Colombia’s SAVIA SALUD advertised a notice 327 times its median

Katrīna Ozola
Katrīna Ozola
Writes on procurement data and what public records do and do not disclose. Based in Riga.
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SAVIA SALUD EPS – ALIANZA MEDELLIN ANTIOQUIA EPS S.A.S sits within Colombia’s public healthcare purchasing system, where health insurers and hospitals publish opportunities for medicines, clinical services, supplies and wider institutional needs. Its latest notice names ESE HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEDELLIN LUZ CASTRO GUTIERREZ, bringing a hospital buyer into view alongside the insurer’s wider purchasing activity. The striking feature is the scale assigned to this particular advertised opportunity.

KEY NUMBERS
180512M COP
The notice, as advertised
327×
The buyer’s median notice over 180 days
0.2×
Everything else it advertised in 180 days, combined

The notice was published on 2026-09-16 for ESE HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEDELLIN LUZ CASTRO GUTIERREZ. Its advertised value is 180512267116 COP, while the closing date is not published. That distinction matters: the figure describes what the buyer put into the notice, not what a supplier has won or what the final contract will be worth.

Across the buyer’s other notices in the 180-day period, the median notice is 551520000 COP. The focal notice is listed as 327 times that median. Its advertised value is also recorded as 0.2 times the combined value of everything else, while framework ceilings are excluded from the comparison. Those measures identify an unusually large notice, not an award outcome.

The ordering places the focal notice at 180512267116 COP, ahead of the next-largest listed notice at 161589105282 COP. The remaining named values descend to 80371200000 COP, 32896800000 COP, 27720000000 COP and 24955240113 COP. Read this as a comparison of advertised notice values: it shows where this opportunity sits in the buyer’s purchasing activity, not who will supply it or how many bids were received.

NoticePublishedValue
ESE HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEDELLIN LUZ CASTRO GUTIERREZ2026-09-16180,512,267,116 COP
https://community.secop.gov.co/Public/Tendering/OpportunityD2026-08-12161,589,105,282 COP
COOPERATIVA DE HOSPITALES DE ANTIOQUIA COHAN2026-07-0980,371,200,000 COP
FUNDACIÓN COLOMBIANA DE CANCEROLOGÍA CLÍNICA VIDA2026-09-1632,896,800,000 COP
SOCIEDAD MEDICA RIONEGRO S.A. SOMER S.A.2026-09-1627,720,000,000 COP
MEDIC COLOMBIA SAS2026-09-0724,955,240,113 COP
Advertised values in COP, this buyer only. Framework ceilings excluded.

This is an advertised-value outlier, not an awarded contract.

WHY IT MATTERS

For suppliers, the procurement mechanism changes how the outlier should be read. A published value can set the commercial scale of an opportunity without proving that the amount will be awarded or spent. With the closing date not published and framework ceilings excluded, the notice is a lead for market monitoring, not evidence of a completed deal. A repeat win or a single bid, where either later occurs, would still not by itself establish impropriety.


Data: Otnox — live procurement intelligence across 56 markets. Basis: 308 distinct priced notices published by SAVIA SALUD EPS – ALIANZA MEDELLIN ANTIOQUIA EPS S.A.S in the last 180 days, values as advertised, 2026-04-13..2026-10-10. Reproducible in the Otnox platform.

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