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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 The offers received on a lot are the unacceptable, non-compliant and admissible ones, added up; withdrawn ones are not counted.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
CAN1094647 lot 1 Lot title: lot i: produse panificatie JUDETUL ILFOV CUI: 4192545
AGROSEMCU SRL CUI: 15501204
15811000-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 4,293,878 4,293,878 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1005957 implicit lot DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI - BIHOR CUI: 17091429 85311100-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2018 1 4,281,120 4,281,120 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1159088 lot 1 Lot title: lot 1 - sistem management laborator patologie JUDETUL BRASOV CUI: 4384150 33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 4,276,331 4,276,331 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1147580 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SF CUVIOASA PARASCHEVA GALATI CUI: 3347072 Association of 2 companies
CONNECTIONS CONSULT SA CUI: 17753763
72212517-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 4,271,624 4,271,624 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1115952 implicit lot SOCIETATEA ELECTROCENTRALE CRAIOVA SA CUI: 46943133
MINPREST SERV SA CUI: 14814483
79620000-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 4,262,860 4,262,860 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1100825 implicit lot AVIOANE CRAIOVA SA CUI: 2326144
APEL LASER SRL CUI: 15595373
42942200-3 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 4,200,000 4,200,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1019767 lot 3 Lot title: lot 3: autospeciala de deszapezire pda (cu plug, perie si autosuflanta) - 2 bucati JUDETUL BRASOV CUI: 4384150
ATSA INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 17047970
34143000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2019 1 4,200,000 4,200,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1158351 implicit lot SPITALUL ORASENESC DETA CUI: 2503408
LIAMED SRL CUI: 10188824
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 4,192,258 4,192,258 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1100052 implicit lot REGIA AUTONOMA AEROPORTUL ORADEA CUI: 73452
HELVE AVIATECH SRL CUI: 27562973
34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 4,185,910 4,185,910 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1146584 implicit lot CET GOVORA SA CUI: 10102377 Association of 2 companies
BICA SRL CUI: 6428635
45112000-5 licitatie deschisa 2 2025 1 4,179,250 4,179,250 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
CAN1088898 implicit lot SPITALUL CLINIC CF NR2 BUCURESTI CUI: 4505316
PAPAPOSTOLOU SRL CUI: 22318421
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2022 1 4,135,000 4,135,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1157929 lot 2 Lot title: computer tomograf SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA PENTRU COPII LOUIS TURCANU TIMISOARA CUI: 4548538
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE SRL CUI: 36153005
33115000-9 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 4,103,528 4,103,528 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1037446 lot 2 Lot title: incubatoare neonatale inchise/deschise (25 buc.) JUDETUL CONSTANTA CUI: 2981739
DUCOS TRADING SRL CUI: 21946690
33152000-0 licitatie deschisa 2 2020 1 4,072,750 4,072,750 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1169798 lot 5 Lot title: simulatoare ati UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE CRAIOVA CUI: 10815397 38970000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 4,070,000 4,070,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1064787 implicit lot DOMENIUL PUBLIC NAPOCA SA CUI: 201233
STRASSE CONSTRUCT SRL CUI: 28191377
60181000-0 licitatie deschisa 2 2021 1 4,030,000 4,030,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1169798 lot 8 Lot title: simulatoare proceduri de angiografie UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE CRAIOVA CUI: 10815397 38970000-5 licitatie deschisa 1 2026 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1145027 implicit lot CENTRUL NATIONAL DE POLITICI SI EVALUARE IN EDUCATIE CUI: 42470121 Association of 2 companies
ASCENDIA SA CUI: 21482859
71356200-0 licitatie deschisa 1 2025 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1129699 implicit lot JUDETUL BOTOSANI CUI: 3372955 34144510-6 licitatie deschisa 1 2024 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1109402 lot 2 Lot title: autospeciala compacta pentru curatat pista cu plug, perie si turbosuflanta AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MARAMURES RA CUI: 2944544 34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1109402 lot 3 Lot title: autospeciala pentru curatat pista cu plug, perie rotativa si turbosuflanta AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MARAMURES RA CUI: 2944544 34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1059189 lot 1 Lot title: lotul 1. sediul central oradea- valoare estimata: - 4.000.000,00 lei, fara tva COMPANIA DE APA ORADEA SA CUI: 54760
LUKOIL ROMANIA SRL CUI: 10547022
09134200-9 licitatie deschisa 2 2021 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1055404 implicit lot RAJA SA CUI: 1890420
DIALEX CANADA SRL CUI: 6114306
60182000-7 licitatie deschisa 1 2021 1 4,000,000 4,000,000 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1067084 lot 3 Lot title: ecograf SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA SFIOAN CUI: 4204178
ADG MEDICAL SUPPLY SRL CUI: 30702848
33100000-1 licitatie deschisa 1 2021 1 3,991,597 3,991,597 See the tender and its contracts
CAN1105751 lot 2 Lot title: autospeciala curatare suprafete de miscare aeroportuare si colectare fod, 1 buc SOCIETATEA NATIONALA AEROPORTUL INTERNATIONAL MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU-CONSTANTA SA CUI: 11212645
ATSA INDUSTRY SRL CUI: 17047970
34960000-4 licitatie deschisa 1 2023 1 3,964,370 3,964,370 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