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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

80.35 Mn.

Average spent per lot

5.74 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1074363 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL FOCSANI CUI: 4350645 Association of 3 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
AUTOUTIL ROM SRL CUI: 24410903
34144910-0 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 30,980,741 30,968,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1051213 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL BUZAU CUI: 4233874 Association of 2 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
34144910-0 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 16,787,624 16,778,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1082427 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL DROBETA TURNU SEVERIN CUI: 4426581 Association of 3 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
ORIZONT ELECTRIC SRL CUI: 43615620
34144910-0 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 15,981,341 15,941,361 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1049837 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL SIBIU CUI: 4270740 Association of 2 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
34144910-0 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 8,335,919 8,335,919 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1066511 lot 2 Lot title: achizitie statii de autobuz, supraveghere video in statii, sistem informare calatori, automate de ticketing, internet in statii MUNICIPIUL CALARASI CUI: 4445370 Association of 2 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
34923000-3 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 2,743,548 2,394,090 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1159211 implicit lot ORASUL VICOVU DE SUS CUI: 4327073 Association of 3 companies
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
URBAN SCOPE SRL CUI: 35752863
48100000-9 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,944,462 1,944,461 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1158604 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL SIGHISOARA CUI: 5669309
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,313,936 1,244,850 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1138703 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL ARAD CUI: 3519925
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
30144200-2 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 890,009 884,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1154431 lot 2 Lot title: achizitia de echipamente sistem e-ticketing pentru 5 tramvaie de capacitate medie in cadrul proiectului extinderea flotei de tramvaie eficiente energetic pentru arad - etapa a iii-a cod smis 332203 MUNICIPIUL ARAD CUI: 3519925
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
30144200-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 536,250 536,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1154431 lot 1 Lot title: achizitia de echipamente sistem e-ticketing pentru 5 tramvaie de capacitate medie in cadrul proiectului extinderea flotei de tramvaie eficiente energetic pentru arad - etapa a ii-a cod smis 330377 MUNICIPIUL ARAD CUI: 3519925
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
30144200-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 536,250 536,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1011233 implicit lot TRANSPORT CALATORI EXPRESS SA CUI: 1355770
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
30144200-2 procedura simplificata 2018–2019 2 — 244,900 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1064020 implicit lot COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC SA CUI: 1708600
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
79941000-2 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 197,700 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1048386 implicit lot COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC SA CUI: 1708600
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
79941000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 192,156 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1030452 implicit lot COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC SA CUI: 1708600
MODESHIFT ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17669833
30144200-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 149,210 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