Bundled services, integrator models and where the savings are supposed to come from
Facilities management is a packaging decision as much as a service. A buyer can let cleaning, catering, security, maintenance and grounds separately, bundle them into one hard and one soft services contract, or appoint a single integrator that manages a supply chain it largely does not own. Each route produces a different competition: bundling favours large national suppliers and promises coordination savings, while separate lots keep specialists in the market and keep the management burden with the buyer.
The integrator model deserves particular scrutiny because the value it adds is management rather than delivery. Tenders should establish what the integrator is paid -- a fee, a margin on subcontracted work, or both -- whether supply chain prices are open to the buyer, and how subcontractors are selected and paid. Where those questions are left vague, the arrangement can add a layer of cost while transferring little risk, which is the failure mode this model is criticised for.
Whatever the packaging, performance is managed through the asset data. Contracts specify a computer-aided facilities management system, an asset register with condition and remaining life, statutory compliance certificates by asset, and the obligation to keep all of it current and to hand it over at the end. That data is the buyer's real protection: it is what makes the next competition possible, and a contract that ends with the information locked in a departing supplier's system has to be re-tendered blind.
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 facilities management in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 432 facilities management records from 298 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Departamento Administrativo de Gestion DEL Medio Ambiente Dagma (11 records); Camara de Representantes (9 records); Instituto de Deportes y Recreacion de Medellin (9 records); (Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social) (8 records); Municipio de Soacha. (8 records); Municipio de Jerico - Antioquia (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Departamento Administrativo de Gestion DEL Medio Ambiente Dagma | 11 | 2.5% |
| Camara de Representantes | 9 | 2.1% |
| Instituto de Deportes y Recreacion de Medellin | 9 | 2.1% |
| (Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social) | 8 | 1.9% |
| Municipio de Soacha. | 8 | 1.9% |
| Municipio de Jerico - Antioquia | 5 | 1.2% |
What are facilities management contracts worth in Colombia?
429 of the 432 records publish a contract value. The median is $4,976 and the largest single published value is $8.9M. By size, 406 under $100k, 19 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M. 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 | 406 | 95% |
| between $100k and $1M | 19 | 4.4% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 0.9% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to facilities management tenders in Colombia?
Across the 306 Colombia facilities management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 170 days. A quarter of them allowed 91 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 325. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 7 (2.3%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are facilities management tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 98 in the last twelve months. That is 11% more than the 88 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 413, spread across 44 separate months of activity since 20 December 2019. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 22 April 2026, 162 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 facilities management markets?
Among the 4 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable facilities management market, Colombia ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is United States (887 records against 432 here). Within Colombia itself, facilities management is the 13th largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia facilities management records on this page come from?
These 432 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (248), SECOP II (184). 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 Facilities Management tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 432 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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