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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

23

Money spent without competition

4.67 Mn.

Average spent per lot

203,023 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent
CAN1098448 implicit lot DOMENIUL PUBLIC CIMPIA TURZII SA CUI: 7929510 43262000-7 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,150,000 1,150,000
SCNA1081958 implicit lot AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 50532300-6 procedura simplificata 2023 5 — 515,851
SCNA1086103 lot 1 SOCIETATEA DE PRODUCERE A ENERGIEI ELECTRICE IN HIDROCENTRALE HIDROELECTRICA SA CUI: 13267213 31121000-0 procedura simplificata 2023 1 573,200 501,751
SCNA1076764 lot 1 COMPANIA MUNICIPALA TERMOENERGETICA BUCURESTI SA CUI: 41269473 31122000-7 procedura simplificata 2022 1 513,765 489,300
SCNA1088710 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4305857 31127000-2 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 440,000
CAN1079890 lot 10 SPITALUL MUNICIPAL MORENI CUI: 4206896 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa accelerata 2022 1 333,000 332,000
SCNA1087154 implicit lot COMUNA LESPEZI CUI: 4541319 43262000-7 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 281,000
SCNA1062485 implicit lot COMUNA BRADUT CUI: 4404400 43262000-7 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 190,555
SCNA1076329 implicit lot UNITATEA MILITARA 02517 CUI: 4332487 42415110-2 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 175,750
SCNA1066584 lot 2 SERVICIUL DE PROTECTIE SI PAZA - UM 0149 F BUCURESTI CUI: 4283635 34991000-0 procedura simplificata 2022 1 123,346 123,340
CAN1106232 lot 7 SOCIETATEA NATIONALA AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL TIMISOARA-TRAIAN VUIA- SA CUI: 11178217 34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 116,500 99,375
SCNA1071765 implicit lot CAMERA DEPUTATILOR CUI: 4265795 31682530-4 procedura simplificata proprie 2022 1 — 67,200
SCNA1061109 lot 2 AUTORITATEA PENTRU ADMINISTRAREA SISTEMULUI NATIONAL ANTIGRINDINA SI DE CRESTERE A PRECIPITATIILOR CUI: 34138203 31120000-3 procedura simplificata 2021 1 69,865 63,463
SCNA1056865 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 31120000-3 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 40,500
SCNA1060785 lot 12 DISTRIBUTIE ENERGIE ELECTRICA ROMANIA SA CUI: 14476722 31121000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 40,968 33,676
SCNA1122287 lot 11 BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI CUI: 361684 50532300-6 procedura simplificata 2025 1 40,560 30,780
SCNA1061109 lot 3 AUTORITATEA PENTRU ADMINISTRAREA SISTEMULUI NATIONAL ANTIGRINDINA SI DE CRESTERE A PRECIPITATIILOR CUI: 34138203 31120000-3 procedura simplificata 2021 1 27,940 27,000
CAN1063448 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA CUI: 11054529 31121100-1 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 50,000 26,000
SCNA1060785 lot 14 DISTRIBUTIE ENERGIE ELECTRICA ROMANIA SA CUI: 14476722 31121000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 30,000 24,660
SCNA1048280 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 31120000-3 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 22,455
SCNA1062197 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE GAZE NATURALE ROMGAZ SA CUI: 14056826 31121000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 16,000
SCNA1060785 lot 7 DISTRIBUTIE ENERGIE ELECTRICA ROMANIA SA CUI: 14476722 31121000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 12,000 9,864
CAN1080797 implicit lot UM 0929 CUI: 13624359 50532300-6 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 47,420 9,000

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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.
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