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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

19,310

Money spent on the estimate

5.50 Bn.

Offers received, on average

1.12

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 The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up; withdrawn ones are not counted.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
CAN1151098 lot 5 Lot title: truse de detectare SOCIETATEA PENTRU SERVICII DE MENTENANTA A RETELEI ELECTRICE DE TRANSPORT SMART SA CUI: 14232728
ENEROPTIM SRL CUI: 13726065
38300000-8 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 2,070,750 2,070,750 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1130978 lot 6 Lot title: dispozitiv/echipament mobil, automat, de decontaminare de nivel inalt a sondelor cu ultrasunet UNITATEA MILITARA NR02482 CUI: 4364594 33191000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,070,000 2,070,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1167013 implicit lot SOCIETATEA COMPLEXUL ENERGETIC VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 30859649
GEROM INTERNATIONAL SA CUI: 6858926
42410000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 2,043,800 2,043,800 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1168714 lot 1 Lot title: dispozitive si circuite electronice UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA CUI: 4244423
ROMTEK ELECTRONICS SRL CUI: 10274437
38900000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 2,042,000 2,042,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1073098 lot 2 Lot title: aparat radiologie digital cu 2 posturi , echipament radiologic digital mobil si ecograf complet echipat cu toate sondele SPITALUL MUNICIPAL SACELE CUI: 4317665 Association of 2 companies
KLEVIS GRAFI DESIGN SRL CUI: 18756210
PAPAPOSTOLOU SRL CUI: 22318421
33111000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2021 1 2,041,798 2,041,798 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1007292 implicit lot JUDETUL CALARASI CUI: 4294030 34144200-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 2,034,000 2,034,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1122275 implicit lot SOCIETATEA COMPLEXUL ENERGETIC VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 30859649 71300000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,021,901 2,021,901 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1105434 lot 3 Lot title: lotul 3 - secventiere INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE IN SILVICULTURA MARIN DRACEA CUI: 34638446
ANTISEL RO SRL CUI: 27040635
33696500-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 2,017,670 2,017,670 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1146396 lot 19 Lot title: lot 19-h mangalia REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR - ROMSILVA DIRECTIA DE CRESTERE EXPLOATARE SI AMELIORARE A CABALINELOR RA CUI: 41228341
NAL-VUAP SRL CUI: 15068624
77110000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 2,013,500 2,013,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1124474 implicit lot COMPANIA NATIONALA DE CAI FERATE CFR SA BUCURESTI SUCURSALA REGIONALA DE CAI FERATE TIMISOARA CUI: 15662430
GDO-MOV IMPEX SRL CUI: 7686330
45221112-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,012,368 2,012,368 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1118358 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL GALATI CUI: 3814810 Association of 2 companies
ESRI ROMANIA SRL CUI: 11717575
FIDA SOLUTIONS SRL CUI: 15974040
72267000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 2,006,910 2,006,910 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1171162 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - cromatografie de lichide, cromatografie de ioni si electroforeza capilara UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA FARMACIE STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE GEORGE EMIL PALADE DIN TARGU MURES CUI: 4322742
ALTIUM INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 14125527
38000000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 2,006,700 2,006,700 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1124626 implicit lot SPITAL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BIHOR CUI: 4208498
DIAMEDIX IMPEX SA CUI: 8529458
38000000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,006,235 2,006,235 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113969 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA TARGU MURES CUI: 4323209
PIXELDATA SRL CUI: 16381432
30236200-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 2,004,288 2,004,288 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1126731 implicit lot SOCIETATEA COMPLEXUL ENERGETIC VALEA JIULUI SA CUI: 30859649
GEROM INTERNATIONAL SA CUI: 6858926
44462000-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,001,810 2,001,810 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1173574 lot 10 Lot title: upgrade la instalatia imagistica a linac -ului elekta synergy SPITALUL CLINIC COLTEA CUI: 4192960 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1135387 implicit lot UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA FARMACIE STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE GEORGE EMIL PALADE DIN TARGU MURES CUI: 4322742
THREE PHARM SRL CUI: 26361386
33168100-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1125363 implicit lot MUNICIPIUL CLUJ-NAPOCA CUI: 4305857
WIND TECHNOLOGIES SRL CUI: 14114110
30144200-2 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113006 implicit lot SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA VALCEA CUI: 2540589
DTL MEDICAL SRL CUI: 22444730
33115000-9 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1099931 implicit lot JUDETUL TULCEA CUI: 4321607 72265000-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1054242 lot 24 Lot title: aparat de receptie si sortare probe SPITALUL CLINIC BOLI INFECTIOASE CUI: 4485715
ROCHE ROMANIA SRL CUI: 17551047
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2021 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1021426 implicit lot SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DRCONSTANTIN OPRIS CUI: 3694594
DTL MEDICAL SRL CUI: 22444730
33111720-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2019 1 2,000,000 2,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1139317 lot 7 Lot title: linie automata completa de genomica pentru examinari real time - polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) si next generation sequencing (ngs) SPITALUL JUDETEAN DE URGENTA DRCONSTANTIN OPRIS CUI: 3694594
ALTIUM INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 14125527
33190000-8 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 1,992,979 1,992,979 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1159997 lot 16 Lot title: echipamente radiologie JUDETUL BACAU CUI: 5057580
VIVAS INTERNATIONAL SRL CUI: 43442162
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 1,988,000 1,988,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1097464 lot 2 Lot title: tractor cu cositoare pentru intretinerea suprafetelor aeroportuare inierbate si freza de zapada JUDETUL BRASOV CUI: 4384150
ATSA INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 17047970
16700000-2 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 1,985,000 1,985,000 See the tender and its contracts

451-475 of 19310 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
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