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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

397

Money spent without competition

192.44 Mn.

Average spent per lot

484,730 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1144475 lot 1 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE GAZE NATURALE ROMGAZ SA CUI: 14056826 42418900-8 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 3,757,760 3,465,880
CAN1011923 implicit lot COMPANIA MUNICIPALA STRAZI PODURI SI PASAJE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 37832160 43200000-5 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 3,680,000 3,371,760
CAN1148403 implicit lot TERMO PLOIESTI SRL CUI: 46877331 43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 3,233,750 2,950,000
CAN1064909 lot 3 APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768 43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 2,413,175 2,410,155
CAN1041105 implicit lot DRUMURI MUNICIPALE TIMISOARA SA CUI: 3286536 42000000-6 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 2,350,000 2,333,940
CAN1088017 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE BRASOV CUI: 15509275 42418000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,392,000 2,289,280
CAN1136135 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE ADMINISTRARE A INFRASTRUCTURII RUTIERE SA CUI: 16054368 43250000-0 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,807,200 1,807,000
SCNA1123555 implicit lot AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 43262100-8 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 1,739,610
CAN1009504 implicit lot UNITATEA MILITARA 02384 CUI: 13683878 43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 1,790,500 1,626,340
SCNA1125430 implicit lot HIDRO PRAHOVA SA CUI: 16826034 Association of 2 companies 43262000-7 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 1,497,470
CAN1134969 lot 2 APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768 43262100-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,567,346 1,375,000
CAN1028186 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA CUI: 11054529 43200000-5 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,250,000 1,226,880
CAN1028819 lot 2 COMPANIA REGIONALA DE APA BACAU SA CUI: 27429315 34100000-8 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,200,000 1,180,149
CAN1137513 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE ADMINISTRARE A INFRASTRUCTURII RUTIERE SA CUI: 16054368 43200000-5 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,160,180 1,160,000
CAN1137525 lot 1 DOMENIUL PUBLIC NAPOCA SA CUI: 201233 43262100-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,100,000 1,095,615
CAN1114839 implicit lot UNITATEA MILITARA 01026 CUI: 4193184 43200000-5 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,100,000 1,070,000
CAN1157993 implicit lot ADMINISTRATIA BAZINALA DE APA DOBROGEA LITORAL CUI: 23877359 43250000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,028,099 951,600
CAN1015525 implicit lot COMPANIA MUNICIPALA ENERGETICA BUCURESTI SA CUI: 37752029 43211000-5 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 961,284 948,338
CAN1174788 implicit lot REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR ROMSILVA RA CUI: 1590120 Association of 2 companies
MOTORACTIVE IFN SA CUI: 10180820
43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 989,436 944,984
CAN1110494 implicit lot COMUNA LISA CUI: 6691975 43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 934,851 934,850
CAN1030861 lot 1 AQUABIS SA CUI: 566787 43210000-8 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 936,000 932,832
SCNA1001256 implicit lot AQUABIS SA CUI: 566787 43210000-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 925,942
SCNA1081953 implicit lot ADMINISTRATIA DOMENIULUI PUBLIC SECTOR 2 CUI: 4266260 42914000-6 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 915,750
CAN1175070 implicit lot REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR ROMSILVA RA CUI: 1590120 Association of 2 companies
MOTORACTIVE IFN SA CUI: 10180820
43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 185,864 902,384
SCNA1088244 implicit lot COMUNA BESTEPE CUI: 16363398 43210000-8 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 880,000

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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