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

155.67 Mn.

Average spent per lot

11.12 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 Withdrawn offers are not counted.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Single bidder: one offer received on the lot, counting unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible offers together; withdrawn offers are not counted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
CAN1107310 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605	Association of 4 companies INDUSTRY TRANSILVAN SRL CUI: 529690 CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827 BAUMEISTER SRL CUI: 11826785 PLANSHOW SRL CUI: 33168397	45212313-3	licitatie deschisa	2023	1	77,561,322	62,469,735	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1087520 implicit lot	COMPANIA NATIONALA DE INVESTITII CNI SA CUI: 14273221	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827 SOCIETATE MIXTA ROMANO-GERMANA DE PROIECTARE SI PRODUCTIE V & K SRL CUI: 2566724	45200000-9	procedura simplificata	2023	1	—	21,963,868	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1122693 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45321000-3	procedura simplificata	2025	1	—	19,687,443	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1070668 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605	Association of 2 companies CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827 BAUMEISTER SRL CUI: 11826785	45214220-8	procedura simplificata	2022	1	—	15,102,041	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1077412 implicit lot	INSPECTORATUL DE POLITIE JUDETEAN COVASNA CUI: 4202118	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45216110-8	procedura simplificata	2022	1	—	8,861,809	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1068473 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL TARGU SECUIESC CUI: 4201813	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45210000-2	procedura simplificata	2022	1	—	8,611,868	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1074250 implicit lot	AGENTIA NATIONALA PENTRU LOCUINTE CUI: 11795581	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45211000-9	procedura simplificata	2022	1	—	5,824,667	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1029514 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL TARGU SECUIESC CUI: 4201813	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45213140-6	procedura simplificata	2019	1	—	3,318,278	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1033059 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL SFANTU GHEORGHE CUI: 4404605	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45213314-7	procedura simplificata	2020	1	—	2,490,370	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1111080 implicit lot	COMUNA GHELINTA CUI: 4201945	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45222110-3	procedura simplificata	2024	1	—	2,423,931	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1041552 implicit lot	MUNICIPIUL TARGU SECUIESC CUI: 4201813	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45210000-2	procedura simplificata	2020	1	—	2,123,060	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1098936 implicit lot	ORASUL COVASNA CUI: 4404613	Association of 3 companies CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827 ELECTROCONSTRUCTIA ELCO SRL CUI: 3837813 GAS SYSTEMS COMPANY SRL CUI: 9230640	45332000-3	procedura simplificata	2024	1	—	1,521,878	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1116597 implicit lot	COMUNA SANZIENI CUI: 4201821	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45210000-2	procedura simplificata	2025	1	—	653,208	See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1087255 implicit lot	HYDROKOV SA CUI: 8574327	CONSTRUCTII CONICO SRL CUI: 544827	45111291-4	procedura simplificata	2023	1	—	617,387	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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