Command and control systems, and why integration dominates the requirement
Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is a systems-of-systems requirement rather than a product category. The buyer is assembling a capability from sensors, bearers, processing, decision support and displays, much of which it already owns, and the procurement is usually for the integration that makes them work as one. The dominant evaluation criterion is therefore architecture: whether the proposed solution uses open, published interfaces that let components be replaced, or whether it creates a single supplier the buyer cannot leave.
Interoperability is specified through named standards and message formats so that systems from different suppliers, and frequently from different nations, can exchange tracks, orders and reports without bespoke translation. Buyers assess conformance through testing against reference implementations rather than through declarations, and they acquire technical data rights deliberately, because the right to integrate a future component is worth more over a system's life than any feature in the initial delivery.
Security accreditation is the gate that governs the programme timetable. Systems handling classified information must be accredited before use, cross-domain transfer between classification levels is tightly controlled and slow to approve, and the supply chain itself is assessed for provenance. Cleared personnel, approved facilities and export licensing determine who may bid and where work may be done. Resilience requirements -- operating degraded, operating without connectivity, recovering after loss of a node -- are specified and tested rather than asserted, because that is the condition the system exists for.
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 c4isr in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 293 c4isr records from 55 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Unp (124 records); Central Administrativa y Contable Cenac Personal (12 records); Supervigilancia - MD (12 records); Comando de Reclutamiento y Control Reservas DEL Ejercito Nacional (11 records); Grupo Intendencia Regional Caribe (11 records); Comando General de LAS Fuerzas Militares (9 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 61% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Unp | 124 | 42% |
| Central Administrativa y Contable Cenac Personal | 12 | 4.1% |
| Supervigilancia - MD | 12 | 4.1% |
| Comando de Reclutamiento y Control Reservas DEL Ejercito Nacional | 11 | 3.8% |
| Grupo Intendencia Regional Caribe | 11 | 3.8% |
| Comando General de LAS Fuerzas Militares | 9 | 3.1% |
What are c4isr contracts worth in Colombia?
293 of the 293 records publish a contract value. The median is $9,889 and the largest single published value is $1.8M. By size, 286 under $100k, 5 between $100k and $1M, 2 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 0 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 | 286 | 98% |
| between $100k and $1M | 5 | 1.7% |
| between $1M and $10M | 2 | 0.7% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to c4isr tenders in Colombia?
Across the 249 Colombia c4isr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 330 days. A quarter of them allowed 173 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 347. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (0.8%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are c4isr tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 25 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 275, spread across 31 separate months of activity since 3 February 2021. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 16 April 2026, 168 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia c4isr records on this page come from?
These 293 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (210), SECOP II (83). 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 C4Isr tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 293 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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