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SECOP II
Read on the TRINTA daily scan
SECOP II is Colombia's transactional procurement system, run by Colombia Compra Eficiente, and one of the most transparent registers in Latin America: it publishes not only the notices but the contracts and, procedure by procedure, how many offers arrived.
What publishes here
Colombia's national electronic procurement system, run by Colombia Compra Eficiente.
How to register as a supplier on SECOP II
Suppliers that want to take part in procurement processes through SECOP II: Colombia Compra Eficiente says that once the supplier account is created, the supplier can take part through the platform. Source: colombiacompra.gov.co
Have the registration documents ready; for a company they are a certificate with financial and organisational capacity indicators, a list of contracts proving experience, audited financial statements and a signed authorisation to consult databases.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.coCreate the administrator user at community.secop.gov.co under "Registro", with an email address you can reach and the time zone of the supplier's location.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.coActivate the user from the link sent by email, then log in.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.coAs administrator, create the supplier account: name and tax ID (NIT), type "Proveedor", business area "Privado", the organisation type, and the general and legal representative details.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.coAttach the required documents and click "Finalizar"; SECOP II confirms that the supplier account is created.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.coOther users from the company register as supplier users and request access to the account, which the administrator accepts.
Source: colombiacompra.gov.co
Checked on against the official sources linked above. Procedures change, and each tender's own documents decide.
The market around it, Colombia
SECOP II is one of the named national channels in Colombia. Beside them, 9 more sources publish their own notices; they are counted by category on the country page, never listed, because the complete source map is what sets the radar apart.
SECOP's completeness creates its own problem: volume. Hundreds of thousands of processes a year, a fraction of which is genuinely contestable. Reading it daily and scoring for fit is precisely the work a radar exists to do.
What TRINTA does with it
SECOP II is read on the TRINTA daily scan. The radar is built per client: it starts from the company's real catalogue, builds a multilingual keyword profile, then scores every notice 0 to 100 against what the company actually sells, with the reasoning shown. Procedure documents are retrieved and attached, and a short scored list arrives each morning.
Frequently asked questions
01What is SECOP II?
SECOP II (colombiacompra.gov.co) is colombia's national electronic procurement system, run by Colombia Compra Eficiente. It is one of the 10 sources the TRINTA registry maps for public tenders in Colombia.
02Do all public tenders in Colombia appear on SECOP II?
No single source carries the whole market. Beside the named national channels, 9 more sources in Colombia publish their own notices, counted by category on the Colombia page. Watching one platform is not watching the market.
03How can a company monitor SECOP II?
You can follow colombiacompra.gov.co directly, or let a radar do it: TRINTA reads SECOP II on the daily scan, beside the other sources in Colombia, and scores every notice 0 to 100 against your company's real catalogue, with the reasoning shown.
04How competitive are tenders on SECOP II?
Measured on 34,063 competitive awarded processes from January to July 2026, 46.1% received exactly one offer and 63.6% two or fewer. The most formal procedures are often the least contested. TRINTA publishes the full measurement in the Barometro LatAm at trinta.ai/barometro-latam.
05How do I register as a supplier on SECOP II?
Suppliers that want to take part in procurement processes through SECOP II: Colombia Compra Eficiente says that once the supplier account is created, the supplier can take part through the platform. 1. Have the registration documents ready; for a company they are a certificate with financial and organisational capacity indicators, a list of contracts proving experience, audited financial statements and a signed authorisation to consult databases. 2. Create the administrator user at community.secop.gov.co under "Registro", with an email address you can reach and the time zone of the supplier's location. 3. Activate the user from the link sent by email, then log in. 4. As administrator, create the supplier account: name and tax ID (NIT), type "Proveedor", business area "Privado", the organisation type, and the general and legal representative details. 5. Attach the required documents and click "Finalizar"; SECOP II confirms that the supplier account is created. 6. Other users from the company register as supplier users and request access to the account, which the administrator accepts. Checked on 11 Oct 2026 against the official sources linked above. Procedures change, and each tender's own documents decide.
Tell us the markets, we send the map
Name the countries you are weighing up. You get back where public tenders are published in each one, how much of that we read every day, and what an EU company needs before it may bid there. An email, not a call.
See what the radar finds on SECOP II
The demo is prepared on your catalogue, with real notices from your markets, before the call.