Counter Uas Government Tenders in Colombia

Detecting and defeating small unmanned aircraft, under rules set elsewhere

Counter unmanned aircraft procurement is unusual in that the legal constraints are tighter than the technical ones. Detection through radio frequency sensing may engage interception law; jamming and spoofing are regulated uses of spectrum that most operators are not permitted to make and that interfere with navigation and communications systems belonging to others; and physically defeating an aircraft over a populated area creates a falling object. Tenders are therefore written around what the buyer is legally authorised to do, and a bid proposing effectors the buyer cannot lawfully use is inadmissible however capable.

Detection is specified as a layered problem because no single sensor is sufficient. Radio frequency detection finds controlled aircraft but not autonomous ones, radar struggles against small slow targets among clutter, acoustic sensing has short range, and optical confirmation needs cueing. Buyers therefore specify sensor fusion, and the measures that matter are probability of detection at range against defined target classes and, critically, false alarm rate: a system that stops an airport hourly for birds is worse than no system.

The environment governs everything. Urban sites bring reflections, congested spectrum and dense background traffic; airports bring safety regulation and coordination with air traffic control; and the rapid evolution of the threat means a system frozen at delivery is obsolete quickly, so software update paths, threat library currency and an open architecture for adding effectors and sensors are contractual requirements. Integration with existing security control rooms and recording for evidential use are specified far more often than they are bid.

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 counter uas in Colombia?

GlobalGov holds 27 counter uas records from 19 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Caja de Retiro de LAS Fuerzas Militares (3 records); Central Administrativa Y Contable Especializada Cenac Educación// (3 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (2 records); Batallon de Apoyo y Servicios Para EL Combate No. 26 (2 records); Grupo Intendencia Regional Caribe (2 records); Mesan (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 52% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are counter uas contracts worth in Colombia?

27 of the 27 records publish a contract value. The median is $8,781 and the largest single published value is $3.6M. By size, 23 under $100k, 3 between $100k and $1M, 1 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to counter uas tenders in Colombia?

Across the 15 Colombia counter uas notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 210 days. A quarter of them allowed 154 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 320. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are counter uas tenders published in Colombia?

Colombia published 10 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 25, spread across 14 separate months of activity since 20 February 2023. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 27 February 2026, 216 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

Where do the Colombia counter uas records on this page come from?

These 27 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (19), SECOP II (8). 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 Counter Uas tenders in Colombia

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical counter uas notice in Colombia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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