Blanco Varela, BrunoQuintas Pérez, MaríaSánchez Carreira, María del CarmenMourão, Paulo Jorge Reis2022-09-012022-09-012022Public Organization Review (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00638-51566-7170http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29192Corruption and inefficiency of public funds pose a risk in public administrations. This paper analyses the corruption risk at the local level by analysing indicators of public procurement contracts in four deputations of Galicia (Spain). In addition, the pandemic has created opportunities to increase this risk and the misuse of public funds given the need to act quickly. Therefore, the study analyses whether the Covid crisis led to significant changes in expenditure in the four deputations and whether it involves a higher use of minor contracts, an award procedure without publicity or bidding, which has been found as increasing corruption riskeng© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Corruption riskIndicatorLocal governmentLocal public procurementMinor contractCovidjournal article10.1007/s11115-022-00638-51573-7098open access