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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

2,480

Money spent without competition

5.24 Bn.

Average spent per lot

2.11 Mn.

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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent
CAN1117743 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
SOFTRONIC SRL CUI: 11492278
50223000-4 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 100,678,720 500,614,867
CAN1117820 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
RELOC SA CUI: 2300870
50223000-4 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 91,178,720 452,901,666
CAN1130852 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
OSCAR DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 13991630
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2024–2026 5 383,400,000 368,505,763
CAN1119317 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 47,933,325 238,254,162
CAN1117750 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 43,139,993 213,797,748
CAN1117819 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 35,151,105 174,785,355
CAN1117823 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 31,955,550 158,895,777
CAN1117813 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 22,368,885 111,185,276
CAN1015257 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2019–2020 5 289,800,000 107,755,200
CAN1084574 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2022–2024 5 101,001,113 99,160,630
CAN1015285 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2019–2022 5 192,780,000 85,422,960
CAN1117825 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 15,977,775 79,368,330
CAN1117809 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 15,977,775 79,273,854
CAN1133455 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 Association of 2 companies 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2024–2026 5 116,818,735 72,363,805
CAN1021237 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
RELOC SA CUI: 2300870
50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2019–2022 24 109,092,012 69,154,257
CAN1158591 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 3 152,484,356 65,975,196
CAN1081506 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
ROMPETROL DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 12751583
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 56,700,000 58,961,000
CAN1016506 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2019–2021 36 93,303,496 58,589,085
CAN1055105 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
ROMPETROL DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 12751583
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 53,950,000 58,352,710
CAN1090177 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
ROMPETROL DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 12751583
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 58,730,000 55,272,000
CAN1117828 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50224200-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 9,586,665 47,650,832
CAN1036055 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
ROMPETROL DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 12751583
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 56,563,000 47,419,840
CAN1171713 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545
OSCAR DOWNSTREAM SRL CUI: 13991630
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2026 2 626,450,000 41,475,420
CAN1089103 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2022–2024 3 37,925,461 37,917,048
CAN1082330 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 50222000-7 licitatie deschisa 2022–2024 4 35,618,229 35,529,439

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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.
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