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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

37

Money spent without competition

70.80 Mn.

Average spent per lot

1.91 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1086809 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2022–2025 4 28,356,458 28,279,467 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1048639 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38540000-2 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 5,876,000 5,876,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1158156 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 20,917,724 5,244,921 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1090900 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38431000-5 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,990,000 2,989,998 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1075002 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,925,000 2,925,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1037225 lot 1 Lot title: 13 buc. standuri de franare compatibile cu echipamentele existente tip vlt REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38540000-2 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 2,594,500 2,594,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1090872 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38540000-2 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,390,000 2,389,998 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1056550 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2021–2024 4 2,163,000 2,186,625 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017536 lot 4 Lot title: lot 4 REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019–2021 4 1,945,310 1,917,123 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017536 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019–2022 5 1,669,057 1,870,628 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1117870 implicit lot INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU PROTECTIA MEDIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 34938931 34110000-1 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,869,716 1,869,712 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1097819 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1. achizitia a 30 seturi aparatura de noxe alcatuite din analizoare de gaze, opacimetre cu camera de fum si accesorii compatibile cu liniile integrate vlt REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38432300-5 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,833,000 1,833,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017536 lot 1 Lot title: lot i REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019–2021 4 1,877,426 1,780,176 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1027253 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38431000-5 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 1,400,000 1,399,995 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017536 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019–2021 4 1,370,660 1,283,360 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1031710 lot 1 Lot title: lotul 1 REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50230000-6 licitatie deschisa 2020–2022 3 604,552 976,725 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1117348 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2- sistem de transport electric al prototipului LIGHTNING NET SRL CUI: 16828981 34100000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 959,900 959,850 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1031710 lot 2 Lot title: lotul 2 REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50230000-6 licitatie deschisa 2020–2022 3 792,016 710,081 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1085154 implicit lot LIGHTNING NET SRL CUI: 16828981 39151200-7 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 510,620 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1058016 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE GAZE NATURALE ROMGAZ SA CUI: 14056826 50532000-3 licitatie deschisa 2022–2023 17 159,743 430,700 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1064945 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38540000-2 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 429,999 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017526 lot 1 Lot title: lot i REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 330,520 330,520 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017526 lot 2 Lot title: lot ii REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 313,459 313,458 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1134394 implicit lot COMUNA VERNESTI CUI: 4088197 38540000-2 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 295,490 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1065206 lot 2 Lot title: lot b REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 50410000-2 procedura simplificata 2022 1 246,880 246,839 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