Maternal Health Government Tenders in Colombia

Services for pregnancy and birth, and the measures they are held to

Maternity services are commissioned around a pathway with a fixed biological timetable and a very low tolerance for failure. Specifications cover antenatal care with defined contact schedules and screening offers, intrapartum care with staffing ratios and access to obstetric, anaesthetic and neonatal support within stated times, and postnatal care including newborn checks and maternal follow-up. Continuity of carer, where it is specified, has a substantial staffing and rostering implication that bidders frequently underestimate.

Safety governance is heavier here than almost anywhere else in healthcare. Providers are expected to report and investigate defined serious outcomes under a national framework, participate in perinatal mortality review and clinical audit, evidence multi-professional training including emergency skills drills, and demonstrate escalation routes that work at night and at weekends. Buyers commonly require compliance with a named safety standard as a contractual condition with financial consequences attached.

Equity is an explicit commissioning objective rather than an aspiration, because outcome differences between groups in this service are well-documented and persistent. Tenders ask specifically how the provider will improve access and outcomes for groups with the worst results, including interpreting provision that does not rely on family members, outreach for people who book late or not at all, and continuity for those with complex social needs. Reporting is expected to be disaggregated, because an aggregate improvement that leaves the gap unchanged does not meet the specification.

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 maternal health in Colombia?

GlobalGov holds 30 maternal health records from 21 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud Norte E.S.E. (Oficial) (3 records); Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud SUR Occidente Ese. (3 records); E.S.E Clinica Maternidad Rafael Calvo C. (2 records); E.S.E. Instituto de Salud de Bucaramanga (2 records); Hospital Municipal de Acacias E.S.E. (2 records); Icbf Regional Caqueta (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 47% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are maternal health contracts worth in Colombia?

30 of the 30 records publish a contract value. The median is $8,252 and the largest single published value is $262,482. By size, 28 under $100k, 2 between $100k and $1M. 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 maternal health tenders in Colombia?

Across the 21 Colombia maternal health notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 252 days. A quarter of them allowed 105 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 365. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are maternal health tenders published in Colombia?

Colombia published 8 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 30, spread across 7 separate months of activity since 1 January 2024. 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.

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

These 30 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (17), SECOP II (13). 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 Maternal Health tenders in Colombia

No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 30 records GlobalGov holds for it.

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