Who contracts with the State, and with what record
An entity that awards, an oversight body that audits, a citizen oversight group or a journalist following a contract query the same registries: SECOP, the Procuraduría, the Contraloría, the ANCP-CCE Relatoría, the Diario Oficial. Croma delivers them as one API with the source in every answer.
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SECOP contracts lookup
Open the full toolState contracting is already public; what is missing is being able to ask it questions
SECOP II records every process an entity publishes, with its procurement method, official budget, bidders, award and the signed contracts, with their additions, guarantees and payments. Before awarding you have to review the bidder: the Procuraduría's SIRI, which holds disciplinary, criminal, contractual, fiscal and loss-of-office entries; the Contraloría's Boletín de Responsables Fiscales, created by Ley 610 de 2000; the Contaduría's Boletín de Deudores Morosos del Estado, which bars contracting with the State until the debt is paid. A legal question about a procurement method is resolved with the opinions of the ANCP-CCE Relatoría. And the rules that enable all of it change in the Diario Oficial and in Función Pública's Gestor Normativo.
Croma queries each registry with the identifier the file already has (the entity's NIT, the bidder's cédula or NIT, the process code, the OCID in Peru) and returns JSON with the same shape and the source that produced it. A contracting office verifies the bidder in a sequence of calls; an oversight body or a citizen oversight group walks through all of an entity's processes; a journalist tries the same lookup for free on the web, with no sign-up.
What this team queries, and in what order
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Entities, processes and contractors
SECOP II by entity, by supplier, by process and by contract, with bidders, awards, modifications, annual plans and sanctions; the ANCP-CCE Relatoría for opinions; the OECE in Peru, by OCID.
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Regulations for the public lawyer
Función Pública's Gestor Normativo, the Diario Oficial and the Gaceta del Congreso from the Imprenta Nacional, laws and decrees with their validity, the decisions of the Consejo de Estado and the rulings of the Corte Constitucional.
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Bidder verification
Procuraduría, Contraloría and Contaduría by cédula or NIT, sanctions recorded in SECOP by supplier, cédula validity at the Registraduría; in Peru, the Tribunal del Servicio Civil's resolutions on public servants.
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Who the contractor is
RUES by NIT for the registration, the status and the legal representative; Supersociedades for the reported figures; SICAAC to know whether the contractor is in reorganization; SUNAT by RUC in Peru.
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What changes with the official record in the flow
Bidders verified before the award
Procuraduría, Contraloría, Contaduría and SECOP sanctions by cédula or NIT in one sequence, each answer with the source and the date. The evaluation report is built from records, not screenshots.
All of an entity's contracting, queryable
The processes a public NIT published, by date range, with procurement method, budget, phase and status, and the contracts with their additions and payments. What used to be a loose file is now a query.
Traceability for the report and for the story
Every answer names the official registry that produced it and found: false is a definitive answer, not an error. It works the same for an audit report as for a journalistic investigation.
What the auditor and the editor are going to ask
An oversight report or a news story is worth what its sources are worth, and here every answer names the official registry that produced it. When there is no record, the API answers found: false, a definitive answer that can also be cited. Fields are documented in the OpenAPI, the deprecation policy is 90 days with Deprecation and Sunset headers, and the status page publishes incidents, so the same query can be repeated months later and compared. Lookups on individuals, a bidder, a public servant, require a legitimate purpose under Ley 1581 de 2012; the purpose belongs to whoever queries, and in the free tools neither the cédula nor the result is stored in a URL.
Official sources only
Every answer names the official registry that produced it. Nothing comes from purchased databases or third-party summaries.
Results that are never indexed
In the free tools the query and the result live in your browser, never in a URL. In the API: encryption in transit, access control and audit logging.
Personal data, with rules
Lookups on individuals require a legitimate purpose under each country's law: Ley 1581 in Colombia, LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 29733 in Peru, LGPD in Brazil. Croma delivers the record; the purpose and the legal basis are yours.
A stable contract
Every field is documented in the OpenAPI, with a 90-day deprecation policy and Deprecation and Sunset headers before anything is retired.
Frequently asked questions
Other industries
Banks and fintech
Onboarding, origination, court monitoring and collections on official records.
Insurers
Underwriting and claims by plate, broker verification, screening and litigation against the insurer.
Law firms
Batch radicados, case law, regulatory change, state contracting and counterparties, by API or MCP.
Collections and debt recovery
Daily court monitoring of the portfolio, insolvency, vehicle collateral and the court for each radicado.
Procurement and suppliers
Supplier onboarding and re-evaluation: registry, disqualifications, State contracts and applicable rules.
Ask public procurement questions from your code
One key covers SECOP, the ANCP-CCE Relatoría, the oversight bodies and the regulations in Colombia, and the OECE in Peru. Try the lookup by entity for free or book a demo with your processes.