The Procura+ Awards reward successful, sustainable, circular and innovation public procurements that are already running and lead to significant improvements of public goods, services, processes and infrastructure. For the first time, the competition will be open to countries from all over the world.
This year, there will be three categories:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Global Initiative of the Year: This category 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. This category goes beyond Europe and seeks to showcase good practice from all over the world (applications from outside Europe will be considered only for this category)
Please check the following eligibility criteria:
-Any public or semi-public authority can apply (within the meaning of Directive 2014/24/EC or Contracting Entity within the meaning of Directive 2014/25/EC, located in any EU Member State, EEA country or EU candidate or accession country and worldwide for category 3). 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 the attached PDF below.
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