Policy Advisory Government Tenders in Colombia

Advice to government, and the terms that decide whether it can be relied on

Policy advisory work differs from management consulting in what it has to withstand. The output will be used to justify a decision that may be scrutinised by a legislature, a court or the press, so the analysis has to be defensible on its own terms: assumptions stated, sources cited, uncertainty quantified rather than smoothed, and options assessed including the option of doing nothing. Evaluation weights analytical method and the record of named advisers, and a proposal that promises conclusions before analysis is a warning sign to any competent panel.

Independence and disclosure are contractual. Advisers must declare interests, including work for parties with a stake in the outcome, and the declaration usually covers the firm rather than the individual. Buyers increasingly require the advice, or a version of it, to be publishable, and they specify how the supplier's advice is distinguished from the buyer's own decision in the published record. Freedom of information regimes mean that material a supplier expects to remain private frequently will not, and commercial confidentiality claims are narrowly construed.

The scope is usually phased around a decision timetable that is political rather than contractual. Ministerial changes, elections, consultation periods and legislative windows move dates the supplier does not control, so the contract needs a mechanism for pause, acceleration and scope change. Impact assessment work brings specific requirements -- costs and benefits quantified on a stated methodology, distributional analysis, and assessment against equality and environmental duties -- and those methodologies are usually prescribed rather than proposed.

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 policy advisory in Colombia?

GlobalGov holds 144 policy advisory records from 96 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Departamento Nacional de Planeación (14 records); Concejo Distrital de Santiago de Cali (4 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (3 records); Concejo Distrital de Barranquilla (3 records); Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (3 records); Ministerio DEL Interior (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 21% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are policy advisory contracts worth in Colombia?

144 of the 144 records publish a contract value. The median is $11,335 and the largest single published value is $740,341. By size, 143 under $100k, 1 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to policy advisory tenders in Colombia?

Across the 124 Colombia policy advisory notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 278 days. A quarter of them allowed 158 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 340. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are policy advisory tenders published in Colombia?

Colombia publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. That is 14% more than the 21 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 139, spread across 18 separate months of activity since 8 August 2020. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 30 January 2026, 244 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

Where do the Colombia policy advisory records on this page come from?

These 144 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (86), SECOP II (58). 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 Policy Advisory tenders in Colombia

No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 144 records GlobalGov holds for it.

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