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See also: R038 - Excessive disqualified bids
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.)
Why is this a red flag?A corrupt buyer can award the pre-determined bidder by disqualifying other bidders’ bids.
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:
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:Minimum number of tenderers with disqualified bids required to flag the process. Must be at least 1.
Exclusions
A contracting process is excluded if:- An award’s status is pending or invalid.
Implementation Details
The indicator (fromsrc/indicators/r035.rs):
- Collects all supplier IDs from complete active awards
- Tracks tenderer IDs from valid and disqualified bids
- Only applies to single tenderers/winners (multiple winners are excluded)
- Counts the number of disqualified tenderers that are not the winning tenderer
- Flags the process if the count meets or exceeds the threshold