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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

10

Money spent without competition

31.05 Mn.

Average spent per lot

3.10 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1090690 implicit lot COMUNA VALEA LUPULUI CUI: 16384625 Association of 5 companies
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
GEO MYKE SRL CUI: 8642901
FINILUX DECOR SRL CUI: 24497340
GAZMIR IASI SRL CUI: 28259650
FAN ELECTRIC GRUP SRL CUI: 46205314
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 11,604,152 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1086524 implicit lot COMUNA MIROSLAVA CUI: 4540461 Association of 2 companies
CONEST SA CUI: 1959695
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233161-5 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 4,993,052 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1038323 implicit lot COMUNA POPESTI CUI: 4540399
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 4,898,041 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1017601 implicit lot COMUNA DOBROVAT CUI: 4540607
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 3,822,548 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1043012 implicit lot COMUNA CIUREA CUI: 4540658
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 1,956,928 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1100769 implicit lot COMUNA DUMESTI CUI: 4540585 Association of 2 companies
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
INFRACONCEPT SRL CUI: 39245111
45233162-2 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 1,338,495 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1103367 implicit lot COMUNA BRAESTI CUI: 4540968
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233162-2 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 1,123,604 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1072091 lot 2 Lot title: executie lucrari pentru infiintare sens giratoriu in satul vorovesti, la intersectia strazilor prof. dumitru pricop, principala , militari si ion neculce in comuna miroslava judetul iasi COMUNA MIROSLAVA CUI: 4540461
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233140-2 procedura simplificata 2022 1 1,017,120 993,577 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1022097 lot 4 Lot title: lucrari de reparatii curente: asfaltare drumuri si alei in cazarma 398 iasi UNITATEA MILITARA 02033 IASI CUI: 14593609
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233222-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 204,377 193,815 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1023582 implicit lot STATIUNEA DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU POMICULTURA IASI CUI: 3423277
MECON IASI SRL CUI: 1964519
45233222-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 125,557 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