Spatial data, the schema it lands in, and who can use it afterwards
Geospatial procurement is about data and the systems that serve it rather than about maps. The specification should state the feature classes to be captured, the attribute schema each must conform to, the coordinate reference system, the capture scale or accuracy, and the metadata standard the delivery must carry. Those choices determine whether the result can be joined to data the buyer already holds, and the commonest failure in this category is a technically excellent dataset that will not align with anything.
Where the data comes from is a distinct question from how it is structured. Digitising from existing records, field survey, remote sensing, and licensing an existing commercial or national dataset are all routes with different costs and different rights attached, and licensed base data frequently carries derived-data restrictions that limit what the buyer may publish afterwards. Public bodies increasingly require outputs they can release openly, which makes the licensing of any underlying base data a procurement decision rather than a technical one.
Systems requirements follow standards that exist for interoperability. Buyers specify service interfaces for viewing, querying and downloading spatial data, catalogue entries so the data can be discovered, and formats that are open and documented. Maintenance is the part most often omitted: spatial data decays as the world changes, so update cycles, change detection, version control and the retention of historical states need to be contracted, and address and property datasets in particular need a defined authoritative source rather than a one-off capture.
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 gis & mapping in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 43 gis & mapping records from 14 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (13 records); Igac Sede Central * (10 records); Alcaldia Municipio de Villavicencio (3 records); Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador (3 records); Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Departamento Administrativo de Hacienda (3 records); Corporacion Autonoma Regional de Sucre (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 79% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT | 13 | 30% |
| Igac Sede Central * | 10 | 23% |
| Alcaldia Municipio de Villavicencio | 3 | 7.0% |
| Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador | 3 | 7.0% |
| Santiago de Cali Distrito Especial - Departamento Administrativo de Hacienda | 3 | 7.0% |
| Corporacion Autonoma Regional de Sucre | 2 | 4.7% |
What are gis & mapping contracts worth in Colombia?
42 of the 43 records publish a contract value. The median is $9,023 and the largest single published value is $26,166. By size, 42 under $100k. 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 | 42 | 100% |
| between $100k and $1M | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to gis & mapping tenders in Colombia?
Across the 33 Colombia gis & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 242 days. A quarter of them allowed 158 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 329. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are gis & mapping tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 7 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 41, spread across 12 separate months of activity since 25 February 2023. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 27 January 2026, 247 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia gis & mapping records on this page come from?
These 43 records are collected from 3 official sources: SECOP II (22), SECOP II (20), 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 GIS & Mapping tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 43 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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