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WatchOpenD-07 · ProcurementOwner: Internal audit unit

One firm holds a dominant share of awards in Sagar 3

Solar lighting, ward 7 · Sagar, Madhya Pradesh · sanctioned 16 Aug 2025 · detected 13 Dec 2025 (96 days ago)

Why this was flagged

score 53 / 100

Bipartite graph centrality + HHI evaluated this work against 563 comparable sanctions in Madhya Pradesh for the same category and financial year. One firm captures a disproportionate share of awards under a single MP or agency, adjusting for the size of the local contractor pool. The residual for this record falls outside the learned tolerance, and the contribution breakdown below isolates which measured features carried the score.

Composite score
53
Model confidence
0.74
Peer cohort
735 works
Tier
Watch ≥ 45
Feature contribution to the score
  1. 01Vendor share of constituency awards+25.1
  2. 02Herfindahl index of the pool+10.8
  3. 03Repeat pairing with agency+8.4
  4. 04Bid participation breadth+5.8
  5. 05Award-to-registration interval+2.9

Contributions are additive against the cohort baseline; they sum to the composite score and are recomputed whenever the underlying record changes.

Evidence

drawn from the source records
Vendor share of awards85%
Herfindahl index0.50
SanctionedRs 94.14 L
ReleasedRs 40.30 L
ExpenditureRs 28.84 L
Physical progress72%

Record trail

  1. 16 Aug 2025Work sanctioned by the District Authority₹94.14 L · Sagar Public Works Department
  2. 16 Aug 2025First instalment released to the implementing agency₹20.15 L
  3. 13 Dec 2025D-07 fired during the nightly scoring runBipartite graph centrality + HHI · confidence 0.74
  4. 13 Dec 2025Alert routed to Internal audit unitResponse window 30 days

The work

MPLADS/MP/2497
Asset
Solar lighting, ward 7
Category
Solar street lighting
Recommended by
D. Kulkarni · Rajya Sabha
Constituency
Sagar 3
Implementing agency
Sagar Public Works Department
Contractor
Konark Buildcon
Status
In progress
Beneficiaries
8,567
Money
Sanctioned94.14 L
Released40.30 L
Expenditure28.84 L
Unspent with agency11.46 L
Physical progress72%

Detector

D-07

Vendor concentration in a constituency

One firm captures a disproportionate share of awards under a single MP or agency, adjusting for the size of the local contractor pool.

Bipartite graph centrality + HHIProcurement

Comparable detections

D-07