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Haarlem, Koprivnica, BIG and KampC, winners of the Procura+ Awards 2020

1 October 2020

The 2020 Procura+ Awards Ceremony saw two public agencies and two cities going up on the virtual stage to get their recognition for their biggest successes in public procurement: the Belgian public Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in Construction and won the “Sustainable Procurement of the Year” category, the City Koprivnica (Croatia) won the “Innovation Procurement of the Year” category, the Austrian Federal Real Estate Agency (BIG) won the “Outstanding Innovation Procurement in ICT”, and the City of Haarlem won in the category “Procurement Initiative of the Year”. The event took place on 1 October 2020 as part of the Digital Conference “Environmental Considerations in Public Procurement in Europe”, hosted by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the German Environment Agency (UBA).

The excellence of the innovation procurement for extensive reconstruction of the City of Koprivnica (Croatia) was awarded the "Innovation Procurement of the Year" prize. The market dialogue to inform involve market actors in this first of its kind partnership in Croatia to perform a complete reconstruction of a kindergarten building was positively assessed by the jury. In this category, the runner-up was Procura+ Participant City of Malmö with its innovative and ethical ICT procurement process.

The Austrian Federal Real Estate Agency (BIG) and the FABULOS project were competing for the “Outstanding Innovation Procurement in ICT” Award. Finally, BIG got the prize thanks to its innovative approach of using software for sustainable real estate management, supported by an innovation partnership, whereas the FABULOS project was the runner-up with its cross-European pre-commercial procurement of automated public transport services.

The Procura+ participant City of Haarlem (Netherlands) and their cooperative approach to supplier management to achieve a circular and sustainable city was announced as the winner of the “Procurement Initiative of the Year”. The City has worked closely with public maintenance suppliers to create trust partnerships where suppliers ensure that social and sustainability goals are met, while given the freedom to innovate in how they deliver their services. The runner-up in this category was BBG, the Austrian Public Procurement Agency, for its successful integration of sustainability and innovation services within one agency, strengthening both aspects in public procurement.

The “Sustainable Procurement of the Year” Award went to KampC, the Public Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in Construction (Belgium), that took the need for a new office building as occasion to set the bar higher in sustainable and circular construction thanks a to a procurement process that incorporated all aspects of circularity in construction. The sustainable and circular demolition project of the Regional Council of Brittany was the runner-up.

“All these fantastic procurements show that there is great creativity when it comes to driving development and producing new solutions to societal challenges,” said jury member Johanna Engberg, Strategist Innovation Procurement, Swedish Competence Centre for Innovation Procurement.

The jury also decided to grant three honourable mentions: to the University of Edinburgh (UK), in the category ‘Procurement Initiative of the Year’ for involving the research and academic community in achieving sustainable procurement, to the Finnish administrative agency Sarastia Oy, in the category  “Outstanding Innovation Procurement  in ICT” category for pioneering procurement of AI solutions to invoicing processes, and to the Galician Health Services, that used innovation procurement to advance their patient care and purchase high end surgical technology, in the ‘‘Innovation Procurement of the Year”.

Prizes were virtually awarded by Ulf Jaeckel, of German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety who thanked all candidates who applied to this edition of the Procura+ Awards showing so many inspiring and diverse examples for other cities and organisations of how to use the power of public procurement.

The Jury of this years’ Procura+ Award comprised of Marzena Rogalska, Director, European Commission DG Grow, Erika Bozzay, Senior Policy Advisor, OECD, Johanna Enberg, Strategist Innovation Procurement, Swedish Competence Centre for Innovation Procurement, and Mark Hidson, Global Director ICLEI's Sustainable Procurement Centre.

The Procura+ Awards are partly funded by the Procure2Innovate project, improving institutional support for public procurers of information and communication technologies (ICT) and other sectors that implement innovation procurement.