Plan-making, evidence base and the consultation that cannot be shortened
Planning commissions are procured around a statutory process with fixed stages, and the timetable belongs to the process rather than to the supplier. Plan preparation runs through evidence gathering, options, draft publication, formal consultation, examination by an independent person and adoption, each with its own consultation period and its own opportunity for objection. A bid whose programme assumes a linear run from brief to document has not read the statutory sequence, and the supplier will carry the cost of the difference.
The evidence base is the bulk of the work and is usually let as a set of specialist studies: population and household projections, housing need, employment land, retail and town centre capacity, transport modelling, flood risk, landscape and heritage character, infrastructure capacity and viability appraisal. Each must be defensible at examination, because an evidence document that cannot withstand cross-examination takes the plan down with it. Buyers therefore weight the credentials of named specialists heavily and frequently require attendance at examination as part of the commission.
Consultation and engagement are specified deliverables with their own standards. Reaching groups who do not normally respond, providing accessible materials, publishing representations and demonstrating how they were considered, and maintaining an auditable record are all requirements, and failure on them is a common ground of legal challenge. Masterplanning and design code commissions sit alongside plan-making with a different skill mix, and buyers increasingly require digital outputs -- mapped policy, machine-readable constraints -- rather than documents alone.
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 urban planning in Colombia?
GlobalGov holds 47 urban planning records from 29 distinct buying organisations in Colombia. The most frequent publishers are Planeación Municipal Cali** (12 records); Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT (2 records); Alcaldia Municipio de Villavicencio (2 records); Alcaldía Municipio de Bello (2 records); Alcaldía Municipio de Palmira (2 records); Igac Sede Central * (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 47% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Planeación Municipal Cali** | 12 | 26% |
| Agencia Nacional de Tierras - ANT | 2 | 4.3% |
| Alcaldia Municipio de Villavicencio | 2 | 4.3% |
| Alcaldía Municipio de Bello | 2 | 4.3% |
| Alcaldía Municipio de Palmira | 2 | 4.3% |
| Igac Sede Central * | 2 | 4.3% |
What are urban planning contracts worth in Colombia?
47 of the 47 records publish a contract value. The median is $6,446 and the largest single published value is $528,000. By size, 44 under $100k, 3 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 44 | 94% |
| between $100k and $1M | 3 | 6.4% |
| between $1M and $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to urban planning tenders in Colombia?
Across the 27 Colombia urban planning notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 133 days. A quarter of them allowed 97 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 201. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (3.7%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are urban planning tenders published in Colombia?
Colombia published 16 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 44, spread across 18 separate months of activity since 14 January 2023. January is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 27 January 2026, 247 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the Colombia urban planning records on this page come from?
These 47 records are collected from 2 official sources: SECOP II (33), SECOP II (14). 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 Urban Planning tenders in Colombia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 47 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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