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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

2.61 Mn.

Average spent per lot

200,618 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1150870 lot 1 Lot title: sistem encefalograma UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA CUI: 4244423
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
38300000-8 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 599,000 598,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1126593 lot 4 Lot title: pachete software UNIVERSITATEA AUREL VLAICU ARAD CUI: 3519500
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48900000-7 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 612,960 507,700 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1104101 lot 2 Lot title: tehnologie completa de tip eye tracking UNIVERSITATEA AUREL VLAICU ARAD CUI: 3519500
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
38433100-0 procedura simplificata 2023 1 362,488 358,055 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1091362 lot 3 Lot title: software de laborator si monitorizare UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA CUI: 2747321
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48210000-3 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 310,028 308,300 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1070121 implicit lot UM 02499 BUCURESTI CUI: 5129783
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48461000-7 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 193,277 193,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1075130 lot 1 Lot title: pachete software si sisteme informatice ADMINISTRATIA PREZIDENTIALA CUI: 4283732
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48000000-8 procedura simplificata 2022 1 181,770 180,668 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1049628 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DIN ORADEA CUI: 4287939
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48218000-9 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 164,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1115688 lot 6 Lot title: software de analiza, modelare si simulare cu elemente finite pentru inginerie ACADEMIA NAVALA MIRCEA CEL BATRAN- UM 02192 CONSTANTA CUI: 4515484
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 154,886 154,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1097538 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA CUI: 2747321
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48210000-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 57,974 57,900 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1104101 lot 3 Lot title: pachet sofware atlas.ti (licenta academica pentru 15 utilizatori) sau echivalent UNIVERSITATEA AUREL VLAICU ARAD CUI: 3519500
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48190000-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 40,440 39,945 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1150870 lot 3 Lot title: pachet soft UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA CUI: 4244423
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
48190000-6 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 28,000 25,900 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1096961 lot 13 Lot title: software modelare structurala UNITATEA MILITARA 01512 CUI: 4241117
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
30213000-5 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 24,000 14,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1128481 implicit lot SERVICIUL PUBLIC DE IMPOZITETAXE SI ALTE VENITURI ALE BUGETULUI LOCAL CUI: 14260477
ROMSYM DATA SRL CUI: 2624809
72540000-2 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 4,969 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