Institutional strengthening, and how to tell whether anything was actually built
Capacity building is commissioned to leave an organisation able to do something it could not do before, which makes the supplier's exit part of the design rather than the end of it. The strongest specifications distinguish between individual capability, organisational systems and the enabling environment, and say which is in scope; a programme that trains individuals inside an institution with no budget, mandate or retention will produce trained people who leave, and evaluations of this category say so repeatedly.
The delivery model is therefore accompaniment rather than instruction. Embedded advisers, coaching of post-holders, joint working on real tasks and phased transfer of responsibility feature far more than classroom delivery, and bids are assessed on how responsibility will be handed over and on what date. Local partners and local staffing are frequently required rather than preferred, both because sustainability depends on them and because donor policies increasingly require it.
Measurement is the hard part and buyers know it. Attendance and satisfaction are rejected as measures; contracts ask for organisational assessment against a defined maturity framework at baseline and at intervals, for evidence of changed practice such as functions performed without support, and increasingly for follow-up after the programme closes. Political economy constraints -- where authority actually sits, which reforms have no champion -- are expected to be analysed in the bid rather than discovered in year two, and a proposal that treats the institution as a technical problem is usually the weaker one.
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 capacity building in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 138 capacity building records from 100 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are (Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social) (7 records); Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Secretaria de Bienestar Social (6 records); Municipio de SAN Jose de Cucuta (5 records); Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Secretaria de Movilidad (5 records); Alcaldía Municipal de Magangue (3 records); Icbf Sede Nacional (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 21% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| (Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social) | 7 | 5.1% |
| Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Secretaria de Bienestar Social | 6 | 4.3% |
| Municipio de SAN Jose de Cucuta | 5 | 3.6% |
| Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Secretaria de Movilidad | 5 | 3.6% |
| Alcaldía Municipal de Magangue | 3 | 2.2% |
| Icbf Sede Nacional | 3 | 2.2% |
What are capacity building contracts worth in Colombia?
137 of the 138 records publish a contract value. The median is $5,667 and the largest single published value is $1.2M. By size, 135 under $100k, 1 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 1 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 | 135 | 99% |
| between $100k and $1M | 1 | 0.7% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 0.7% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to capacity building tenders in Colombia?
Across the 93 Colombia capacity building notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 159 days. A quarter of them allowed 94 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 288. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (2.2%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are capacity building tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 38 in the last twelve months. That is 81% more than the 21 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 124, spread across 26 separate months of activity since 8 October 2013. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 18 March 2026, 197 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia capacity building records on this page come from?
These 138 records are collected from 3 official sources: SECOP II (81), SECOP II (56), the Inter-American Development Bank (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 Capacity Building tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 138 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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