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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

18

Money spent without competition

12.56 Mn.

Average spent per lot

697,876 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Tender lots with a single bidder
Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent Tender
CAN1118277 implicit lot AQUACARAS SA CUI: 16868757
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122220-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 3,881,000 3,825,361 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1125370 lot 1 Lot title: 1 - servicii de mentenanta preventiva si corectiva a pompelor grundfos si altele - lot 1 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511100-1 licitatie deschisa 2024–2025 3 1,835,800 1,353,002 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1096093 lot 2 Lot title: servicii de mentenanta preventiva si corectiva a pompelor grundfos si altele - lot 2 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511100-1 licitatie deschisa 2023 5 1,342,000 1,312,820 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1095956 implicit lot APA SERV VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 7392416
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
38436000-0 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 726,480 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1061615 lot 2 Lot title: servicii de mentenanta preventiva si corectiva a pompelor grundfos si altele - lot 2 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511100-1 licitatie deschisa 2021–2022 6 1,182,800 701,321 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1110346 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 : electropompe si mixere grundfos COMPANIA DE APA ARAD SA CUI: 1683483
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511000-0 procedura simplificata 2024–2026 8 600,000 655,300 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1114116 implicit lot COMPANIA DE APA ARAD SA CUI: 1683483
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122130-0 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 593,870 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1014740 lot 1 Lot title: servicii de intretinere si reparare a electropompelor si mixerelor de productie grundfos COMPANIA DE APA ARAD SA CUI: 1683483
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50510000-3 licitatie deschisa 2019–2022 4 537,000 566,888 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1108253 implicit lot AQUACARAS SA CUI: 16868757
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122220-8 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 529,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1035836 lot 2 Lot title: servicii de mentenanta preventiva si corectiva a pompelor grundfos si altele - lot 2 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511100-1 licitatie deschisa 2020–2021 8 932,800 438,467 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1133400 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - grup de pompare - grundfos sau echivalent - 3 buc AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122000-0 procedura simplificata 2026 1 440,000 432,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1012926 lot 2 Lot title: servicii de mentenanta preventiva si corectiva a pompelor grundfos si altele - lot 2 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511100-1 licitatie deschisa 2019–2020 9 860,000 390,352 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1084194 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - pompe submersibile spau AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122220-8 procedura simplificata 2023 1 348,000 346,125 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1114170 lot 2 Lot title: electropompe submersibile pentru foraje - lot 2 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122220-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 217,800 215,170 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1088544 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 : electropompe si mixere grundfos COMPANIA DE APA ARAD SA CUI: 1683483
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50511000-0 procedura simplificata 2023–2024 4 196,720 209,498 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1080975 lot 3 Lot title: 3-lot - pompe submersibile pompe submersibile pentru foraje AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
43134100-2 procedura simplificata 2023 1 198,000 151,474 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1130308 lot 3 Lot title: pompe apa uzata grundfos sau echivalent - lot 3 AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
42122220-8 procedura simplificata 2026 1 109,000 87,965 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1036299 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE PRODUCERE A ENERGIEI ELECTRICE IN HIDROCENTRALE HIDROELECTRICA SA CUI: 13267213
HIDROMET SRL CUI: 14044619
50000000-5 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 25,871 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