One firm holds a dominant share of awards in Bhavnagar 1

Bipartite graph centrality + HHI evaluated this work against 314 comparable sanctions in Gujarat 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.

1. 01Vendor share of constituency awards+39.5
2. 02Herfindahl index of the pool+27.1
3. 03Repeat pairing with agency+13.8
4. 04Bid participation breadth+12.4
5. 05Award-to-registration interval+6.1

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

1. 16 Jan 2024Work sanctioned by the District Authority₹35.06 L · Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation
2. 16 Jan 2024First instalment released to the implementing agency₹14.74 L
3. 21 Jan 2026D-07 fired during the nightly scoring runBipartite graph centrality + HHI · confidence 0.78
4. 21 Jan 2026Alert routed to Internal audit unitResponse window 7 days
5. 21 Jan 2026Escalated to the State Nodal AuthorityAwaiting agency reply