Only one bidder in nearly 50% of tenders in Poland

There is only one bidder in case of 46 percent of the total number of tenders in Poland, which gives the highest such percentage in the EU, Stefan Batory Foundation estimated. Estonia, Cyprus and Slovakia face similar issues, while Ireland, the UK and Sweden show the opposite trend. According to experts, civil servants are afraid to implement anything other than price criteria while evaluating offers. What is more, the low number of offers may be due to the fact that small and medium-seized enterprises do not participate in the majority of tenders, because they cannot compete with huge firms which present cheap prices.