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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

41

Money spent without competition

26.23 Mn.

Average spent per lot

639,723 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1103227 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ALEXANDRIA CUI: 4652660 Association of 2 companies
PROADMIN CONSULTING SRL CUI: 31240658
48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,176,706 2,133,160
CAN1040094 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL TOPLITA CUI: 4245178 48900000-7 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 2,135,000 2,092,300
CAN1034730 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL OLTENITA CUI: 4294103 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 2,188,500 2,089,040
CAN1079825 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CALARASI CUI: 4445370 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,689,400 1,682,000
CAN1109372 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 48517000-5 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,673,718 1,670,118
CAN1089597 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL GIURGIU CUI: 4852455 72212517-6 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,975,000 1,667,960
CAN1061830 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL FETESTI CUI: 4365077 Association of 2 companies 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 1,494,600 1,464,708
CAN1105730 implicit lot CONSILIUL LOCAL MUNICIPAL LUGOJ - DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA COMUNITARA LUGOJ CUI: 16817664 72262000-9 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,450,500 1,384,000
CAN1098047 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL BOTOSANI CUI: 3372882 72413000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,388,100 1,346,250
CAN1039525 implicit lot SECTORUL 5 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4433953 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,365,000 1,334,170
SCNA1078996 implicit lot ORASUL GHIMBAV CUI: 4801362 48000000-8 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 821,500
SCNA1097571 implicit lot COMUNA SAVADISLA CUI: 4889497 72262000-9 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 816,378
CAN1147332 implicit lot AUTORITATEA NAVALA ROMANA CUI: 11055818 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 788,000 772,000
CAN1168723 implicit lot SECTORUL 3 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4420465 72212441-2 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 4,964,500 621,000
SCNA1121322 implicit lot DIRECTIA GENERALA DE IMPOZITE SI TAXE LOCALE SECTOR 6 CUI: 12380248 72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 577,368
SCNA1133947 implicit lot DIRECTIA GENERALA DE IMPOZITE SI TAXE LOCALE SECTOR 6 CUI: 12380248 72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 557,290
SCNA1030112 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CAMPINA CUI: 2843272 48000000-8 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 484,620
SCNA1009679 implicit lot JUDETUL DOLJ CUI: 4417150 50324100-3 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 480,000
SCNA1108354 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 72261000-2 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 437,770
SCNA1100338 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL BOTOSANI CUI: 3372882 72267000-4 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 420,000
SCNA1035410 implicit lot DIRECTIA DE IMPOZITE SI TAXE LOCALE A SECTORULUI 5 CUI: 38320436 72261000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 403,992
CAN1034188 lot 3 MUNICIPIUL BUZAU CUI: 4233874 48517000-5 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 384,000 383,000
SCNA1121068 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 72261000-2 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 350,000
SCNA1134303 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ODORHEIU SECUIESC CUI: 4367558 72261000-2 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 330,604
SCNA1132455 implicit lot ORAS BREAZA CUI: 2845486 30231100-8 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 323,200

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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