Single bid received (R018)

Only one tenderer submitted a bid.

Methodology

A contracting process is flagged if the number of tenderers is 1 and the procurement method is competitive (/tender/procurementMethod is ‘open’ or ‘selective’).

Example

The Ministry of Education publishes an open opportunity and receives a single bid.

Why is this a red flag?

In a competitive procedure, a lack of competition might correspond to a suppression of competition and can represent the ideal outcome for a corrupt buyer and pre-determined bidder.

Based on “Single bidder” in An Objective Corruption Risk Index Using Public Procurement Data.

Output

The indicator’s value is always 1.0.

Configuration

All configuration is optional.

To override the default competitive procurement methods, add to your settings file, as a pipe-separated list, for example:

[R018]
procurement_methods = open|selective # default

Demonstration

Input

{"ocid":"F","tender":{"numberOfTenderers":1,"procurementMethod":"open"}}

Output

$ ocdscardinal indicators --settings docs/examples/settings.ini --no-meta docs/examples/R/018.jsonl
{"OCID":{"F":{"R018":1.0}}}