Impact assessment, its statutory timetable and who is allowed to write it
An environmental impact assessment is a statutory process with a prescribed sequence, and the procurement has to fit inside it. Screening establishes whether a formal assessment is required at all; scoping settles which effects will be examined and to what depth, usually in consultation with the regulator; the assessment itself gathers baseline data and predicts effects; and the resulting statement is published and consulted on. Each stage has a consultation period nobody can compress, so a bid whose programme omits them is not credible.
Baseline surveys are the immovable constraint. Ecological, noise, air quality and hydrological baselines can only be gathered in particular seasons or over particular durations, and a survey done outside its valid window will be challenged. Competent expert requirements apply: many jurisdictions require the assessment to be prepared by suitably qualified people and to say who they were, so the bid names specialists per topic rather than offering a firm.
The commercial risk sits after submission. Regulator and consultee requests for further information, and in contested cases a public inquiry or hearing, extend the work well beyond the statement, and expert witness attendance is a separate and expensive commitment. Tenders should be read for whether that is included, capped or excluded. Independence matters too: an assessment written by a consultant with an interest in the project proceeding is vulnerable to challenge on exactly that ground, which is why conflict declarations in this category cover the wider group and not only the team.
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 environmental assessment in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 318 environmental assessment records from 118 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales - Anla (56 records); Departamento Administrativo de Gestion DEL Medio Ambiente Dagma (50 records); Corpoboyaca (12 records); Municipio de Yumbo Valle (8 records); Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (6 records); Secretaria Distrital de Ambiente (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 43% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales - Anla | 56 | 18% |
| Departamento Administrativo de Gestion DEL Medio Ambiente Dagma | 50 | 16% |
| Corpoboyaca | 12 | 3.8% |
| Municipio de Yumbo Valle | 8 | 2.5% |
| Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible | 6 | 1.9% |
| Secretaria Distrital de Ambiente | 6 | 1.9% |
What are environmental assessment contracts worth in Colombia?
314 of the 318 records publish a contract value. The median is $6,377 and the largest single published value is $579,758. By size, 311 under $100k, 3 between $100k and $1M. The remaining 4 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 | 311 | 99% |
| between $100k and $1M | 3 | 1.0% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to environmental assessment tenders in Colombia?
Across the 268 Colombia environmental assessment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 183 days. A quarter of them allowed 94 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 353. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (1.5%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are environmental assessment tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 39 in the last twelve months. That is 50% fewer than the 78 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 299, spread across 30 separate months of activity since 9 May 2013. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 7 April 2026, 177 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 environmental assessment markets?
Among the 9 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental assessment market, Colombia ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is United States (1,115 records against 318 here). Within Colombia itself, environmental assessment is the 17th largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia environmental assessment records on this page come from?
These 318 records are collected from 4 official sources: SECOP II (177), SECOP II (137), the Inter-American Development Bank (3), the World 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 Environmental Assessment tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 318 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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