Colombia public contracts 2025 awarded to companies, SECOP II: 143,396 contracts (September 2026)
143,396 Colombian government contracts signed in 2025 with companies and consortia, across all procurement methods (including direct awards): buyer, supplier with tax ID (NIT), purpose, value in COP and USD, payments and dates.
143,396 rows, 49 columns, CSV. US$299.00, one-time payment.
FAQ about this dataset
- What does this dataset include?
- 143,396 rows and 49 columns: id_contrato, referencia_contrato, proceso_compra, fecha_firma, fecha_inicio, fecha_fin, duracion, estado, entidad, nit_entidad, orden_entidad, rama, among others. Before buying you can see the full schema with each column's fill rate and the first 25 rows for free, without signing up.
- Where does the data come from?
- Open dataset "SECOP II - Contratos Electrónicos" published by Colombia's National Public Procurement Agency (Colombia Compra Eficiente) on datos.gov.co under Law 1712 of 2014, accessed 29 September 2026. Collected and processed by datasets.lat (as of September 29, 2026).
- How often is it updated?
- Planned update frequency: yearly. Buyers also get every new version of this dataset we publish at no extra cost.
- What format is the download?
- Your choice: CSV (UTF-8, with headers), Excel (.xlsx) or JSON. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Python, R or any SQL database. The download is available right after payment and all three formats are in your library.
- What license does it have?
- License: commercial use (internal; no resale of the file as is). Details are in the terms of use.
- How much does it cost?
- US$299 as a one-time payment with Mercado Pago or PayPal. It is not a subscription.
What is included
- 143,396 SECOP II contracts signed between 1 January and 31 December 2025, no minimum value.
- Only contracts with companies, consortia and joint ventures (supplier with a legal-entity NIT). Contracts with individuals were excluded.
- 3,081 contracting entities and 44,088 distinct suppliers, total value COP 140.97 trillion (USD 35.2 billion).
- All procurement methods: direct contracting (42,051), minimum-value (36,360), special regime (27,379), direct contracting with offers (10,046), abbreviated selection (8,167), special regime with offers (7,496), reverse auction (6,828), merit-based selection (1,984), public tender (1,857), public works tender (962) and others (266).
- 73,966 contracts from competitive methods and 69,430 from direct or special-regime contracting.
- By quarter: Q1 26,894, Q2 32,170, Q3 34,992, Q4 49,340.
- 17,152 contracts of COP 1 billion or more. Median value: COP 77,988,000.
- 49 columns (Spanish names): entity and NIT, government level, sector, department and city, supplier and NIT, SME flag, supplier type (company or consortium), purpose, contract type, method and legal basis, UNSPSC code, value, paid, invoiced and pending amounts, advance payment, funding source, dates, duration, status and link to the SECOP process.
Computed columns
- valor_contrato_usd: value converted at the monthly average TRM (Banco de la República) of the signing month, shown in trm_cop_por_usd.
- modalidad_competitiva (yes/no), trimestre and tipo_proveedor.
- proveedor_contratos_2025, proveedor_valor_total_2025_cop, proveedor_entidades_distintas: the supplier's 2025 contract count, value and number of buying entities.
- entidad_contratos_2025: the entity's 2025 contracts with companies.
- valor_atipico: 7 contracts with impossible values for their method (data-entry errors at the source) are flagged; they keep the reported value but have no USD value and are excluded from totals.
Coverage
- Competitive methods: complete. Direct and special-regime contracting: complete for every contract type (supplies, purchases, works, leases, agreements, Decree 092 and others) and for service contracts of COP 100 million or more; smaller service contracts are included when the supplier name carries a corporate form (SAS, S.A., LTDA, consortium, foundation, cooperative and similar). Overall the file holds about 95% of 2025 SECOP II contracts with a NIT supplier.
Use cases
- Selling to government: which entities buy what you offer, from whom and at what price.
- Competitive intelligence: your competitors' contracts and amounts nationwide.
- Journalism and oversight: direct versus competitive contracting by entity and region.
- Risk and KYB: a supplier's public contracting history.
How it was prepared
- Deduplicated by contract ID, sorted newest first.
- No personal data: names and IDs of legal representatives, supervisors and spending officers, and bank data, were removed. 1,867 contracts whose NIT belongs to an individual were also excluded.
- Numbers as numbers, ISO dates, empty columns removed.
Complements our 2026 SECOP II contracts dataset.
Columns
- id_contrato (string)
- referencia_contrato (string)
- proceso_compra (string)
- fecha_firma (date)
- fecha_inicio (date)
- fecha_fin (date)
- duracion (string)
- estado (string)
- entidad (string)
- nit_entidad (integer)
- orden_entidad (string)
- rama (string)
- sector (string)
- entidad_centralizada (string)
- departamento (string)
- ciudad (string)
- proveedor (string)
- nit_proveedor (integer)
- proveedor_es_pyme (string)
- objeto (string)
- tipo_contrato (string)
- modalidad (string)
- justificacion_modalidad (string)
- codigo_categoria_unspsc (integer)
- valor_contrato_cop (number)
- valor_pagado_cop (number)
- valor_facturado_cop (number)
- valor_pendiente_pago_cop (number)
- valor_pendiente_ejecucion_cop (number)
- origen_recursos (string)
- destino_gasto (string)
- dias_adicionados (integer)
- prorrogable (string)
- habilita_anticipo (string)
- valor_anticipo_cop (number)
- liquidado (string)
- obligacion_ambiental (string)
- postconflicto (string)
- url_secop (string)
- tipo_proveedor (string)
- modalidad_competitiva (string)
- trimestre (string)
- trm_cop_por_usd (number)
- valor_contrato_usd (number)
- valor_atipico (string)
- proveedor_contratos_2025 (integer)
- proveedor_valor_total_2025_cop (integer)
- proveedor_entidades_distintas (integer)
- entidad_contratos_2025 (integer)