The serial winners: companies that keep beating everyone — or nobody
One insurer collected 11 public contracts — and faced, on average, fewer than one and a half competing bids each time. Ethias, active exclusively in CPV division 66 (financial and insurance services), recorded an average of 1.27 bids per contest it won, with 72.7 % of those wins coming in single-bid procedures. Across those 11 awards, the reported contract value reached approximately €353 million. Whether that pattern reflects a genuinely thin supplier market, bespoke specifications, or something else entirely is a question the numbers alone cannot answer — but it is the kind of signal procurement monitors exist to flag.
The full ranking of 20 named winners, their win counts, reported values, average bid counts, and single-bid percentages follows below the cut.
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