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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

13

Money spent without competition

329.28 Mn.

Average spent per lot

25.33 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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  • Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1097828 implicit lot AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL AVRAM IANCU CLUJ RA CUI: 2882425 Association of 3 companies
BOG ART SRL CUI: 17487
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45262800-9 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 225,647,874 239,498,466 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1038112 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA CUI: 4288306
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45262700-8 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 21,649,311 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1026524 implicit lot UM 02454 CUI: 5399442
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2019 1 — 14,509,055 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1145549 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45212224-2 licitatie deschisa 2025 1 11,705,311 12,994,217 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1125290 implicit lot UM 02454 CUI: 5399442 Association of 2 companies
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
POPP & ASOCIATII SRL CUI: 14770662
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2025 1 — 11,555,455 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1115240 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45200000-9 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 8,949,626 8,898,918 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1009267 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45232150-8 licitatie deschisa 2018 1 8,392,316 8,305,800 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1031449 lot 2 Lot title: lucrari de interventie/instalatii/utilaje, echipamente tehnologice si functionale care necesita montaj/organizare de santier UM 02454 CUI: 5399442
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2019 1 2,742,991 3,364,532 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1109838 implicit lot COMUNA BORS CUI: 4390526
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45262211-3 procedura simplificata 2024 1 — 2,902,506 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1117658 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA CUI: 4288306
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45262700-8 licitatie deschisa 2023 1 2,619,427 2,618,678 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1044829 implicit lot UM 02454 CUI: 5399442
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2020 1 — 1,672,360 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1069674 implicit lot UM 02454 CUI: 5399442
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2022 1 — 706,273 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1010299 implicit lot UM 02454 CUI: 5399442
ACI CLUJ SA CUI: 200513
45000000-7 procedura simplificata 2018 1 — 602,152 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