Commissioning images and video, and the licence that decides their value
The commercial substance of a photography or video commission is the licence, not the shoot. A public body that pays for images and receives a narrow, time-limited, single-channel licence will pay again to use them elsewhere, so tenders normally specify the rights required: territory, media, duration and whether the buyer may sublicense to partners. Full assignment is common in public procurement and should be priced as such rather than assumed, because it is worth materially more to the buyer than a licence.
Consent and safeguarding obligations govern what can be shot and used. Model releases are required from identifiable people, with additional consent from a parent or guardian for children and specific care where subjects are patients, service users or otherwise vulnerable. Consent has to cover the uses actually intended and be withdrawable in line with data protection law, which means the supplier's record-keeping is part of the deliverable. Location permissions, and restrictions on filming in secure, clinical or educational settings, sit on top.
Delivery specifications matter more than they appear to. Resolution and colour profile for print against web, aspect ratios and durations for each platform, captions and subtitles and audio description for accessibility compliance, alternative language versions, and delivery of editable project files and raw footage rather than finished exports are all contractual. Metadata and asset management -- keyword tagging, consent status and licence expiry recorded against each file -- is what makes a library usable later, and a commission delivered without it produces assets nobody can find.
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 photography media in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 37 photography media records from 30 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Inravisión (5 records); Idecut (2 records); Instituto Colombiano de Ballet Clásico Incolballet (2 records); Sena Regional Nariño Grupo de Apoyo Administrativo Mixto (2 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (1 record); Agencia de Desarrollo Rural (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 35% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Inravisión | 5 | 14% |
| Idecut | 2 | 5.4% |
| Instituto Colombiano de Ballet Clásico Incolballet | 2 | 5.4% |
| Sena Regional Nariño Grupo de Apoyo Administrativo Mixto | 2 | 5.4% |
| Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT | 1 | 2.7% |
| Agencia de Desarrollo Rural | 1 | 2.7% |
What are photography media contracts worth in Colombia?
37 of the 37 records publish a contract value. The median is $7,457 and the largest single published value is $20,000. By size, 37 under $100k. 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 | 37 | 100% |
| between $100k and $1M | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to photography media tenders in Colombia?
Across the 27 Colombia photography media notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 180 days. A quarter of them allowed 90 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 333. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are photography media tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 10 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 36, spread across 12 separate months of activity since 17 February 2023. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 January 2026, 248 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia photography media records on this page come from?
These 37 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (20), SECOP II (17). 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 Photography Media tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 37 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Colombia
Never Miss a Colombia Government Contract
Finding Colombia tenders usually means a local portal, a local registration and someone who reads the language. Get an alert you can read when a new photography media opportunity is published there.
Start Free Trial