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High risk #05 Single bidder

Tender lots with a single bidder

Tender lots that drew a single offer and on which money has already been spent.

Lots in publicly advertised tenders that drew a single offer and on which contracts have already been signed. It is the risk indicator most used in European procurement research: no competition in an open procedure can mean a closed market or specifications written for one bidder. Computed on tenders only, counting only money spent.

Single-bidder lots

13

Money spent without competition

10.65 Mn.

Average spent per lot

819,016 RON

Single-bidder lots by year of spending

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

Money spent without competition, by CPV group

The 10 largest CPV groups by value; the other 286 are added into a single tile.

How it is computed

Computed on every tender from 2018 to today.

  1. Lots on which money was spent are kept: those with at least one contract or subsequent contract carrying a value and a winner. Framework agreements are left out, because the money is spent through the subsequent contracts.
  2. Only competitive procedures with publication are kept. Negotiation without prior publication is left out: there the authority invites companies directly, so a single offer is normal.
  3. The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up. Withdrawn offers are not counted. For the authority's own procedures, with no count per lot, the contract's count is used.
  4. The lot is flagged when it received a single offer.
  5. A contract covering several lots is split between them by estimated value and booked in the year it was signed. With no year chosen each lot appears once, with its total across all years.
  6. The winner shown is the company with the largest part of the lot's money that year; for an association the contract is shared evenly among members.

Thresholds

  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted
  • Procedures included: open and accelerated open tender, simplified procedure, restricted and accelerated restricted tender, competitive and accelerated competitive negotiation, competitive dialogue, the authority's own procedures and request for offers
  • Only lots on which at least one contract or subsequent contract has been signed

Tenders only, and money spent only: a framework agreement with no subsequent contract is not counted. Negotiation without prior publication and direct purchases are not included.

The data holds at most 200 contracts per notice. Where a notice has more, the money from the missing contracts is not in the figures.

The offer count is the one the authority reported. On under 1% of lots the contracts report different counts; the largest is kept. A single offer does not prove a breach: in a market with one manufacturer it can be natural. The signal is repetition, at the same authority or with the same winner.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Tender lots with a single bidder
Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent Tender
CAN1174662 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801
OSCAR DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 13991630
09134220-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 30,683,250 5,035,316 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1064387 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 66516100-1 procedura simplificata 2021–2022 10 — 1,242,028 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1037903 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801
MMA GROUP SECURITY SRL CUI: 28881130
79713000-5 procedura simplificata proprie The single offer is the one reported on the contract: the authority's own procedures carry no offer count per lot. 2020 1 — 1,212,968 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1097107 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801
X SERV SRL CUI: 26150770
79713000-5 procedura simplificata proprie The single offer is the one reported on the contract: the authority's own procedures carry no offer count per lot. 2023 1 — 1,202,806 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1097599 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801
GROUPAMA ASIGURARI SA CUI: 6291812
66516100-1 procedura simplificata 2023–2024 5 — 712,168 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1067034 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 Association of 2 companies
ITACA LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 30808114
ECOMOCAR SRL CUI: 36727990
45111100-9 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 475,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1023469 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801
PALMEX CM SRL CUI: 28419867
44619000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 324,500 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1048366 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 66516100-1 procedura simplificata 2020–2021 4 — 303,709 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1158086 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 85147000-1 procedura simplificata proprie The single offer is the one reported on the contract: the authority's own procedures carry no offer count per lot. 2025 1 — 100,871 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1019142 lot 7 Lot title: ulei transmisie t90 ep2, recomandat de fabricantul angrenajului sau echivalent TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 09211000-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 28,050 16,842 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1134788 implicit lot TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 80530000-8 procedura simplificata proprie The single offer is the one reported on the contract: the authority's own procedures carry no offer count per lot. 2023 1 — 12,879 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1019142 lot 8 Lot title: ulei hidraulic dte 10 excel 15, recomandat de fabricantul sistemelor hidraulice sau echivalent TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 09211100-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 10,890 6,539 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1019142 lot 9 Lot title: ulei hidraulic pentru instalatii industriale hidraulice si hidrostatice lubrifin h46 a sau echivalent TRANSURB SA CUI: 10890801 09211000-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 2,640 1,585 See the tender and its contracts

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Notice and lot
The award notice number, linked to its record on e-licitatie.ro, with the lot underneath. The lot title appears on hovering over the information sign. A notice without lots has a single implicit lot, with no title.
Contracting authority
The authority that ran the tender.
Winner
The companies that received the lot's money that year. For an association every member is listed, by share; the filter finds the lot through any of them.
CPV code
The lot's CPV code: what was bought. The filter also takes leading digits: 45 covers all works.
Procedure type
The award procedure. The information sign means the offer count comes from the contract, not the lot.
Year
The years the lot's contracts were signed. With no year chosen the span appears; with a year chosen, that year.
#
How many contracts were signed on the lot. With a year chosen, the lot's total appears underneath if it has contracts in other years too.
Estimated value
The value the authority estimated before the tender, for the whole lot.
Spent
The money spent on the lot. A contract over several lots is split by estimated value. The table is ordered by this column by default.
Tender
Opens the tender and its contracts, with the offers received on each lot.

The same data, through the API

Every figure on this page comes from the public API, through the endpoints below. The parameters each one takes are in the documentation; each needs an access key.

  • /api/v1/reference/years
  • /api/v1/reference/procedure-types
  • /api/v1/red-flags/ofertant-unic
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/ofertant-unic/cpv-spend

Open data and API