offers to its clients real-time access to all the relevant data on public Procurement (beta)
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life-cycle of a Project (“Value for money”)
procurement contracts awarded since 2007. We promote the use of an unique innovative
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15B Euro Yearly in 1.5M Contracts

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10M Indexed Contracts Totaluri grupate dupa an

software platform - Spend.ro, which offers unprecedented power of computation, easy

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Developing of custom software components within the

5000 Daily Opportunities
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to grasp and simplified views of the market.

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complexity, volume and dynamics of this ever changing business environment.

 COMMON PROBLEM
Identifying and comparing relevant data & information extracted from Data anomalies: over 27.5% of the total value of Public
the Electronic System for Public Procurement (SEAP) without Procurement contracts awarded since 2007 represents data
innovative tools specifically tailored for competitive intelligence in the anomalies that are likely to disregard the legal applicable
Public Procurement market may result in a burdensome, time thresholds.
consuming and costly process due to the volume of data on the
evolution, scale and dynamics of this sector. Cause (inter alia): incorrect reporting/enrolling of the direct
purchase contract values (690,000,000,000 Lei in total contract
Big data: over 10,300,000 procurement procedures (contracts)
10.300.000+ total value, while contracts ranging at least 190,000,000,000 Lei

27,5 %
closed in the time-frame 2007-2016, out of which: have abnormal values due to various reasons)
Closed Procurement
Over 9,100,000 awarded contracts; Contracts Lack of systemic analysis to reveal the accurate current situation
Data Anomalies
and the system faults so that intervention and corrective
16.000+
Over 270,000 on-going procedures/procurements;
Contracting 100.000+ measures can be deployed to stimulate voluntary compliance at
the expense of punitive actions.
Over 1,000,000 procedures/procurements with other application Entities Procedures with
statuses, including annulled ones; Publishing Delays
THE CHALLENGE:
Current standing (2016): over 1,500,000 Public Procurement Encompass, understand and analyze huge volume of entangled
procedures/procurements initialized up to date, with an average of Public Procurement data.
more than 4.500 contract awards/day, and over 250,000 on-going
procedures/procurements.
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platform for the Public Procurement market in Romania available data which enables adeqaute sampling and projection.
with value added functionalities that: Optimize the decision making by backing them with real-time data
and early warning filtered highlights.
Build-up administrative, organizational and strategic planning
capacity of all types of Public Procurement stakeholders. Reveal the economic value of Public Procurement aggregated data

COMPETITORS
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PRODUCTS
by capturing the size and trends for different market segments,
Allow processing and interpretation of Raw Public Procurement their geographical distribution and key players.
data. INTELLIGENCE
Maximize the outputs of the resources that are involved in market
Cleans, compiles and then reutilizes the public available data by FO R P U B L I C research, specific Public Procurement analysis and case studies by
deploying proprietary innovative IT algorithms to provide real-time
competitive analytics. PROCUREMENT significantly reducing time and costs to delivers such tasks.

Expand the level of Public Procurement performance by endorsing

Deliver structured results, finite informational formats (synthetic/ the principle of romoting competition, thus contributing to
detailed/graphic) and solid insights of the information that matters. awarding contracts in a fair manner, and consistent with efficient
management of available funds.

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Instant & Advanced search: Combine filters by procedure state, location, publication SM Public Procurement Map:
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Total procedures: 207765
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(2.42%)
€ 127,585,026.81 (1.30%)
Dynamic indexing:
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In-App messaging:
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Current operations real-time monitoring Procedure Statistics (count)

Spend.ro messaging enables real-time collaboration
within your workspace
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Agenda:
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Direct Acquisition

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Occurrences: 8,829,695 (92,7%)
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Request for Quatation Invitation Contract Notice Direct Acquisition Direct Acquisition Contract Award Notice Request for Quotation buyers and suppliers (if available)
Warnings for Contract Award Notices

Procedures with expired publication obligations (last 12 months) Quickly filter entities by contact information
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One click vCard download for managing easier the

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Center for data innovation, "Europe Should Embrace the Data Revolution"
Your starting point in the platform, which can be customized based on your preferences
Add/remove easily predefined and/or custom built widgets for a quick overview of the market (i.d. lists, charts, maps)
Widgets can also be generated from a search context query
Real-time update of widgets