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High risk #07 Exact price match

Price matching the estimate exactly

Tender lots on which exactly the estimated sum was spent, to the leu.

The money spent on the lot is exactly the authority's estimated value, to the leu. With competition the price falls below the estimate, by amounts that vary from case to case; here many cases land right on the estimate. The estimate is public in the contract notice, though, so bidders know it: the likely explanation is not a leak, but that nobody had a reason to go below it.

Lots on the estimate

13

Money spent on the estimate

617,231 RON

Offers received, on average

1.31

Lots on the estimate by award year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

Money paid exactly at the estimate, by CPV group

The 10 largest CPV groups by value; the other 216 are added into a single tile.

Match rate against the number of offers received

The lot scale is logarithmic: the lots checked outnumber the flagged ones a hundred to one. Lots with no offer count in the data are left out.

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.
  2. Competitive procedures with publication are kept, as for #05, without framework agreements and without lots lacking an estimated value.
  3. A contract over several lots is split by estimated value, and the parts of one lot are added up across all years.
  4. The lot is flagged when the money spent and the estimated value, both rounded to the leu, are equal.
  5. Near misses are not flagged: on a large lot, a tenth of a percent is hundreds of thousands of lei. The anomaly is the bunching right on the estimate.
  6. The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up; withdrawn ones are not counted. The second view keeps the lots with at least two offers.

Thresholds

  • Exact match: the money spent on the lot and its estimated value, both rounded to the leu, are equal
  • Two views of the same table: every match, and only those with at least two offers
  • Only lots on which at least one ordinary or subsequent contract has been signed

Tenders with prior publication only, and money spent only. Framework agreements are left out: there the estimate is the agreement's ceiling, and a match means the agreement was used up, not a price. Lots without an estimated value cannot be checked.

The data holds at most 200 contracts per notice. Where a notice has more, the money from the missing contracts is absent, and the lot can look below the estimate.

The estimate is public, so bidders know it. An exact match does not prove a leak or collusion: it shows nobody had a reason to go below it. The signal is repetition (the same authority, the same winner) and above all the second view, where there was competition and the price still did not fall.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Price matching the estimate exactly
Notice and lot Contracting authority Winner CPV code Procedure type Offers Year # Estimated value Spent Tender
CAN1008622 lot 3 Lot title: sistem automat de colorare a sectiunilor SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 4 2018 1 146,768 146,768 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060745 lot 2 Lot title: platforma clinica avansata de monitorizare hemodidamica SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
CARDIOTECH SRL CUI: 41111260
33100000-1 procedura simplificata 1 2021 1 123,250 123,250 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 2 Lot title: procesator de tesuturi SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 96,271 96,271 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1136970 lot 1 Lot title: agitator de trombocite cu termostat SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
DIALAB SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 23818271
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 39,495 39,495 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 8 Lot title: microtom semi-automat SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 38,520 38,520 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 11 Lot title: microscop optic SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 2 2018 1 37,723 37,723 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 10 Lot title: statie completa de includere in parafina SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 36,800 36,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 1 Lot title: banc de pus in lucru, cu hota de laborator cu flux laminar, pentru histologie SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 33,869 33,869 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1060745 lot 1 Lot title: sistem semiautomat compact pentru determinari imunohematologice si compatibilitate SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
ROTEST SRL CUI: 13362371
33100000-1 procedura simplificata 1 2021 1 26,000 26,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 6 Lot title: trusa de autopsie SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 13,280 13,280 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1135815 lot 7 Lot title: dispozitiv masurare indice glezna brat SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
LIAMED SRL CUI: 10188824
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 12,150 12,150 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 5 Lot title: trusa instrumente anatomo -patologice SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 8,180 8,180 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008622 lot 4 Lot title: pompa de imbalsamare SPITALUL CLINIC NICOLAE MALAXA CUI: 4203938
TUNIC PROD SRL CUI: 3573061
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 4,925 4,925 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 and set the estimated value.
Winner
The companies that received the lot's money. 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. All have prior publication, so the estimate was public before the offers.
Offers
How many offers the lot drew. With one offer the match is easy to explain; from two up the figure is bold. The information sign: the count comes from the contract. A dash: the figure is missing from the data.
Year
The year of the lot's first contract. If contracts followed in later years, the span appears.
#
How many contracts were signed on the lot. Their total is compared with the estimate.
Estimated value
The value the authority estimated and published in the contract notice.
Spent
The money spent on the lot. It is the same figure as the estimate: that is the flagged case. The table is ordered by this column by default.
Tender
Opens the tender and its contracts, where the two figures can be checked.

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/pret-la-virgula
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/pret-la-virgula/cpv-spend
  • /api/v1/red-flags/pret-la-virgula/offers-spread

Open data and API