Health It Government Tenders in Colombia

Clinical systems, interoperability and the safety case behind the software

Health software is procured as a clinical system, which means it carries obligations ordinary business software does not. Software that contributes to diagnosis, treatment or prevention may be a regulated medical device in its own right and require conformity assessment; either way, buyers require a clinical risk management file showing hazards identified, mitigations applied and residual risk accepted by a named clinical safety officer. Suppliers are expected to hold their own safety case and to maintain it through every release.

Interoperability is specified through named health data standards rather than through integration promises. Buyers require support for recognised messaging and document standards, the terminology and coding systems their jurisdiction mandates, and published interfaces that allow another system to read and write without bespoke development. The commercial consequence is deliberate: a supplier that charges for every interface controls the buyer's ability to introduce anything else, and tenders now commonly cap or prohibit integration charges.

Information governance and continuity dominate the contract terms. Lawful basis for processing, data residency, role-based access with auditable records of who viewed what, and retention periods measured in decades for clinical records are specified in detail. Deployment is planned around services that cannot stop, so cutover, fallback and business continuity procedures for system unavailability are part of the delivery. Exit is a patient safety issue rather than a commercial one: the record must be migrated complete, legible and legally admissible, and the tender should say in what form.

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 health it in Colombia?

GlobalGov holds 186 health it records from 73 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud SUR Occidente Ese. (36 records); Subred Integrada de Servicio de Salud Centro Oriente E.S.E 1 (11 records); Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud Norte E.S.E. (Oficial) (10 records); Minsalud (8 records); Adres (7 records); Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud SUR E.S.E.** (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 42% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are health it contracts worth in Colombia?

186 of the 186 records publish a contract value. The median is $5,047 and the largest single published value is $3.1M. By size, 181 under $100k, 3 between $100k and $1M, 2 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 health it tenders in Colombia?

Across the 167 Colombia health it notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 180 days. A quarter of them allowed 90 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 336. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (0.6%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are health it tenders published in Colombia?

Colombia publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. That is 71% more than the 14 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 186, spread across 20 separate months of activity since 1 January 2024. 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.

Where do the Colombia health it records on this page come from?

These 186 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (141), SECOP II (45). 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 Health It tenders in Colombia

No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 186 records GlobalGov holds for it.

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