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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

20

Money spent without competition

186.61 Mn.

Average spent per lot

9.33 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1120505 implicit lot ORAS BALCESTI CUI: 2541720 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45231300-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 29,267,149 29,250,540 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1018326 implicit lot COMUNA MACESU DE SUS CUI: 5002037
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 14,931,948 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1092012 implicit lot COMUNA STANESTI CUI: 2541290 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
INFRA&CIVIL DESIGN SRL CUI: 31146210
45232150-8 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 13,288,125 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1097124 implicit lot COMUNA MADULARI CUI: 2573896 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 13,098,803 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1018194 implicit lot COMUNA CARNA CUI: 16397927
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 12,479,475 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1077097 implicit lot COMUNA GLAVILE CUI: 2573853
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 11,664,601 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1019835 implicit lot COMUNA GHIOROIU CUI: 2539487
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 10,754,608 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1114288 implicit lot COMUNA MACIUCA CUI: 2541584 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 8,665,170 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1001470 implicit lot COMUNA DRANIC CUI: 5002070
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45231300-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 8,576,085 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1091123 implicit lot COMUNA GHIOROIU CUI: 2539487 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 8,315,668 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1082668 implicit lot COMUNA LAPUSATA CUI: 2541495
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 8,281,538 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1004811 implicit lot COMUNA GLAVILE CUI: 2573853
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45231300-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 7,795,640 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1097852 implicit lot COMUNA LADESTI CUI: 2541487 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 7,750,234 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1005091 implicit lot COMUNA MADULARI CUI: 2573896
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45232150-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 6,242,728 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1006032 implicit lot COMUNA TEASC CUI: 5002096
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 6,064,332 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1085153 implicit lot COMUNA MITROFANI CUI: 16356722 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45232150-8 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 6,016,801 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1017343 implicit lot COMUNA SCUNDU CUI: 2573926
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 5,865,720 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1116726 implicit lot COMUNA STEFANESTI CUI: 2573918 Association of 2 companies
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
SUDSTADE SRL CUI: 43693679
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 3,326,227 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1002847 implicit lot COMUNA STANESTI CUI: 2541290
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45221110-6 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 2,310,624 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1001137 implicit lot COMUNA LAPUSATA CUI: 2541495
RODIAN INVEST SRL CUI: 23090797
45231300-8 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 1,931,729 See the tender and its contracts

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Rows per page: 25 50 100
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