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Livelihoods & Enterprise Development tenders in Colombia

9 open notices

Livelihood support, income-generating activities, MSME and enterprise development, value chains, employment and skills, financial inclusion and microfinance.

Who buys livelihoods & enterprise development in Colombia

These are the organisations with the most livelihoods & enterprise development notices open in Colombia right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Livelihoods & Enterprise Development market snapshot

Since 1 Sept 2026, FreeTender has recorded 66 livelihoods & enterprise development notices in Colombia, 7 of them open today. The median bid window is 5 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is COP 70.7 million (58 priced notices).

Notices on record
66
Open now
7
Median bid window
5 days
Median stated value
COP 70.7 million
SeptOct

Most active livelihoods & enterprise development buyers

By sub-sector

  • Livelihood Support1 notices
  • Financial Inclusion1 notices

Where the work is

  • Distrito Capital de Bogotá11 notices
  • Boyacá9 notices
  • Caldas8 notices
  • Casanare5 notices
  • Meta5 notices
  • Bolívar3 notices
  • Santander3 notices
  • Cesar3 notices
  • Caquetá3 notices
  • Cauca3 notices

Procedures used

  • Open tender29 notices
  • Request for quotation23 notices
  • rfi6 notices
  • Auction6 notices
  • Grant / funding call2 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Across the livelihoods & enterprise development notices we currently hold for Colombia, the most common form is the open tender or invitation to bid, followed by auction. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Livelihoods and enterprise work is delivery-heavy and measured in outcomes — households reached, enterprises started or sustained, jobs created, income change against a baseline. That makes local presence and a credible community-mobilisation approach as important as technical design, and it is why these contracts frequently go to national organisations or to consortia pairing an international firm with local implementers. Expect payment tied to milestones or verified results, obligations to disaggregate reporting by sex and age, and scrutiny of how benefits will continue after the contract ends. Where the assignment involves grants, revolving funds or matching capital to participants, the financial-management and audit requirements are substantially heavier than for an ordinary services contract.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.

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