Advisory, implementation and the line buyers draw between them
IT consulting sits between two markets a public buyer keeps separate on purpose. Advisory work -- architecture, strategy, procurement support, assurance of somebody else's delivery -- is bought for independence, and a firm that provides it is frequently barred from bidding for the implementation it shaped. Implementation consulting is bought for delivery capacity and is judged on method and people. Reading which side of that line a notice sits on is the first commercial question, because winning the wrong one can foreclose a larger opportunity.
Engagement is dominated by frameworks with rate cards by role and seniority, called off through further competition or direct award. That makes the published rate card the real bid, and it makes the proposed blend of grades the real price: two suppliers with identical rates can quote very different totals for the same work depending on how much of it they put on senior staff. Buyers increasingly cap the proportion of junior time and require named individuals with the right to reject substitutions.
The terms that decide whether a consulting engagement leaves anything behind are about knowledge and exit. Public buyers now routinely require documented handover, the transfer of models, configurations and scripts produced during the work, restrictions on the consultant's ability to resell the same artefacts back, and a transition obligation at the end of the term. Where the work touches personal or classified data, security clearance for staff, approved working locations and controls on offshore access are conditions of entry rather than negotiable preferences.
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 it consulting in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 218 it consulting records from 149 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia (12 records); Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro (9 records); Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador (6 records); Invias (6 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (5 records); Alcaldia de Pasto (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 19% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia | 12 | 5.5% |
| Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro | 9 | 4.1% |
| Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador | 6 | 2.8% |
| Invias | 6 | 2.8% |
| Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT | 5 | 2.3% |
| Alcaldia de Pasto | 4 | 1.8% |
What are it consulting contracts worth in Colombia?
213 of the 218 records publish a contract value. The median is $6,585 and the largest single published value is $74.1M. By size, 209 under $100k, 2 between $100k and $1M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 5 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 | 209 | 98% |
| between $100k and $1M | 2 | 0.9% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 2 | 0.9% |
How long do bidders get to respond to it consulting tenders in Colombia?
Across the 166 Colombia it consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 182 days. A quarter of them allowed 94 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 334. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 6 (3.6%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are it consulting tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 31 in the last twelve months. That is 30% fewer than the 44 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 209, spread across 28 separate months of activity since 7 February 2020. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 30 January 2026, 244 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 it consulting markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable it consulting market, Colombia ranks 15th by number of records. The largest is Germany (2,535 records against 218 here). Within Colombia itself, it consulting is the 22nd largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia it consulting records on this page come from?
These 218 records are collected from 3 official sources: SECOP II (123), SECOP II (92), TED (3). 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 IT Consulting tenders in Colombia
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical it consulting notice in Colombia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Congo – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – Etudes préalables à l’implémentation de quatre sous-projets et l’élaboration des cahiers des charges et des termes de référence pour la mise en œuvre desdits sous-projets de la composante « renforcement de la gouvernance électronique du secteur public ».
Other procurement categories in Colombia
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