2025 PROCURA+ AWARDS

The application phase for the 2025 Procura+ Awards is now open. This year there will be three categories:

• 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: For the first time public authorities from all over the world can submit an application for the Procura+ Awards. This category goes beyond Europe and seeks to showcase good practices globally. It will focus on global outstanding public procurement initiatives, such as programmes, policies, actions, guidance and tools that contribute towards strategic, sustainable, circular and innovation procurement.

APPLY NOW by flling in the application form! Deadline: 30 April 2025 (23:59 CET).
For an overview of all the information your submission needs to contain, please take a look at the skeleton form.

PROCURA+ AWARDS JURY

The 2025 Procura+ Awards will be assessed by a jury of four procurement experts and policy makers:

• Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö and Chair of the Procura+ Network
• Mark Hidson, Global Director, ICLEI’s Sustainable Procurement Capacity Center
• Erika Bozzay, Acting Deputy Head at the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, OECD
• Jorge Laguna Celis, Director of UNEP's One Planet Network

ABOUT THE AWARDS

The Procura+ Awards highlight sustainable, circular and innovation procurements and tender procedures and give visibility to the most dynamic, forward-looking and innovative public authorities and their initiatives.

The procured solutions will have a strong potential for replication and scaling up and will be an excellent showcase in using sustainable, circular and innovation procurement instruments to purchase cutting edge solutions.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Any public or semi-public authority can apply. You do not need to be a Procura+ participant to enter the competition.
• If your procurement or initiative was previously submitted but not awarded, you have the opportunity to resubmit it, provided that it has undergone significant changes.
• For applications related to a specific procurement, tenders must have been awarded between 1 October 2022 and 31 December 2024.
• For more information about the terms and conditions, please see here.  
• Applications can be submitted no later than 23:59 CET on 30 April 2025. Any queries regarding this contest should be submitted to: Mara Inzaina, Procura+ Network Community Support, mara.inzaina@iclei.org