All except winning bid disqualified (R035)¶
Bids are disqualified if not submitted by the single tenderer of the winning bid.
See also
Methodology¶
A contracting process is flagged if:
Exactly one tenderer submitted one or more bids that are valid (i.e. qualified).
The tenderer of the valid bids and the suppliers of all active awards are the same.
At least 1 other tenderer submitted a bid that was disqualified. (1 is the threshold.)
The winner is also flagged.
Example
The National Rail Service receives five bids. It disqualifies four bids, and awards the contract to the remaining bid from CorruptX Solutions.
Why is this a red flag?
A corrupt buyer can award the pre-determined bidder by disqualifying other bidders’ bids.
Based on “Exclusion of all but one bid” in An Objective Corruption Risk Index Using Public Procurement Data and “Prevalence of faulty bids” in Toolkit for detecting collusive bidding in public procurement.
Output¶
The indicator’s value for the contracting process is the number of unique tenderers with disqualified bids.
The indicator’s value for the tenderer is always 0.0.
If the --map command-line flag is set, the Maps key contains:
- ocid_tenderer_r035
The flagged tenderers for each flagged
ocid.
Configuration¶
All configuration is optional. If you observe many false positives among contracting processes with few submitted bids, you can increase the threshold. To override the default threshold, add to your settings file, as a natural number:
[R035]
threshold = 1 # default
Exclusions¶
A contracting process is excluded if:
An award’s status is pending or invalid.
Demonstration¶
Input
{"ocid":"F","bids":{"details":[{"status":"disqualified","tenderers":[{"id":"D"}]},{"status":"valid","tenderers":[{"id":"V"}]}]},"awards":[{"status":"active","suppliers":[{"id":"V"}]}]}
Output
$ ocdscardinal indicators --settings docs/examples/R/035.ini --no-meta docs/examples/R/035.jsonl
{"OCID":{"F":{"R035":1.0}},"Tenderer":{"V":{"R035":0.0}}}