Sustainment, spares and the contracts that keep equipment available
Defence logistics is bought as sustained availability rather than as a series of deliveries. The dominant contract shapes are long-term support arrangements in which a supplier is paid for an equipment fleet being ready to use -- measured as availability, sortie rates or vehicles fit for task -- and is left to decide how much spares stock, repair capacity and preventive work that requires. The bidder's commercial risk moves from supplying parts to predicting failures, which is why reliability data and its ownership are negotiated early.
The supply chain itself is a specified deliverable. Requirements typically cover codification and unique identification of every item, packaging and preservation standards for long storage or harsh transit, shelf-life management, and configuration control so that a part fitted matches the approved build standard of the platform. Counterfeit parts avoidance and traceability to an approved manufacturing source are explicit obligations, not assurances, and an inability to evidence provenance is a disqualifying finding rather than a corrective action.
Access to the competition is controlled before capability is assessed. Security clearance for personnel and facilities, national security exemptions that restrict participation to particular suppliers, export control and end-use licensing, and offset or industrial participation obligations all determine who may bid. Deployed support adds its own requirements: contractors operating alongside deployed forces need defined status, insurance and medical arrangements, and the contract has to say what happens when the operation moves or the theatre closes.
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 military logistics in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 90 military logistics records from 53 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Unp (14 records); Central Administrativa y Contable Cenac Personal (9 records); Agencia Logistica de LAS Fuerzas Militares (3 records); Caja de Retiro de LAS Fuerzas Militares (3 records); Dirección General de Sanidad Militar+ (3 records); Divri (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 39% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Unp | 14 | 16% |
| Central Administrativa y Contable Cenac Personal | 9 | 10% |
| Agencia Logistica de LAS Fuerzas Militares | 3 | 3.3% |
| Caja de Retiro de LAS Fuerzas Militares | 3 | 3.3% |
| Dirección General de Sanidad Militar+ | 3 | 3.3% |
| Divri | 3 | 3.3% |
What are military logistics contracts worth in Colombia?
89 of the 90 records publish a contract value. The median is $9,952 and the largest single published value is $1.3M. By size, 84 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 1 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 | 84 | 94% |
| between $100k and $1M | 4 | 4.5% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 1.1% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to military logistics tenders in Colombia?
Across the 65 Colombia military logistics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 334 days. A quarter of them allowed 165 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 337. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (1.5%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are military logistics tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 14 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 14 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 83, spread across 24 separate months of activity since 15 March 2022. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 10 April 2026, 174 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 military logistics markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable military logistics market, Colombia ranks 20th by number of records. The largest is Germany (723 records against 90 here). Within Colombia itself, military logistics is the 38th largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia military logistics records on this page come from?
These 90 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (52), SECOP II (38). 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 Military Logistics tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 90 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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