Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price
Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.
Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.
Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys agricultural equipment in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 130 agricultural equipment records from 73 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Alcaldia de Pasto (12 records); Upra (10 records); Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario - ICA (7 records); Art (6 records); Sena Regional Antioquia Grupo Administrativo Ctapt (5 records); Alcaldia Municipal la Tebaida Quindio (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 34% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alcaldia de Pasto | 12 | 9.2% |
| Upra | 10 | 7.7% |
| Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario - ICA | 7 | 5.4% |
| Art | 6 | 4.6% |
| Sena Regional Antioquia Grupo Administrativo Ctapt | 5 | 3.8% |
| Alcaldia Municipal la Tebaida Quindio | 4 | 3.1% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in Colombia?
127 of the 130 records publish a contract value. The median is $5,690 and the largest single published value is $184,306. By size, 122 under $100k, 5 between $100k and $1M. The remaining 3 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 122 | 96% |
| between $100k and $1M | 5 | 3.9% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in Colombia?
Across the 106 Colombia agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 175 days. A quarter of them allowed 46 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 331. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 12 (11%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 15 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 15 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 120, spread across 18 separate months of activity since 9 June 2021. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 24 March 2026, 191 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Colombia compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, Colombia ranks 26th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 130 here). Within Colombia itself, agricultural equipment is the 32nd largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 130 records are collected from 4 official sources: SECOP II (90), SECOP II (38), the Inter-American Development Bank (1), TED (1). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Agricultural Equipment tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 130 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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