HBS ASSOCIATES: public contracts won without a rival in India: 2 uncontested awards; 29% of its awards; 0 without a competition; 2 single bid.
Assay record ASY-IN-1OCVZ1910W · Cite as: Assay Systems, “HBS ASSOCIATES: public contracts won without a rival in India”, https://assay-systems.com/register/in/uncontested/s/hbs-associates/
HBS ASSOCIATES won 2 of its 7 public contract awards in India without a rival from 2024-08-16 to 2026-02-20: 0 without a competition and 2 after a competition that drew a single bid. 1 buyer awarded it without a rival, the largest Mahanadi Coalfields Limited · LINGARAJ AREA · LING_E AND M · E AND M with 2.
An award is uncontested when the buyer had no rival offer to weigh: it was made without a competition (direct award, negotiated procedure without a call for tenders, sole-source or advance-notice contract), or a competition was held and only one bid arrived. Every count below is built award by award from the official notices. Awards to individuals are not included.
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited · LINGARAJ AREA · LING_E AND M · E AND M gave HBS ASSOCIATES 6 awards: 0 without a competition, 2 after a competition with a single bid. First 2024-08-16, latest 2026-02-20.
| Date | Buyer | How | Stated reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | Mahanadi Coalfields Limited · LINGARAJ AREA · LING_E AND M · E AND M AOC-2025_MCL_348213_1 | Single bid Works | — |
| 2025-10-24 | Mahanadi Coalfields Limited · LINGARAJ AREA · LING_E AND M · E AND M AOC-2025_MCL_339915_1 | Single bid Works | — |
Every uncontested award in India · All countries · HBS ASSOCIATES in the register
Source: award of contract (AOC) records for India from the Central Public Procurement Portal (eprocure.gov.in) and the state e-procurement portals run on the NIC GePNIC system, as scraped and published by fireboy21 in the dataset tenders_aoc on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0; awards from January 2021 to 30 September 2026, accessed 15 October 2026. Awards are matched to their buyer and supplier as published. Values in these notices often state a framework ceiling rather than a contract amount, so awards are counted, not summed. Updated 17 October 2026.