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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

8

Money spent without competition

787,198 RON

Average spent per lot

98,400 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1138132 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - echipamente it, echipamente pentru comunicatii si echipamente conexe, inclusiv licente SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA CUI: 7604489
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
30213300-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 380,120 371,771 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1127810 implicit lot DUK-TECH SRL CUI: 14935337
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
48820000-2 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 327,700 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1130941 lot 3 Lot title: multifunctionala SPITALUL CLINIC DE RECUPERARE CUI: 4541092
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
30232110-8 procedura simplificata 2026 1 35,360 31,330 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1000554 lot 2 Lot title: pachete software sisteme operare (windows), pachete software creare documente (office), pachete software antivirus, laptop, computer de birou LACONSEIL SRL CUI: 15975232
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
30213300-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 25,340 22,981 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1130941 lot 4 Lot title: sistem sonorizare SPITALUL CLINIC DE RECUPERARE CUI: 4541092
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
48952000-6 procedura simplificata 2026 1 23,032 20,407 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1000554 lot 4 Lot title: hard disk (solutii stocare - network storage) LACONSEIL SRL CUI: 15975232
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
30233132-5 procedura simplificata 2018 1 5,655 5,129 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1000554 lot 1 Lot title: imprimanta portabila si scaner portabil LACONSEIL SRL CUI: 15975232
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
30232110-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 4,439 4,026 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1000554 lot 3 Lot title: aparat foto functii filmare format full hd LACONSEIL SRL CUI: 15975232
IQPLUS SRL CUI: 14604198
38651600-9 procedura simplificata 2018 1 4,250 3,854 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