Miscellaneous Goods Government Tenders in Colombia

How to read a mixed goods notice before deciding whether it is worth bidding

A mixed or unclassified goods notice is a packaging decision by the buyer, not a market. It usually means a set of low-value, administratively awkward items has been bundled into one competition to avoid running several, and the bundle may contain things a single supplier cannot sensibly provide. The first question for a bidder is whether the award is by lot or as a whole, because an indivisible award across an incoherent bundle pushes the work to distributors and excludes the manufacturers of everything in it.

Specifications in these notices are usually thinner than elsewhere, which is a risk rather than an opportunity. Where the description is generic, the tender normally relies on reference to a recognised standard, a named equivalent product, or a sample, and bidders should establish which applies before pricing. Clarification questions are the remedy, and they are answered to all bidders, so asking early is the efficient move: a specification that cannot be clarified is one where the evaluation will be unpredictable.

The commercial terms follow the low-value pattern. Awards are often framework call-offs with no committed volume, delivery is to multiple sites in small quantities, and the administrative cost per order can exceed the margin on the goods. Bidders should price ordering, consolidation, minimum order values and returns explicitly rather than absorbing them, and should check payment terms and invoicing requirements, because a contract that is profitable per item can be loss-making per transaction.

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 miscellaneous goods in Colombia?

GlobalGov holds 74 miscellaneous goods records from 61 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Inter-american Development Bank (13 records); (Secretaría Distrital de Integración Social) (2 records); Antioquia - Instituto Municipal De Deporte Y Recreación De Arboletes - Imderar (1 record); ATLÁNTICO - INSTITUTO MUNICIPAL de DEPORTE y RECREACIÓN de CANDELARIA (1 record); Agencia de Desarrollo Rural (1 record); Alcaldia de Aguachica (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 26% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are miscellaneous goods contracts worth in Colombia?

58 of the 74 records publish a contract value. The median is $11,313 and the largest single published value is $2.3M. By size, 53 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 16 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 miscellaneous goods tenders in Colombia?

Across the 22 Colombia miscellaneous goods notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 209 days. A quarter of them allowed 104 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 332. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are miscellaneous goods tenders published in Colombia?

Colombia published 6 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 31, spread across 27 separate months of activity since 2 March 2011. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 20 April 2026, 164 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 miscellaneous goods markets?

Among the 11 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable miscellaneous goods market, Colombia ranks 10th by number of records. The largest is Kenya (1,297 records against 74 here). Within Colombia itself, miscellaneous goods is the 42nd largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Colombia miscellaneous goods records on this page come from?

These 74 records are collected from 4 official sources: SECOP II (47), the Inter-American Development Bank (13), SECOP II (13), UN Global Marketplace (1). 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 Miscellaneous Goods 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 miscellaneous goods notice in Colombia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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