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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 The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up; withdrawn ones are not counted.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
CAN1131512 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA SFIOAN CUI: 4204178
VAVIAN TRADING SRL CUI: 4281324
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 6,200,000 6,200,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1006419 lot 2 Lot title: arhiva de reviste springer online journal archives ASOCIATIA UNIVERSITATILOR INSTITUTELOR DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE SI BIBLIOTECILOR CENTRALE UNIVERSITARE DIN ROMANIA - ANELIS PLUS CUI: 29489879
E-NFORMATION SRL CUI: 14159813
22212100-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 6,177,000 6,177,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1104744 lot 2 Lot title: traseu 002: ramnicu valcea-cazanesti-baile govora si traseu 003: ramnicu valcea-oltchim-baile govora JUDETUL VALCEA CUI: 2540929 Association of 2 companies
VILTRANS SRL CUI: 6428252
VILIANA EXPRES SRL CUI: 7370230
60112000-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 6,148,232 6,148,232 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1169798 lot 1 Lot title: platforma artroscopie si urologie UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE CRAIOVA CUI: 10815397 38970000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 6,100,000 6,100,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1071862 lot 3 Lot title: servicii de umplere butelii proprietatea unitatii sanitare SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA SFAPOSTOL ANDREI GALATI CUI: 3126853
LINDE GAZ ROMANIA SRL CUI: 8721959
98300000-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 6,022,500 6,022,500 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1109104 lot 1 Lot title: autospeciala de stins incendii de aeroport REGIA AUTONOMA AEROPORTUL TRANSILVANIA-TARGU MURES CUI: 4276000 34144210-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 6,013,844 6,013,844 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1111564 lot 4 Lot title: angiograf monoplan cu aplicatie cardiologie si monitorizare hemodinamica de inalta performanta SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA BRASOV CUI: 4384117
PHARMICS SRL CUI: 23200539
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 6,000,125 6,000,125 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113139 lot 3 Lot title: inchiriere cilindru terasamente pentru lucrarile de modernizare, intretinere si reparatie strazi DOMENIUL PUBLIC NAPOCA SA CUI: 201233
HASIM CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 22613324
45500000-2 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 6,000,000 6,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1093285 implicit lot AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MARAMURES RA CUI: 2944544 34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 6,000,000 6,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1031917 implicit lot RAJA SA CUI: 1890420
DIALEX CANADA SRL CUI: 6114306
60182000-7 licitatie deschisa 1 2020 1 6,000,000 6,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1014980 implicit lot RAJA SA CUI: 1890420
DIALEX CANADA SRL CUI: 6114306
60182000-7 licitatie deschisa 1 2019 1 6,000,000 6,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1017887 lot 3 Lot title: bazele de date clarivate analytics (wos, incites journal citation reports, derwent innovation index) ASOCIATIA UNIVERSITATILOR INSTITUTELOR DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE SI BIBLIOTECILOR CENTRALE UNIVERSITARE DIN ROMANIA - ANELIS PLUS CUI: 29489879
E-NFORMATION SRL CUI: 14159813
72320000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2019 1 5,935,600 5,935,600 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1140385 lot 2 Lot title: 2.lot nr.2 monitoare SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII MSCURIE CUI: 4183164
PAPAPOSTOLOU SRL CUI: 22318421
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 5,896,231 5,896,231 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1056951 lot 1 Lot title: echipamente rmn SPITALUL DE BOLI CRONICE SMEENI CUI: 4385457
CORTECH MED SRL CUI: 22088756
33113000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2021 1 5,879,200 5,879,200 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1048639 implicit lot REGISTRUL AUTO ROMAN RA CUI: 1590236 38540000-2 licitatie deschisa 1 2020 1 5,876,000 5,876,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1128441 lot 1 Lot title: camera hiperbara JUDETUL CLUJ CUI: 4288110
WINPHARMAMED SRL CUI: 32087030
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 2 2024 1 5,865,000 5,865,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1157904 lot 1 Lot title: lot1.servicii de intretinere tehnica (revizii si mentenanta) si reparatii curente autospeciale si utilaje aeroportuare SOCIETATEA NATIONALA AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU-CONSTANTA SA CUI: 11212645 Association of 2 companies
ATSA INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 17047970
50000000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 5,840,000 5,840,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1094283 implicit lot REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR ROMSILVA RA CUI: 1590120
IRUM SA CUI: 1235170
50110000-9 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 5,825,440 5,825,440 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1131976 implicit lot SOCIETATEA NATIONALA NUCLEARELECTRICA SA CUI: 10874881 73111000-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 5,809,964 5,809,964 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1113139 lot 9 Lot title: inchiriere excavator pe pneuri 18 tone pentru lucrarile de modernizare, intretinere si reparatie strazi DOMENIUL PUBLIC NAPOCA SA CUI: 201233
STRASSE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28191377
45500000-2 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 5,760,000 5,760,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1142692 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC JUDETEAN DE URGENTA TARGU MURES CUI: 4323209 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 5,753,700 5,753,700 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1119849 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 5,749,846 5,749,846 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1167010 lot 1 Lot title: laborator integrat de electrofiziologie INSTITUTUL DE BOLI CARDIOVASCULARE TIMISOARA CUI: 5189211 Association of 3 companies
SANTE INTERNATIONAL SA CUI: 3210015
MEDIST IMAGING & POC SRL CUI: 24205100
MEDICAL DEVICE STORE SRL CUI: 36765608
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 5,689,740 5,689,740 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1073859 implicit lot ORASUL BUHUSI CUI: 4535953 Association of 2 companies
DTL MEDICAL SRL CUI: 22444730
REGIO MED SRL CUI: 31388540
33111000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 5,595,000 5,595,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1008834 lot 1 Lot title: robot operator pentru chirurgie spinala SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PROF DR NICOLAE OBLU IASI CUI: 4540810
MEDTRONIC ROMANIA SRL CUI: 35182347
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 5,563,000 5,563,000 See the tender and its contracts

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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