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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

15

Money spent without competition

56.71 Mn.

Average spent per lot

3.78 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1094820 implicit lot COMUNA COSTISA CUI: 2612936 Association of 2 companies
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45231100-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 13,596,910 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1079470 implicit lot JUDETUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244512 Association of 3 companies
ROMAN IMPEX PREST SRL CUI: 8375340
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
DELTA TOMIS SRL CUI: 45021984
45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 11,471,433 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1082896 implicit lot ORASUL ROZNOV CUI: 2612901 Association of 2 companies
PRO INSTAL SRL CUI: 15543722
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45214310-6 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 8,843,686 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1132110 implicit lot COMUNA DELESTI CUI: 3337664
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45232150-8 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 4,188,159 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1123273 implicit lot COMUNA PUSCASI CUI: 16404196
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45232150-8 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 3,551,181 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1106370 implicit lot COMUNA POIENESTI CUI: 4539971
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 2,520,623 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1009175 implicit lot COMUNA IVANESTI CUI: 4446627
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 2,425,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1027479 implicit lot COMUNA PIATRA SOIMULUI CUI: 2613044
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 1,835,594 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1105190 implicit lot COMUNA NICOLAE BALCESCU CUI: 4353234
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45221110-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 1,656,951 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1032685 implicit lot COMUNA IVANESTI CUI: 4446627
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 1,581,297 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1104556 implicit lot COMUNA POIENESTI CUI: 4539971
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 1,524,800 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1030532 implicit lot COMUNA IVANESTI CUI: 4446627
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 1,194,227 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1023403 implicit lot COMUNA GARCENI CUI: 4359652
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 894,617 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1010403 implicit lot COMUNA ROMANI CUI: 2612995
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 752,874 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1003628 implicit lot COMUNA GARLENI CUI: 4455617
RARD CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 31463080
45221110-6 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 674,500 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