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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

22

Money spent without competition

4.56 Mn.

Average spent per lot

207,328 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1119763 lot 2 Lot title: licente software fortinet MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48214000-1 licitatie deschisa 2023–2024 2 996,000 926,284 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1077935 implicit lot MINISTERUL MUNCIIFAMILIEITINERETULUI SI SOLIDARITATII SOCIALE CUI: 4266669 35121000-8 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 568,680 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1059340 lot 3 Lot title: echipamente de protectie acces internet si intranet CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 32413100-2 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 512,605 472,148 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1172301 implicit lot CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 71356300-1 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 330,579 328,562 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1121753 implicit lot CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 309,400 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1148644 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortigate 1101e - 2 seturi CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 302,521 297,728 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1170816 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortigate 1101e - 2 seturi CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 297,521 294,689 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1135198 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortigate 1101e - 2 seturi CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 285,714 278,904 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1148644 lot 4 Lot title: lot 4 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortiweb 1000e - 1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 126,050 124,053 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1170816 lot 4 Lot title: lot 4 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortiweb 1000e - 1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 123,967 122,787 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1170816 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortigate 201e - 2 seturi CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 123,967 122,787 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1063870 lot 12 Lot title: licente solutie patch management DIRECTORATUL NATIONAL DE SECURITATE CIBERNETICA CUI: 28598894 48000000-8 procedura simplificata 2021 1 142,857 120,750 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1059340 lot 2 Lot title: echipament de protectie email gateway antispam CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 32413100-2 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 126,050 116,102 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1148644 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate fortimail 900f pentru acces la serverul de posta electronica din camera deputatilor - 1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 100,840 99,242 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1170816 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate fortimail 900f pentru acces la serverul de posta electronica din camera deputatilor - 1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 99,174 98,230 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1156515 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortigate 201e - 2 seturi CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 84,034 82,631 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1070219 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3: servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate acces internet fortiweb 1000d pentru acces la internet a utilizatorilor din camera deputatilor-2 bucati CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 procedura simplificata 2022 1 92,437 80,673 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1135198 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - servicii suport tehnic echipament securitate fortimail pentru acces la serverul de posta electronica din camera deputatilor - 1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 58,824 57,422 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1119763 lot 3 Lot title: licente software ivanti patch sccm MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48730000-4 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 70,000 39,350 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1031745 lot 1 Lot title: reinnoire licenta soft ivanti patch sccm MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48730000-4 procedura simplificata 2019 1 21,008 14,627 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1114050 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2: servicii suport tehnic pentru autentificarea securizata a echipementelor de securitate-1 set CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 72260000-5 procedura simplificata 2024 1 8,403 3,227 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1048286 lot 5 Lot title: licenta software fortiauthenticator 200e MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48214000-1 procedura simplificata 2020 1 3,025 2,943 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