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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

1.66 Mn.

Average spent per lot

165,567 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1124093 implicit lot DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118 39162110-9 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 801,368 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1037255 lot 5 Lot title: carne si produse de origina animala DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118
LA LEUL COM SRL CUI: 6667373
15110000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 1 301,500 189,965 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1021574 lot 5 Lot title: carne si produse de origina animala DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118
LA LEUL COM SRL CUI: 6667373
15110000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 246,016 147,195 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1037255 lot 2 Lot title: cartofi, legume, fructe si fructe cu coaja DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118 03212000-0 procedura simplificata 2020 1 166,821 110,996 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1037255 lot 3 Lot title: oua si produse lactate DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118
LA LEUL COM SRL CUI: 6667373
15500000-3 procedura simplificata 2020 1 143,966 95,607 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1021574 lot 2 Lot title: cartofi, legume, fructe si fructe cu coaja DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118 03212000-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 152,549 92,452 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1021574 lot 4 Lot title: conserve si produse din carne DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118
LA LEUL COM SRL CUI: 6667373
15131000-5 procedura simplificata 2019 1 132,353 74,228 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1037255 lot 4 Lot title: conserve si produse din carne DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118
LA LEUL COM SRL CUI: 6667373
15131000-5 procedura simplificata 2020 1 125,311 73,143 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1053316 lot 1 Lot title: cartofi, legume, fructe si fructe cu coaja DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118 03212000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 69,315 49,204 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1053316 lot 6 Lot title: paine si produse de panificatie DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA CUI: 15405118 15811100-7 procedura simplificata 2021 1 26,335 21,507 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