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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

12

Money spent without competition

41.47 Mn.

Average spent per lot

3.46 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1087453 lot 1 Lot title: bluzon (barbati/femei) INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI ROMANE CUI: 4453144
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811200-4 licitatie deschisa 2022–2024 8 19,714,286 37,091,282 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1081241 lot 5 Lot title: impermeabil pentru ploaie barbati/femei INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI ROMANE CUI: 4453144
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811200-4 licitatie deschisa 2022 3 14,882,353 1,453,827 See the tender and its contracts
RFDA001543 implicit lot DELGAZ GRID SA CUI: 10976687
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
18143000-3 licitatie restransa 2025 1 — 918,750 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1144990 lot 4 Lot title: scurta cu guler si mesada detasabila UNITATEA DE LOGISTICA SI ACHIZITII CENTRALIZATE A POLITIEI PENITENCIARE CUI: 4193079
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 3 836,000 836,975 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140164 lot 5 Lot title: costum unic cu 2 pantaloni UNITATEA MILITARA 0854 FALTICENI CUI: 4244679
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 2 585,000 288,482 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1039015 lot 4 Lot title: costum izoterm (uniforma de serviciu) MI-UM 0251F BUCURESTI CUI: 4192782
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,225,000 234,696 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140164 lot 7 Lot title: scurta cu mesada pentru instructie UNITATEA MILITARA 0854 FALTICENI CUI: 4244679
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 2 585,000 231,641 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140164 lot 8 Lot title: camasa bluza pentru instructie UNITATEA MILITARA 0854 FALTICENI CUI: 4244679
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 2 336,000 165,692 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1061979 lot 5 Lot title: tesatura combat UNITATEA MILITARA 02296 CUI: 4221101
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
19211100-9 procedura simplificata 2021 1 113,212 108,493 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1155843 lot 4 Lot title: bluzon SCOALA DE AGENTI DE POLITIE SEPTIMIU MURESAN CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 16665051
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
18230000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 262,856 108,240 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140164 lot 4 Lot title: sapca completa de instructie vara UNITATEA MILITARA 0854 FALTICENI CUI: 4244679
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
35811300-5 licitatie deschisa 2025–2026 2 65,000 32,054 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1061979 lot 4 Lot title: tercot kaki, 1.5m UNITATEA MILITARA 02296 CUI: 4221101
VLADOOR SMART SRL CUI: 42115227
19240000-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 894 857 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