Commissioned studies, methodology scoring and the right to publish
A commissioned study is bought for a decision the buyer has to make, and the tender usually states the decision. That matters because the strongest bids answer the decision rather than the question as written: they say what the study can and cannot establish, what the sample will support, and where the evidence will remain thin. Evaluation in this category is weighted heavily toward methodology, and a proposal that claims certainty the method cannot deliver is scored down by any competent panel.
The practical constraints are access and ethics. Studies that involve interviews, survey respondents or administrative data need approvals before fieldwork begins, and the timetable for those approvals is frequently longer than the fieldwork itself. Data protection obligations govern how personal data is collected, stored, anonymised and destroyed, and the contract normally names the roles of each party in handling it. A bid whose programme starts fieldwork immediately after award has usually not accounted for this.
Ownership and publication are negotiated terms with real consequences. Public buyers commonly take ownership of the report and the underlying data, reserve the right to publish, and require the raw data and code in a reusable form so the analysis can be reproduced. Researchers often want the right to publish independently, and the compromise is usually a delay period rather than a veto. Bidders should also read the clause on findings the buyer dislikes: the credible contracts protect the researcher's conclusions explicitly, and the absence of that protection tells you something about the commission.
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 research and studies in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 1,064 research and studies records from 234 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Agencia Para la Reincorporación y la Normalización (94 records); Instituto Colombiano Para la Evaluación de la Educación - Icfes (94 records); Biblioteca Publica Piloto de Medellin Para America Latina (59 records); Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales - Anla (42 records); Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador (36 records); Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) (30 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 33% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agencia Para la Reincorporación y la Normalización | 94 | 8.8% |
| Instituto Colombiano Para la Evaluación de la Educación - Icfes | 94 | 8.8% |
| Biblioteca Publica Piloto de Medellin Para America Latina | 59 | 5.5% |
| Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales - Anla | 42 | 3.9% |
| Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo Comprador | 36 | 3.4% |
| Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) | 30 | 2.8% |
What are research and studies contracts worth in Colombia?
1,063 of the 1,064 records publish a contract value. The median is $11,356 and the largest single published value is $7.8M. By size, 1,051 under $100k, 10 between $100k and $1M, 2 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 | 1,051 | 99% |
| between $100k and $1M | 10 | 0.9% |
| between $1M and $10M | 2 | 0.2% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to research and studies tenders in Colombia?
Across the 974 Colombia research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 288 days. A quarter of them allowed 125 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 351. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are research and studies tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia publishes about 5 notices a month in this category, 57 in the last twelve months. That is 42% fewer than the 99 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,013, spread across 47 separate months of activity since 26 January 2018. 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.
How does Colombia compare with other research and studies markets?
Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Colombia ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 1,064 here). Within Colombia itself, research and studies is the 9th largest of the 77 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Colombia research and studies records on this page come from?
These 1,064 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (840), SECOP II (224). 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 Research and Studies tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 1,064 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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