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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

47

Money spent without competition

16.46 Mn.

Average spent per lot

350,229 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent
CAN1137154 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE REPARATII LOCOMOTIVE CFR- SCRL BRASOV SA CUI: 14257595 38322000-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 2,177,072 2,177,054
CAN1088750 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022–2023 3 1,607,280 1,607,280
CAN1072209 lot 2 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022–2023 4 1,601,600 1,601,600
CAN1121838 lot 3 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024 2 1,610,623 1,594,345
CAN1127055 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2024–2025 2 1,080,700 1,080,700
CAN1058727 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2021–2022 4 1,040,000 989,697
CAN1113866 lot 4 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2023–2024 2 949,200 949,200
CAN1162299 lot 4 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,700,894 931,166
CAN1005462 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2018–2020 2 2,053,018 562,262
CAN1129743 lot 2 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024–2025 2 530,425 529,352
SCNA1126205 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 517,263
SCNA1094006 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE REPARATII LOCOMOTIVE CFR- SCRL BRASOV SA CUI: 14257595 38322000-8 procedura simplificata 2023–2024 2 — 472,050
CAN1121838 lot 2 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024 2 408,565 404,436
CAN1058727 lot 5 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2021–2022 5 262,500 312,803
CAN1061496 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 44111510-9 licitatie deschisa 2021–2023 5 282,720 282,720
SCNA1023051 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 31161000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 2 — 278,349
SCNA1124610 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 31161000-2 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 248,362
CAN1129058 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 31161000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 490,772 248,362
CAN1004151 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 44111510-9 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 907,500 247,500
SCNA1001620 lot 4 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 31161000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 302,965 241,522
SCNA1122089 lot 2 ORADEA TRANSPORT LOCAL SA CUI: 63483 34631000-9 procedura simplificata 2025 1 26,600 135,191
CAN1128748 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024–2025 2 124,200 124,200
CAN1005462 lot 33 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT FEROVIAR DE CALATORI - CFR - CALATORI SA CUI: 11054545 34631000-9 licitatie deschisa 2018–2020 2 389,060 106,552
SCNA1097395 lot 1 ORADEA TRANSPORT LOCAL SA CUI: 63483 34631000-9 procedura simplificata 2024 1 17,100 85,038
CAN1021478 lot 1 SOCIETATEA DE TRANSPORT BUCURESTI STB SA CUI: 1589886 34630000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 84,945 84,856

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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.
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