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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

71

Money spent without competition

210.52 Mn.

Average spent per lot

2.97 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1031841 implicit lot PARCHETUL DE PE LINGA INALTA CURTE DE CASATIE SI JUSTITIE CUI: 4364748 48900000-7 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 44,138,108 44,136,987
CAN1110852 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL TARGU MURES CUI: 4322823 Association of 2 companies 45000000-7 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 41,579,431 40,167,820
CAN1081139 implicit lot AGENTIA DE PLATI SI INTERVENTIE PENTRU AGRICULTURA CUI: 16517187 48820000-2 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 14,734,584 14,650,000
CAN1088573 implicit lot METROREX SA CUI: 13863739 Association of 2 companies 72611000-6 licitatie deschisa 2022–2025 4 7,980,000 7,957,200
CAN1022541 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE ADMINISTRARE A INFRASTRUCTURII RUTIERE SA CUI: 16054368 48820000-2 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 7,500,000 7,496,500
CAN1112441 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL SLOBOZIA CUI: 4365352 Association of 2 companies
LOGIC IT CONSULT SRL CUI: 16874031
48000000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 7,381,683 7,128,153
CAN1052038 implicit lot SOCIETATEA DE PRODUCERE A ENERGIEI ELECTRICE IN HIDROCENTRALE HIDROELECTRICA SA CUI: 13267213 48821000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 6,580,000 6,487,619
CAN1042908 implicit lot INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI DE FRONTIERA CUI: 4193222 35125110-0 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 8,359,750 6,442,313
CAN1074394 lot 1 INSPECTORATUL GENERAL PENTRU IMIGRARI CUI: 22084517 30233310-7 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 7,203,180 6,172,627
CAN1072252 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4505502 Association of 2 companies
TEMA ENERGY SA CUI: 14389359
48820000-2 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 6,126,181 6,126,180
CAN1029882 lot 1 DISTRIBUTIE ENERGIE ELECTRICA ROMANIA SA CUI: 14476722 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 2020–2022 13 7,111,720 5,842,333
CAN1046689 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 Association of 3 companies 72315100-7 licitatie deschisa 2020–2022 5 1,304,000 5,661,036
CAN1058303 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE GAZE NATURALE ROMGAZ SA CUI: 14056826 30233141-1 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 5,280,000 5,273,000
CAN1107817 implicit lot PARCHETUL DE PE LINGA INALTA CURTE DE CASATIE SI JUSTITIE CUI: 4364748 Association of 2 companies
INVERGENT SA CUI: 31021453
72212422-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 4,207,190 3,672,143
CAN1165407 lot 1 MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 48732000-8 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 3,021,032 2,998,000
CAN1153288 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA BUCURESTI CUI: 4433767 30236000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,809,096 2,799,440
CAN1114573 implicit lot INSPECTORATUL GENERAL PENTRU IMIGRARI CUI: 22084517 32420000-3 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,350,000 2,337,777
CAN1155298 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA IMPRIMERIA NATIONALA SA CUI: 2779625 30211400-5 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 2,100,000 2,098,777
CAN1024189 lot 3 MINISTERUL CULTURII CUI: 4192812 30216110-0 licitatie deschisa 2019 1 2,005,090 1,962,595
CAN1033659 implicit lot AGENTIA DE PLATI SI INTERVENTIE PENTRU AGRICULTURA CUI: 16517187 72611000-6 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 1,872,000 1,836,375
CAN1108829 implicit lot AUTORITATEA NATIONALA PENTRU PROTECTIA DREPTURILOR PERSOANELOR CU DIZABILITATI CUI: 45718117 48422000-2 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 1,746,217 1,740,000
CAN1028921 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA IMPRIMERIA NATIONALA SA CUI: 2779625 79800000-2 licitatie deschisa 2020–2023 5 4,032,000 1,692,000
CAN1055390 implicit lot MINISTERUL AFACERILOR EXTERNE CUI: 4266863 30236200-4 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 1,419,630 1,419,620
CAN1072889 implicit lot AUTORITATEA NATIONALA PENTRU ADMINISTRARE SI REGLEMENTARE IN COMUNICATII CUI: 14751237 48311000-1 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,400,000 1,398,750
CAN1051673 implicit lot INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI DE FRONTIERA CUI: 4193222 Association of 2 companies
LOGIC COMPUTER SRL CUI: 8807295
48820000-2 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 1,395,750 1,380,930

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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