Collection management, and what an intelligence requirement actually asks for
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance procurement is best read from the requirement backwards. A buyer states an information need -- what must be known, about what area, to what confidence, how often, and how quickly the answer must arrive -- and the acceptable solution is whatever meets it. That framing is deliberate: it lets an airborne sensor, a ground sensor network, a commercial imagery subscription or an analysis service compete for the same requirement, and it makes revisit rate and timeliness as important as resolution.
Service-based provision has grown to sit alongside equipment purchase. Buyers contract for collection delivered as a service -- flying hours, imagery tasking, persistent monitoring of a defined area -- which moves platform ownership, crewing, maintenance and obsolescence to the supplier and prices the capability by what is actually collected. The commercial terms then concern tasking priority, guaranteed availability windows, weather and serviceability exclusions, and what happens when the buyer's need and the supplier's other customers collide.
Handling the product is as specified as collecting it. Classification and releasability of derived material, retention periods, the accreditation of the systems the material is processed on, and the clearances held by analysts are all conditions of the contract, and they constrain where work may be performed. Interoperability is written in terms of recognised formats and metadata so that collected material can be exploited by tools the buyer already owns, which is the requirement most often omitted and most expensive to add afterwards.
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 isr and surveillance in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 229 isr and surveillance records from 87 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Supervigilancia - MD (64 records); Municipio de Manizales (30 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (13 records); Alcaldia de Pasto (4 records); Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario - ICA (4 records); Municipio de Puerto Gaitan (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 52% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Supervigilancia - MD | 64 | 28% |
| Municipio de Manizales | 30 | 13% |
| Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT | 13 | 5.7% |
| Alcaldia de Pasto | 4 | 1.7% |
| Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario - ICA | 4 | 1.7% |
| Municipio de Puerto Gaitan | 4 | 1.7% |
What are isr and surveillance contracts worth in Colombia?
229 of the 229 records publish a contract value. The median is $7,464 and the largest single published value is $2.8M. By size, 210 under $100k, 12 between $100k and $1M, 7 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 210 | 92% |
| between $100k and $1M | 12 | 5.2% |
| between $1M and $10M | 7 | 3.1% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to isr and surveillance tenders in Colombia?
Across the 204 Colombia isr and surveillance notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 176 days. A quarter of them allowed 112 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 343. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (2.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are isr and surveillance tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 10 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 64% fewer than the 28 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 223, spread across 26 separate months of activity since 18 February 2021. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 16 February 2026, 227 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 isr and surveillance markets?
Among the 8 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable isr and surveillance market, Colombia ranks 2nd by number of records. The largest is France (334 records against 229 here). Within Colombia itself, isr and surveillance is the 21st largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia isr and surveillance records on this page come from?
These 229 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (177), SECOP II (52). 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 ISR and Surveillance tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 229 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Colombia
ISR and Surveillance procurement in other markets
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