The applications for the 2025 Procura+ Awards are now open! This year public authorities can apply in three categories, including the Global Initiative of the Year, allowing for the first time submissions for all over the world. To submit an application, fill in the form here. Deadline: 31 March 2025 (23:59 CET)
The three categories for which public authorities can submit an application this year are:
- Sustainable Procurement of the Year: This category will reward procurements which integrate aspects of sustainability, including environmental, economic, circular and social elements. It aims to showcase procurements which include a strategic and therefore holistic approach to implementing public procurement.
- Innovation Procurement of the Year: This category will reward those procurements which use innovative approaches in their purchasing practices, as well as those that foster innovation by purchasing cutting-edge products, services and works and see the public authority as a launch customer, driving sustainable development.
- Global Initiative of the Year: With this category the Procura+ Awards go beyond Europe, seeking to showcase good practices globally. It will reward global outstanding public procurement initiatives, such as programmes, policies, actions, guidance and tools that contribute towards strategic, sustainable, circular and innovation procurement.
The Procura+ Awards are an ICLEI Europe initiative giving visibility to the most dynamic, forward-looking and innovative public authorities. They seek to highlight public procurement initiatives with a strong potential for replication and scaling up, serving as an excellent showcase for using sustainable, circular and innovation procurement instruments to purchase cutting edge solutions.
In 2024 the Norwegian Central Procurement Body won in the category Sustainable Procurement of the Year for its framework agreement on the reuse and recycling of used ICT equipment. ICLEI Member Malmö (Sweden) received the Award in the category Innovation Procurement of the Year for promoting accessibility through universal design. Finally, the category Procurement Initiative of the Year put ICLEI Member Lisbon (Portugal) in the spotlight for development of its Sustainable Procurement Management System. More information about past winners and finalists can be found here.
The winners and finalists are decided by a jury of experienced public procurement experts and policy makers assessing the applications. The names of the jury will be revealed soon.