A tender that draws only one qualified bidder is among the most common patterns IPW flags. A single bidder is not proof of anything by itself; sometimes a market is genuinely thin. But because open competition is the main mechanism that keeps prices honest, its repeated absence — especially with the same vendor winning — is a signal worth explaining. IPW encourages agencies to review why competition failed to materialise rather than treat a lone bid as routine.
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