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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

10

Money spent without competition

31.28 Mn.

Average spent per lot

3.13 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1100399 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995 Association of 2 companies 45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 23,636,377 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1113451 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995 45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 2,615,691 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1024034 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
CDM COMASTRAD SRL CUI: 12571280
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 1,812,607 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1099209 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995 Association of 2 companies
OFFICE TRADING SRL CUI: 3153920
LCI CONSTRUCT GRUP SRL CUI: 24006957
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 1,389,395 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1007031 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
ANTICHI COSTRUTTORI SRL CUI: 31218715
45232430-5 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 1,025,050 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1030225 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
CAPITAL UTIL SRL CUI: 32401779
16000000-5 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 265,800 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1004686 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
ZORBA EXPERT SRL CUI: 31382873
45236110-4 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 254,823 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1023255 implicit lot COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
TOPOARCH ENGINEERING SRL CUI: 37331747
71354300-7 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 134,417 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1138591 lot 1 Lot title: materiale didactice pentru dotarea laboratorului de stiinte COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995
ALFA VEGA SRL CUI: 2386812
39162100-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 100,670 100,650 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1138591 lot 3 Lot title: furnizarea de materiale specifice pentru dotarea salii de sport COMUNA CATEASCA CUI: 4971995 37420000-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 49,189 46,125 See the tender and its contracts

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
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