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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

21

Money spent on the estimate

14.07 Mn.

Offers received, on average

1.10

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 The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up; withdrawn ones are not counted.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
CAN1140919 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3 - echipament de imagistica cu rezonanta magnetica SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ILFOV CUI: 14989140
PHM COMSERV SRL CUI: 21314065
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa accelerata 2 2025 1 7,600,000 7,600,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1024439 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFAPOSTOL ANDREI GALATI CUI: 3126853
DTL MEDICAL SRL CUI: 22444730
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2019 1 4,159,650 4,159,650 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1164959 lot 6 Lot title: linie de videoendoscopie interventionala hdtv SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SF DOCTORI COSMA SI DAMIAN RADAUTI CUI: 4327367
VAVIAN TRADING SRL CUI: 4281324
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 504,000 504,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1125019 lot 1 Lot title: sistem complet de artroscopie UMNR02175 CUI: 4301383
SPORTMED SYSTEMS SRL CUI: 29807808
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2025 1 450,000 450,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140919 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - echipamente chirurgicale SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA ILFOV CUI: 14989140 33162000-3 licitatie deschisa accelerata 1 2024 1 350,000 350,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1068552 lot 1 Lot title: sistem de brate mobile cu suport pentru monitoare medicale UNITATEA MILITARA NR02482 CUI: 4364594 33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2022 1 293,984 293,984 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1101426 lot 1 Lot title: trusa instrumente fess SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DEJ CUI: 4305997 33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2024 1 170,000 170,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1082654 lot 1 Lot title: lot1. sistem endourologie SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SF DOCTORI COSMA SI DAMIAN RADAUTI CUI: 4327367 33162000-3 procedura simplificata 2 2023 1 152,100 152,100 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1125019 lot 2 Lot title: motor universal chirurgie ortopedica UMNR02175 CUI: 4301383
SPORTMED SYSTEMS SRL CUI: 29807808
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2025 1 100,000 100,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1093194 lot 3 Lot title: lot3. trusa endourologie cu cistoscop si uretrom -1 bucata SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SF DOCTORI COSMA SI DAMIAN RADAUTI CUI: 4327367 33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2023 1 92,600 92,600 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1164959 lot 1 Lot title: ureteroscop flexibil -1 bucata SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SF DOCTORI COSMA SI DAMIAN RADAUTI CUI: 4327367
N & B SRL CUI: 18338870
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 50,000 50,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1029839 implicit lot SPITAL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BIHOR CUI: 4208498
IC MEDICAL LOGISTIC SRL CUI: 32891166
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2020 1 33,304 33,304 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1158368 lot 4 Lot title: lotul_4 - lupe cu sistem galileean chirurgical - lupe prismatice chirurgicale UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE VICTOR BABES TIMISOARA CUI: 4269215 33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 25,586 25,586 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1027131 lot 32 Lot title: lame shaver parti moi compatibile consola stryker UNITATEA MILITARA 02558 CUI: 4269134
STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2019 1 19,000 19,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1027131 lot 33 Lot title: lame shaver stryker pentru burghiere UNITATEA MILITARA 02558 CUI: 4269134
STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2019 1 19,000 19,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1150237 lot 8 Lot title: set punctie biopsie prostatica SPITALUL UNIVERSITAR DE URGENTA BUCURESTI CUI: 4283570
RAMIDO STAFF SRL CUI: 26054535
33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 17,000 17,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1073466 lot 2 Lot title: trusa chirurgie cervicala orl UMNR02175 CUI: 4301383
RAFI MEDICAL SRL CUI: 9245101
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2022 1 15,000 15,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1130535 lot 2 Lot title: telescop rezectie urologie UMNR02175 CUI: 4301383 33162000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 13,000 13,000 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1089271 lot 6 Lot title: manipulator uterin SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DEJ CUI: 4305997
X LAB SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 14600285
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2023 1 6,700 6,700 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1027131 lot 30 Lot title: lame motor oscilant compatibil sistem stryker UNITATEA MILITARA 02558 CUI: 4269134
STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2019 1 450 450 See the tender and its contracts
SCNA1027131 lot 31 Lot title: lama motor oscilant model tps stryker UNITATEA MILITARA 02558 CUI: 4269134
STRYKER ROMANIA SRL CUI: 12704530
33162000-3 procedura simplificata 1 2019 1 400 400 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