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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

40

Money spent without competition

31.54 Mn.

Average spent per lot

788,428 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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

Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Year # Estimated value Spent
CAN1098999 implicit lot MINISTERUL MEDIULUI APELOR SI PADURILOR CUI: 16335444 34711200-6 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 16,834,175 16,680,000
CAN1087188 lot 4 UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI CUI: 4701126 34223300-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,367,808 2,367,685
CAN1081836 lot 1 UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS CUI: 3127522 38430000-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 2,322,712 2,195,000
CAN1089377 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA PETROL GAZE PLOIESTI CUI: 2844790 38400000-9 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 1,177,014 1,177,000
CAN1170324 implicit lot INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD CUI: 9113623 38434560-9 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 1,124,666 1,124,650
CAN1105562 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS CUI: 3127522 38344000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 710,469 710,353
CAN1096528 lot 1 UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI CUI: 4701126 38430000-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 541,160 541,081
SCNA1027790 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA NUCLEARELECTRICA SA CUI: 10874881 38432100-3 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 511,000
CAN1087188 lot 3 UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA IASI CUI: 4701126 34100000-8 licitatie deschisa 2022 1 466,410 466,386
CAN1144624 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 50411000-9 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 420,018 460,480
CAN1136964 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 333,400 366,000
SCNA1128480 implicit lot TERMOFICARE ORADEA SA CUI: 31952982 71630000-3 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 341,475
SCNA1028863 implicit lot INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU PROTECTIA MUNCII -INCDPM ALEXANDRU DARABONT - BUCURESTI CUI: 1558391 38434560-9 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 314,000
SCNA1096289 implicit lot TERMOFICARE ORADEA SA CUI: 31952982 71630000-3 procedura simplificata 2023 1 — 284,674
CAN1098066 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 50411000-9 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 243,990 243,984
CAN1132058 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 198,588 217,832
CAN1066163 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2021 1 213,751 213,725
CAN1156976 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 191,522 210,465
CAN1038599 implicit lot SOCIETATEA COMPLEXUL ENERGETIC OLTENIA SA CUI: 30267310 50411000-9 licitatie deschisa 2020 1 207,115 207,035
CAN1174505 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI CUI: 4305849 38000000-5 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 206,846 206,800
SCNA1061285 implicit lot TERMOFICARE ORADEA SA CUI: 31952982 71630000-3 procedura simplificata 2021 1 — 206,398
CAN1170325 implicit lot INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD CUI: 9113623 38432000-2 licitatie deschisa 2026 1 201,594 201,500
CAN1106256 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 180,536 198,588
CAN1122891 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA DE TRANSPORT GAZE NATURALE TRANSGAZ SA CUI: 13068733 50411000-9 licitatie deschisa 2024 1 198,694 198,496
SCNA1039119 implicit lot ELECTROCENTRALE BUCURESTI SA CUI: 15189596 50410000-2 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 191,890

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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