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September 29, 2025

Jury reveals 2025 Procura+ Awards finalists

The 2025 Procura+ Awards jury has selected its finalists. The Award has three different categories: Sustainable Procurement of the Year, Innovation Procurement of the Year and Global Initiative of the Year. The winners will be announced on 8 October at the Procura+ Seminar in Middelburg (the Netherlands).

The Procura+ Awards-an ICLEI Europe initiative within the context of its Procura+ Network-seek to 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.

ICLEI member Oslo (Norway) is among the nominees in the category Innovation Procurement of the Year, being recognised for launching the ‘Oslo Furniture Reuse Platform-Loopfront’, a pioneering digital solution that integrates circular economy practices into public procurement. Its fellow finalists are Orleans Metropole (France), which has pioneered a sustainable energy project that captures heat from urban wastewater to supply clean energy to residential and university buildings and ANCI Toscana (Italy), nominated for its support of climate resilience through its innovation partnership.

In the Sustainable Procurement of the Year category, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) (Germany) has been recognised for integrating Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) into their public procurement of electric bus charging points. The Oeiras City Council (Portugal) developed a forward-thinking public procurement model for the maintenance of its green spaces, Bretagne Porte de Loire Communauté (France) decided to furnish its new ‘Maison de services Jeunesse & Numérique’ entirely with second-life furniture.

The Global Initiative of the Year is a pioneering category, opening up the Procura+ Awards to public authorities from outside Europe for the first time. Its finalists come from three different continents. The Brazilian Ministry of Management & Innovation in Public Services launched Procure+Brasil, a digital public marketplace aiming to make public procurement more inclusive and sustainable. In New Zealand, the Auckland City Council launched the NGA Puna Pukuenga Programme, which connects individuals facing barriers to work to permanent, living-wage jobs in the water and infrastructure sectors. Finally, UNDP Uzbekistan’s initiative, “The Path to Water Through Life, No One Left Behind,” sought to provide sustainable access to clean water in remote communities of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan.

Learn more at ICLEI sustainable procurement platform webpage.

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