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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

14

Money spent without competition

399.86 Mn.

Average spent per lot

28.56 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1135039 implicit lot VITAL SA CUI: 9710087 Association of 3 companies
DIMEX-2000 COMPANY SRL CUI: 13027407
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
CONSTRUROM SA CUI: 16161089
45231300-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 161,450,956 159,974,567 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1049569 implicit lot RAJA SA CUI: 1890420 Association of 6 companies
TEHNOTERM SRL CUI: 6788022
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
ARCIF AG SRL CUI: 15073752
SGM CONTRACTOR SRL CUI: 18718101
ARCON AG SRL CUI: 26723613
PROCONSTRIND SRL CUI: 29470779
45232152-2 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 52,153,071 70,401,892 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1126425 lot 1 Lot title: is-cl-14 - instalatie de valorificare energetica a namolurilor si statii de epurare in judetul iasi - lot 1 APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768 Association of 5 companies
TEHNOTERM SRL CUI: 6788022
DINAMIC CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 7898651
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
ARCIF AG SRL CUI: 15073752
ARCON AG SRL CUI: 26723613
45252000-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 73,207,867 68,415,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1119702 implicit lot COMUNA GHIRODA CUI: 5517220 Association of 3 companies
DIMEX-2000 COMPANY SRL CUI: 13027407
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
BACKUP TECHNOLOGY SRL CUI: 25890788
45233252-0 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 34,397,870 32,557,292 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113971 implicit lot AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45232150-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 31,573,212 31,542,305 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1091364 implicit lot COMUNA FELEACU CUI: 4354507 Association of 3 companies
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
AWE INFRA SRL CUI: 35355090
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 18,595,887 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1115558 implicit lot COMUNA SVINITA CUI: 4550996 Association of 4 companies
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
ORIZONTURI 2025 SRL CUI: 19039648
CAVADINI CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28494079
ULPIA IZUR SRL CUI: 46957210
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 12,402,975 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1108347 implicit lot AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45231100-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 2,318,507 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1030789 implicit lot COMPANIA LOCALA DE TERMOFICARE COLTERM SA CUI: 16063013
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45241300-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 1,220,142 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1017808 implicit lot ORASUL GATAIA CUI: 4357988
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45232430-5 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 820,103 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1100812 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL TIMISOARA CUI: 14756536
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 584,122 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1013634 implicit lot REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR ROMSILVA RA CUI: 1590120
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 472,444 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1056874 implicit lot ORASUL GATAIA CUI: 4357988
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
44160000-9 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 401,133 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1075630 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL TIMISOARA CUI: 14756536
ROMTIM INSTAL SRL CUI: 13894280
71319000-7 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 149,956 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