Treating and preventing malnutrition, and the supply chain it depends on
Nutrition programmes are commissioned around defined protocols with little room for reinterpretation. Screening uses standard anthropometric measures and cut-offs, admission and discharge criteria are defined, and treatment of acute malnutrition follows established regimens with specified products. Bids are therefore evaluated less on proposed approach than on the capacity to deliver the protocol at scale, with the reporting that lets a buyer see coverage, cure, default and mortality rates against recognised performance thresholds.
The supply chain is the part that most often breaks. Therapeutic and supplementary foods and micronutrient products are bought against product specifications and from a limited set of qualified producers, with shelf life, storage temperature, and packaging integrity affecting usability on arrival. Forecasting is hard because caseload responds to season, harvest and displacement, so contracts need buffer stock, reallocation provisions between sites, and a mechanism for surge that does not require a new procurement.
Prevention work sits alongside treatment and is judged differently. Infant and young child feeding counselling, growth monitoring, fortification, school feeding and social behaviour change communication are delivered through community structures and health services, so evaluation weights community health worker training, supervision and retention, and integration with existing services rather than parallel delivery. Buyers increasingly require a handover or transition plan to national systems from the outset, because programmes that build parallel structures leave nothing when funding ends.
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 nutrition programs in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 45 nutrition programs records from 41 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Icbf Regional Nariño (4 records); Icbf Regional Valle DEL Cauca (2 records); Alcaldia Municipal Fusagasuga (1 record); Alcaldia Municipio DE Titiribi++ (1 record); Bolívar - Alcaldía Municipio De Cantagallo (1 record); Departamento DE Cundinamarca- Secretaria DE Salud (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Icbf Regional Nariño | 4 | 8.9% |
| Icbf Regional Valle DEL Cauca | 2 | 4.4% |
| Alcaldia Municipal Fusagasuga | 1 | 2.2% |
| Alcaldia Municipio DE Titiribi++ | 1 | 2.2% |
| Bolívar - Alcaldía Municipio De Cantagallo | 1 | 2.2% |
| Departamento DE Cundinamarca- Secretaria DE Salud | 1 | 2.2% |
What are nutrition programs contracts worth in Colombia?
45 of the 45 records publish a contract value. The median is $7,200 and the largest single published value is $1.7M. By size, 33 under $100k, 10 between $100k and $1M, 2 between $1M and $10M. 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 | 33 | 73% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 22% |
| between $1M and $10M | 2 | 4.4% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to nutrition programs tenders in Colombia?
Across the 29 Colombia nutrition programs notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 158 days. A quarter of them allowed 91 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 214. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are nutrition programs tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 13 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 42, spread across 13 separate months of activity since 6 December 2022. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 18 March 2026, 197 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia nutrition programs records on this page come from?
These 45 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (23), SECOP II (22). 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 Nutrition Programs tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 45 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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