Public procurement as a legal act between entities is based on obligations acquired in accordance with what is outlined in the contract act. In this particular, the purpose of this writing is to describe state contracting in Colombia based on the direction of Law 80 of 1993, which establishes the special formalities thereof. Methodologically it is developed under a qualitative approach based on a literary review of legal documents and writings of specialists on the statement. Finding that the traditional of contracts focuses on voluntary agreements, however, from the point of view of public procurement, this synergy is broken, because the public administration exercises the special provisions when there is a breach by the contractor, exercising unilaterality without resorting to administrative litigation. Therefore, it is concluded how distorted certain contracts have turned out to be, vitiated by acts of corruption that suppress the nature of state contracting framed in the satisfaction of social needs.
