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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

204.91 Mn.

Average spent per lot

13.66 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1105547 implicit lot APA PROD SA CUI: 14071095 Association of 3 companies
VESTRA INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 15969249
AWE INFRA SRL CUI: 35355090
45232100-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 100,881,125 100,859,291 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1125334 implicit lot APA PROD SA CUI: 14071095 Association of 4 companies
INSTALATII GEVIS SRL CUI: 5452945
PROMETAL LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 32471561
ECOAPA DESIGN SRL CUI: 35157017
45231300-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 34,162,938 33,788,857 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1168877 implicit lot APA SERV VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 7392416 Association of 3 companies
ECOAPA DESIGN SRL CUI: 35157017
45232430-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 22,231,454 22,184,947 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1108329 implicit lot COMUNA ZAVOI CUI: 3227335 Association of 2 companies
CALORIA SRL CUI: 247885
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 19,510,514 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1069966 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL LUPENI CUI: 4375046 Association of 2 companies
CIPRI RADU SRL CUI: 23699871
45211341-1 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 11,251,812 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1004716 implicit lot COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 7,221,545 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1019317 implicit lot COMUNA PUI CUI: 4374059 45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 5,448,274 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1168130 implicit lot ORASUL HATEG CUI: 5453878 Association of 2 companies
ALFADAR DANESCU SRL CUI: 9085990
15897300-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 4,184,962 2,726,699 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1020163 implicit lot COMUNA RACHITOVA CUI: 4521370 45233120-6 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 805,976 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1004161 implicit lot COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 45453000-7 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 657,861 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1024038 lot 2 Lot title: reabilitarea, modernizarea si dotare asezamant cultural din satul riu mic, comuna salasu de sus, judetul hunedoara COMUNA SALASU DE SUS CUI: 5453819 45210000-2 procedura simplificata 2019 1 397,230 397,215 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1016171 lot 2 Lot title: camin cultural din localitatea valcele bune COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 71200000-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 14,581 14,507 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1016171 lot 1 Lot title: camin cultural din localitatea valcele COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 71200000-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 14,581 14,507 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1016171 lot 3 Lot title: camin cultural din localitatea maceu COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 71200000-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 13,864 13,793 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1016171 lot 4 Lot title: camin cultural din localitatea plopi COMUNA BRETEA ROMANA CUI: 4521443 71200000-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 13,864 13,793 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