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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

13

Money spent without competition

526,604 RON

Average spent per lot

40,508 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1066891 lot 1 Lot title: achizitia 36 computere portabile ( laptopuri) cu 36 pachete office incluse si instalate INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR JUDETEAN IALOMITA CUI: 4365182
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2022 1 133,200 104,400 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1103609 lot 1 Lot title: lotul 1 - echipamente tic laborator de informatica (componenta i9) COMUNA FILIPENI CUI: 4591589
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 88,540 88,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1052240 implicit lot SCOALA GIMNAZIALA VULTURU CUI: 28082973
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 74,204 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1095028 lot 4 Lot title: lot 4 - calculator all in one UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE IULIU HATIEGANU CUI: 4288047
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213300-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 58,800 57,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1065096 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 JUDETUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244512
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2022 1 56,985 56,984 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060565 lot 4 Lot title: echipamente it si software isu JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
33195100-4 procedura simplificata 2021 1 32,143 32,140 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1059435 implicit lot DIRECTIA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA A MUNICIPIULUI PIATRA NEAMT CUI: 34340120
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30232110-8 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 27,879 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060565 lot 3 Lot title: echipamente it si software cmj JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2021 1 24,126 24,125 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1067835 lot 1 Lot title: laptopuri, sisteme desktop all-in-one si pachete software cu sistem de operare, soft de editare si prelucrare texte, antivirus AGENTIA JUDETEANA PENTRU OCUPAREA FORTEI DE MUNCA CUI: 11361990
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30000000-9 procedura simplificata 2022 1 22,900 22,900 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1047826 lot 3 Lot title: achizitie echipamente it si software - centrul zonal de pregatire de protectie civila bacau JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580 Association of 2 companies
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
OFFICE HQ SRL CUI: 32152007
30213300-8 procedura simplificata 2020 1 15,798 15,299 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060565 lot 2 Lot title: echipamente it si software czppc JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
30213300-8 procedura simplificata 2021 1 11,092 11,091 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1047826 lot 4 Lot title: achizitie echipamente it si software - centrul militar judetean bacau JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580 Association of 2 companies
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
OFFICE HQ SRL CUI: 32152007
30213100-6 procedura simplificata 2020 1 9,832 9,564 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1047826 lot 2 Lot title: achizitie echipamente it si software - structura teritoriala pentru probleme speciale bacau JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580 Association of 2 companies
A & B COMPUTERS SRL CUI: 17582078
OFFICE HQ SRL CUI: 32152007
30213300-8 procedura simplificata 2020 1 3,782 3,018 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