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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

224.99 Mn.

Average spent per lot

16.07 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1050777 implicit lot COMPANIA DE APA SOMES SA CUI: 201217 Association of 5 companies
CASREP SRL CUI: 3206081
LUCY STAR SRL CUI: 4036970
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
TEOVAL & CO SRL CUI: 30516918
45232150-8 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 72,758,630 71,982,194 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1098673 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL IASI CUI: 4541580 Association of 4 companies
CONEST SA CUI: 1959695
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
INSTAL CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 11076381
IPCT INSTALATII SRL CUI: 14875650
45231111-6 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 56,819,190 61,347,561 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1049066 implicit lot AQUATIM SA CUI: 3041480 Association of 4 companies
LUCY STAR SRL CUI: 4036970
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
TEOVAL & CO SRL CUI: 30516918
45232400-6 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 42,274,577 50,919,651 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1138923 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - extinderea retelelor de distributie a apei in secuieni COMPANIA REGIONALA DE APA BACAU SA CUI: 27429315
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
45231100-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 10,473,877 10,425,677 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1111949 implicit lot COMUNA DULCESTI CUI: 2613702 Association of 2 companies
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
ARTCON WAY SRL CUI: 45894954
45232400-6 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 8,885,056 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1126217 implicit lot COMUNA ION CREANGA CUI: 2613753
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
45232400-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 8,734,830 8,734,710 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1138923 lot 5 Lot title: lot 5 extinderea retelelor de distributie a apei in saucesti COMPANIA REGIONALA DE APA BACAU SA CUI: 27429315
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
45231100-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 6,322,258 6,259,070 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1127059 lot 18 Lot title: lotul 18: um01221 timisoara - lucrari de reparatii la reteaua termica UNITATEA MILITARA 02032 CUI: 14619075 Association of 2 companies
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
NRG TRANSCOM SRL CUI: 44787666
45453000-7 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,554,458 1,545,979 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1127059 lot 6 Lot title: lotul 6: um01518 prundu-bargaului - reparatii curente la reteaua termica UNITATEA MILITARA 02032 CUI: 14619075 Association of 2 companies
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
NRG TRANSCOM SRL CUI: 44787666
45453000-7 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 1,367,979 1,411,555 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1072564 implicit lot APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
45231113-0 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 1,342,306 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1075290 implicit lot APAVITAL SA CUI: 1959768
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
45231113-0 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 1,049,625 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1074836 implicit lot UTILITATI PUBLICE CERNAVODA SRL CUI: 27477177
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
44163120-7 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 838,094 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1053421 implicit lot UZINA TERMOELECTRICA PRODUCTION GIURGIU SA CUI: 41227761
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
44163140-3 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 189,465 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1086544 implicit lot THERMOENERGY GROUP SA CUI: 33620670
HIDROTERM SA CUI: 5683613
44160000-9 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 56,985 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