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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

63.30 Mn.

Average spent per lot

4.52 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1109513 implicit lot MUNICIPIU RM VALCEA CUI: 2540813 Association of 2 companies
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45321000-3 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 14,427,213 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1017215 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CURTEA DE ARGES CUI: 4121927
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45220000-5 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 13,819,758 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1022654 implicit lot ORAS VOLUNTARI CUI: 4283481
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45214100-1 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 9,393,006 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1131055 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CAMPULUNG CUI: 4122361 Association of 3 companies
PROINSTAL PIPE SRL CUI: 11433360
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45214200-2 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 7,429,340 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1094400 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967 Association of 2 companies
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 5,364,238 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1032233 lot 2 Lot title: construire centru cultural in satul suseni in comuna suseni, judetul arges COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45200000-9 procedura simplificata 2020 1 4,486,749 4,375,411 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1089966 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - amplasament 2 str. independentei, statie bus capat de linie razboieni MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967 Association of 2 companies
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45310000-3 procedura simplificata 2023 1 1,851,242 1,848,306 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1119369 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL TARGOVISTE CUI: 4279944
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 1,636,224 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1089966 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - amplasament 3 str. petrochimistilor, statie bus capat de linie arpechim MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967 Association of 2 companies
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45310000-3 procedura simplificata 2023 1 1,518,021 1,548,870 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1050584 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967 Association of 2 companies
EURAS SRL CUI: 6661206
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 1,264,213 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1101766 implicit lot COMUNA ROCIU CUI: 4469515 Association of 2 companies
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 899,895 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1013123 implicit lot COMUNA DAVIDESTI CUI: 4122531
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 560,787 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1121035 lot 3 Lot title: reparatii capitale adaposturi de protectie civila - cartier prundu, b-dul. petrochimistilor,bl. b23, sc. c, subsol, judetul arges MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2025 1 421,366 373,788 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1121035 lot 2 Lot title: reparatii capitale adaposturi de protectie civila - cartier prundu, b-dul. petrochimistilor, nr. 18, bl. b2, sc. a, subsol, judetul arges MUNICIPIUL PITESTI CUI: 4317967
TOP LINE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 34251414
45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2025 1 407,145 361,093 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