Latin America Public Procurement Data (2025-2026)

Latin America public procurement data for Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru: what each source covers, contract counts, USD amounts and which file to buy.

Short answer: for Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay, our Latin America public procurement dataset unifies 470,221 contracts with companies signed or awarded from January 2025 to September 2026, with supplier tax ID and amounts converted to USD (US$80.7 billion in total), for US$599 one time. Peru is covered by a separate SEACE dataset with 37,282 contract awards in 2026, for US$299. Each country publishes different fields, so this guide explains what you get for each one.

Why buy procurement data instead of watching tenders

Open calls last days or weeks. Awarded contracts show what repeats: the agency that renews maintenance every year, the hospital that buys supplies by reverse auction, the municipality that awards works in the second half of the year. With that history you can prepare documents before the call, benchmark prices and know who you compete against. That is why sales teams selling to governments (B2G), consultancies and researchers start from contract data.

Latin America public procurement data by country

The first four sources make up the unified file. All of them keep only legal-entity suppliers (companies, consortia and joint ventures); individuals are excluded and no officials, representatives, contacts or bank data are included.

The unified file: Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay in one schema

The unified dataset has 39 columns with Spanish names: country, source, process and contract ID, buying entity, supplier name and tax ID (NIT, CNPJ or RUC), supplier type, SME flag (Colombia), purpose, contract type, category, UNSPSC code (Colombia), normalized and original procurement method, status, amount in local currency, exchange rate, amount in USD, dates and location.

Key numbers:

• 90,163 distinct suppliers and 4,156 buying entities.
• Normalized method: public bidding (202,984 rows), direct contracting (116,202), small-value procurement (77,803) and other (73,232). The original method is kept in modalidad_original. In Brazil, pregão and concorrência count as public bidding, and dispensa and inexigibilidade as direct contracting.
• USD conversion at the monthly average rate of the signing month: TRM from Banco de la República for COP, PTAX from Banco Central do Brasil for BRL, and a daily market reference for PYG. The rate is included in every row.
• Supplier aggregates: contracts in the dataset, total USD amount and number of sources where the supplier appears (65 suppliers appear in more than one source).
• 6,835 consortium rows.

Brazil

Brazil's 281,745 rows are contracts and notas de empenho (budget commitment notes) from the federal government only, not states or municipalities. By method, 195,952 rows are public bidding and 82,910 direct contracting. By category, 198,565 are goods, 70,591 services and 7,139 works. The converted total is about US$42.4 billion. The source has some loading errors (for example inverted decimal separators): 85 extreme values across the file are flagged in monto_atipico and left without a USD amount, and very high values are worth reviewing before you sum.

Colombia

Colombia contributes 179,743 SECOP II contracts for about US$36.8 billion, with a median of about US$19,400 per contract. Competitive methods are fully included. For direct contracting and special regimes, contracts are included when the supplier has a recognizable company name (S.A.S., Ltda., S.A., consorcio, unión temporal and similar), so some direct contracts may be underrepresented. If Colombia is your main market, the dedicated files are more complete; see our Colombia public procurement data guide.

Paraguay

Paraguay's 5,727 rows come from the DNCP under the OCDS standard, from 349 buying entities and 1,219 suppliers. Most are small-value procurement (3,675) and public bidding (1,712). The source provides the first awarded supplier and award date for each process, but not an awarded amount, so Paraguay rows are useful for who-buys-from-whom analysis rather than for totals.

World Bank-financed contracts

3,006 contracts financed by the World Bank in 18 countries add US$1.49 billion. This is the only way Mexico, Argentina and Chile appear in the unified file. For full project context, the World Bank projects and contracts dataset has 21,521 contracts in 32 countries.

Peru: SEACE contract awards

Peru is not in the unified file (it only appears through 250 World Bank contracts). The Peru SEACE dataset covers 37,282 awards (buena pro) granted between January 5 and September 24, 2026 to companies and consortia, in 34,918 processes and 2,578 buying entities. The total awarded is S/ 46,332 million, plus 211 awards in dollars for US$180 million.

Two fields help when preparing bids. First, the reference value: across 36,973 rows with both values above zero, the median ratio of awarded amount to reference value is 0.99. Second, the number of bidders: the median is 9 per award, while 3,049 rows record a single bidder. 28,040 rows include the signed contract with number, date, amount and term.

How to use procurement data in 6 steps

1. Translate your offer into codes. UNSPSC for Colombia and Peru, CUBSO for Peru, plus keywords in Spanish or Portuguese for the purpose field.
2. Filter past contracts. Use categoria_codigo or objeto in the unified file and codigo_unspsc or descripcion in SEACE.
3. Rank entities. Group by buying entity and compute contract count, total and median. Repeat buyers are your target accounts.
4. Study method and timing. See whether each entity buys by bidding, reverse auction or direct award, and in which months.
5. Map competitors. Group by supplier tax ID to see who wins, how often, at what price and whether they bid in consortia.
6. Watch new calls. With your entity and code list, monitor the official portals so you do not miss new processes.

FAQ

Do these datasets show open tenders?

No. They contain contracts and awards already granted. They tell you whom to sell to and how; open calls are on the official portals.

Why is Peru a separate file?

The unified file merges SECOP II, Compras.gov.br, DNCP and World Bank awards. Peru's SEACE data has its own structure (reference value, number of bidders, consortium code), so it is sold as its own 36-column file.

Are amounts comparable across countries?

Yes, through monto_usd, converted with the monthly average exchange rate of the signing month. Paraguay has no awarded amount in the source.

Does it include personal data?

No. Awards to individuals were excluded and officials, representatives and contacts were removed.

What formats and payment options are there?

CSV, Excel (.xlsx) or JSON, paid once with Mercado Pago or PayPal. Every dataset page shows the schema and 25 rows for free without signing up, and you can request 500 free rows by email.

Start with the sample

Review the free rows of the Latin America public procurement dataset and the Peru SEACE awards. More sources are in our public tenders category.

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