Commissioning mental health support across a pathway that rarely has one owner
Mental health services are commissioned across a spectrum that no single provider covers, from prevention and self-help through talking therapies and community teams to crisis response and inpatient care. The recurring difficulty is the joins: a service that meets its own specification and cannot accept or hand over a person safely creates risk rather than capacity. Tenders therefore specify referral criteria, response times, what happens to people who do not meet the threshold, and escalation when someone deteriorates while waiting.
Legal framework requirements are heavier than in most clinical services. Providers operate within mental health and capacity legislation covering detention, consent, advocacy and restrictive interventions, and are expected to evidence training, policy and audit against them, including reduction of restraint and seclusion. Safeguarding obligations, information sharing with families and carers within confidentiality limits, and duty of candour after incidents are contractual and inspected.
Outcome measurement uses instruments that are specified rather than chosen. Contracts name the rating scales used at entry and exit, reporting cycles, and often recovery or reliable improvement rates, which makes case mix and the honesty of the referral threshold commercially significant -- a service can improve its reported outcomes by accepting less unwell people, and good specifications guard against it. Workforce is the binding constraint: qualified practitioners are scarce in most systems, so buyers assess recruitment and retention plans and increasingly accept skill mix models with supervision arrangements specified in detail.
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 mental health in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 69 mental health records from 50 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Subred Integrada de Servicio de Salud Centro Oriente E.S.E 1 (5 records); Subred Integrada DE Servicios DE Salud Norte E.s.e. (oficial) (4 records); Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud Norte E.S.E. (Oficial) (4 records); E.S.E. Hospital Regional SUR Oriental (3 records); Icbf Regional Huila (3 records); Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud SUR Occidente Ese. (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 32% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Subred Integrada de Servicio de Salud Centro Oriente E.S.E 1 | 5 | 7.2% |
| Subred Integrada DE Servicios DE Salud Norte E.s.e. (oficial) | 4 | 5.8% |
| Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud Norte E.S.E. (Oficial) | 4 | 5.8% |
| E.S.E. Hospital Regional SUR Oriental | 3 | 4.3% |
| Icbf Regional Huila | 3 | 4.3% |
| Subred Integrada de Servicios de Salud SUR Occidente Ese. | 3 | 4.3% |
What are mental health contracts worth in Colombia?
69 of the 69 records publish a contract value. The median is $6,681 and the largest single published value is $269,115. By size, 67 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 67 | 97% |
| between $100k and $1M | 2 | 2.9% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to mental health tenders in Colombia?
Across the 47 Colombia mental health notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 242 days. A quarter of them allowed 137 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 335. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are mental health tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 18 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 29% more than the 14 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 68, spread across 18 separate months of activity since 1 December 2022. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 13 April 2026, 171 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia mental health records on this page come from?
These 69 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (36), SECOP II (33). 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 Mental Health tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 69 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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