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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

42

Money spent without competition

57.82 Mn.

Average spent per lot

1.38 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent
CAN1148315 implicit lot SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA JUDETEAN MURES CUI: 8089381 Association of 2 companies
POWER NET CONSULTING SRL CUI: 11864363
48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,829,366 2,821,944
CAN1147228 implicit lot SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA JUDETEAN BOTOSANI CUI: 7494238 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,829,285 2,821,652
CAN1150442 implicit lot SERVICIUL DE AMBULANTA JUDETULUI SUCEAVA CUI: 7409380 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,719,014 2,653,375
CAN1075786 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL FALTICENI CUI: 5432522 Association of 2 companies
TRENCADIS CORP SRL CUI: 20415754
72212517-6 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,454,838 2,432,642
CAN1144565 implicit lot DIRECTIA DE SANATATE PUBLICA CUI: 11321693 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,351,192 2,348,997
CAN1097716 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL DEJ CUI: 4349179 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,330,000 2,298,500
CAN1100151 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL HUNEDOARA CUI: 2127028 32570000-9 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,300,400 2,275,950
CAN1108391 implicit lot SECTORUL 2 AL MUNICIPIULUI BUCURESTI CUI: 4204038 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,294,900 2,269,000
CAN1151473 implicit lot INSTITUTUL DE MEDICINA LEGALA TIMISOARA CUI: 13713243 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,257,808 2,255,074
CAN1097133 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL FAGARAS CUI: 4384419 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,199,000 2,194,250
CAN1103154 implicit lot JUDETUL MARAMURES CUI: 3627315 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,173,100 2,147,000
CAN1100116 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL VATRA DORNEI CUI: 7467268 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,159,468 2,130,750
CAN1100198 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL FALTICENI CUI: 5432522 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,139,000 2,114,500
CAN1105397 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL VASLUI CUI: 3337532 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,040,000 2,010,170
CAN1094273 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CAMPULUNG MOLDOVENESC CUI: 4842400 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,083,850 1,996,000
CAN1071352 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL GHERLA CUI: 4349071 72262000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,059,500 1,991,606
CAN1084276 lot 2 MUNICIPIUL RESITA CUI: 3228764 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,965,000 1,956,817
CAN1057027 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL DEVA CUI: 4374393 72212517-6 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 1,964,000 1,925,034
CAN1100360 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL MORENI CUI: 4344597 72500000-0 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,865,520 1,841,250
CAN1147857 implicit lot DIRECTIA DE SANATATE PUBLICA JUDETEANA IASI CUI: 4981352 72262000-9 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,656,137 1,638,000
CAN1084276 lot 1 MUNICIPIUL RESITA CUI: 3228764 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,544,000 1,537,570
CAN1055091 lot 1 MUNICIPIUL VASLUI CUI: 3337532 48517000-5 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 1,512,540 1,484,977
CAN1141756 lot 1 ORASUL HATEG CUI: 5453878 30000000-9 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 1,433,900 1,417,750
CAN1139674 implicit lot COMUNA ARIESENI CUI: 4562419 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,428,745 1,399,912
CAN1105850 lot 1 MUNICIPIUL DOROHOI CUI: 4112945 48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,020,968 1,009,800

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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.
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