Tender lots with a single bidder

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

Money spent without competition

167.55 Mn.

Average spent per lot

18.62 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.

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.
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.
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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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.
The lot is flagged when it received a single offer.
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.
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Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1167265 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE BRASOV CUI: 15509275	Association of 3 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 EUROPAN PROD SA CUI: 6833760 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001	45234116-2	licitatie deschisa	2026	1	84,832,066	84,809,868	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1122323 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE IASI CUI: 15670513	Association of 5 companies ISPCF SA CUI: 1566866 CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001 PRIMA CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 14530430 PRO AMIS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 25730574	45453000-7	licitatie deschisa	2024	1	33,989,017	37,041,640	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1085125 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI-SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE CONSTANTA CUI: 15855872	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001	50225000-8	licitatie deschisa	2022–2024	5	12,555,137	12,405,393	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1101939 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE IASI CUI: 15670513	Association of 3 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001 PRO AMIS CONSULTING SRL CUI: 25730574	45112500-0	licitatie deschisa	2023	1	9,393,617	12,404,535	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1144818 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE IASI CUI: 15670513	CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954	45234116-2	licitatie deschisa	2025	1	5,550,383	5,523,167	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1100509 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE IASI CUI: 15670513	CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954	63712310-9	licitatie deschisa	2024	1	4,130,174	4,726,791	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1121825 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE IASI CUI: 15670513	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001	45234116-2	licitatie deschisa	2024	1	4,607,899	4,510,568	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1130601 lot 7 Lot title: consolidare suprastructura cf statia coldau linia 4 directa km 19+039-20+500	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE CLUJ CUI: 15586731	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001	45234100-7	licitatie deschisa	2024	1	3,488,235	3,990,480	See the tender and its contracts
CAN1142451 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI-SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE CONSTANTA CUI: 15855872	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCT ING SRL CUI: 5775954 DARIA CONST SRL CUI: 6852001	50225000-8	licitatie deschisa	2025	1	5,980,092	2,138,973	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

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