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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

86

Money spent without competition

115.23 Mn.

Average spent per lot

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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Tender lots with a single bidder
Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent Tender
CAN1059824 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 3 companies
MAGUAY COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 12167046
72230000-6 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 11,232,790 10,949,526 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1061507 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
ETA2U SRL CUI: 1801821
30211400-5 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 9,464,200 9,417,600 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1066459 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 42512300-1 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 6,398,407 6,395,715 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1059811 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 2 companies
ICCO ELECTRONICS SRL CUI: 13209247
32552310-3 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 5,846,520 5,771,400 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1046689 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 3 companies 72315100-7 licitatie deschisa 2020–2022 5 1,304,000 5,661,036 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1165407 lot 4 Lot title: achizitie solutie de control a accesului in retele (nac) MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
32420000-3 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 4,333,192 4,320,299 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1023445 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 64121000-0 licitatie deschisa 2019–2020 2 5,000,000 4,259,773 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1165180 lot 1 Lot title: upgrade pentru infrastructura de procesare aferenta sniv/e-viza MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
MIDA SOFT BUSINESS SRL CUI: 16005870
48820000-2 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 4,225,931 4,225,600 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1058879 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
32260000-3 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 4,183,176 4,180,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1023100 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 34110000-1 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 3,577,840 3,572,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1156949 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 71322000-1 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 3,979,775 3,382,809 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113937 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
INVERGENT SA CUI: 31021453
72212517-6 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 3,200,000 3,190,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1165407 lot 1 Lot title: achizitie solutie de detectie avansata impotriva amenintarilor cibernetice (apt) MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48732000-8 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 3,021,032 2,998,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1165180 lot 5 Lot title: upgrade pentru solutia de criptare a datelor aferenta sistemelor sniv/e-viza MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
ICCO ELECTRONICS SRL CUI: 13209247
48732000-8 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 2,960,641 2,947,483 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1055695 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
30233180-6 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 2,867,653 2,849,920 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1052858 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
32420000-3 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 2,744,618 2,646,008 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1072215 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
ETA2U SRL CUI: 1801821
50324100-3 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,421,434 2,415,835 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1012317 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
32424000-1 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 2,365,871 2,348,227 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1163722 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 2 companies
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
72212000-4 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 2,029,884 2,007,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1171079 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
48214000-1 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 1,740,000 1,718,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1015118 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
ELICOM SRL CUI: 1597056
79512000-6 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 1,656,000 1,654,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1165180 lot 2 Lot title: upgrade pentru infrastructura de stocare aferenta sniv/e-viza MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
30233000-1 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 1,649,220 1,635,300 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1163869 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 2 companies
SMART CONTROL SRL CUI: 15362947
MIDA SOFT BUSINESS SRL CUI: 16005870
72212000-4 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 1,632,561 1,616,235 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1129291 lot 1 Lot title: achizitie 180 multifunctionale laser monocrom a4 pentru extinderea infrastructurii hardware de la md/oc ale romaniei in strainatate, inclusiv servicii de transport la md/oc MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
MIDA SOFT BUSINESS SRL CUI: 16005870
30232110-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,711,080 1,579,819 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1034491 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863
CLEAN PREST ACTIV SRL CUI: 24131453
50000000-5 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,507,000 1,428,150 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