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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

2.20 Mn.

Average spent per lot

182,997 RON

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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
SCNA1136609 implicit lot UNITATEA MILITARA 02415 CUI: 4183318
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 procedura simplificata 2026 1 — 413,220 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1131722 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA CUI: 4553380
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
38520000-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 326,561 326,560 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1029060 lot 5 Lot title: lot 5 scanner digital cu masa plana a0 UNITATEA MILITARA 02415 CUI: 4183318
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 procedura simplificata 2019 1 288,800 288,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1147805 lot 16 Lot title: lot 16 echipamente pentru digitalizare scanere UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI CUI: 4305849
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
32580000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 192,941 192,940 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1010711 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 sistem digitizare documente legate prin scanare format 2x a3 + UNITATEA MILITARA 02415 CUI: 4183318
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
32260000-3 procedura simplificata 2018 1 172,437 172,350 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060335 implicit lot BIBLIOTECA ACADEMIEI ROMANE CUI: 4283414
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 170,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1169881 lot 6 Lot title: lot 6 - furnizare dotari si echipamente it pentru biblioteca i.g. sbiera suceava, constand in scanner documente legate JUDETUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244512
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
38520000-6 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 171,261 169,500 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1076113 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4288381
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30232000-4 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 148,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1157814 lot 9 Lot title: complet solutie scanare pentru digitalizarea dosarelor (sistem pentru digitalizarea dosarelor) UNITATEA MILITARA 02460 CUI: 4406096
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 123,250 123,250 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1130443 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1- sistem de scanare profesional a2 documente legate gen: carti, dosare, registre, bibliorafturi UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI CUI: 4266570
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 110,689 110,688 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1136984 lot 2 Lot title: lot 2 - scaner ocr carti UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI CUI: 4505502
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
38520000-6 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 71,500 71,450 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1135752 implicit lot DIRECTIA GENERALA REGIONALA A FINANTELOR PUBLICE CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4426336
ALFASOFT SA CUI: 7507206
30216110-0 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 10,084 10,000 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