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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

19

Money spent without competition

23.04 Mn.

Average spent per lot

1.21 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1081145 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282 Association of 2 companies
CONNECTIONS CONSULT SA CUI: 17753763
INNODATA SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 42514716
48821000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,440,000 6,292,780 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1062798 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
GRUP TRANSILVAE SRL CUI: 6655328
30232000-4 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 3,599,500 3,590,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1005193 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
SIKO ROMANIA SRL CUI: 10960737
42991100-0 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 3,146,051 3,146,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1004647 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
GRAFITEC SRL CUI: 11073687
30232000-4 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 1,879,700 1,879,700 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1004474 lot 2 Lot title: achizitionarea, instalarea si punerea in functiune a unei masini de faltuit, concomitent cu preluarea contracost de catre furnizor a doua masini de faltuit stahl t-50 si stahl kd 78 MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282 42991100-0 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 1,724,402 1,722,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1026685 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
SIKO ROMANIA SRL CUI: 10960737
42991100-0 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 1,068,750 1,068,700 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1128835 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
AVI COMPACT SRL CUI: 15243008
50530000-9 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 200,000 969,520 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1026800 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282 42991100-0 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 876,375 876,300 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1132422 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
HENN GROUP POLIGRAF SRL CUI: 17344521
42991100-0 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 155,000 765,198 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1150509 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
GAZ EST SA CUI: 14679859
09123000-7 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 705,433 705,157 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1125649 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
GAZ EST SA CUI: 14679859
09123000-7 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 775,000 665,425 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1014844 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
GAZ EST SA CUI: 14679859
09123000-7 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 383,208 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1011797 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
APAN SRL CUI: 2258503
34110000-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 285,864 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1003597 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - chilere MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
VIVO CLIMA SRL CUI: 22826993
42510000-4 procedura simplificata 2018 1 62,000 282,769 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1014035 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
BLUE BIRD LIAISON SRL CUI: 30886104
22991000-3 licitatie deschisa 2020 2 589,000 206,905 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1043211 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
AUTO NOVEX SA CUI: 26928228
34136100-0 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 59,974 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1119901 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
CANCOM ROMANIA SRL CUI: 25416050
72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 50,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1100575 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
CANCOM ROMANIA SRL CUI: 25416050
72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 45,500 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1085569 implicit lot MONITORUL OFICIAL RA CUI: 427282
CANCOM ROMANIA SRL CUI: 25416050
72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 45,000 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