HomeNewsNominees selected for Procurement of Innovation Award 2015
Jan Telgen Public Procurement specialist
Public Procurement of Innovation Award
Friesland

Nominees selected for Procurement of Innovation Award 2015

The Procurement of Innovation Platform consortium announced the nominations for the 2015 edition of the Public Procurement of Innovation Award. The prestigious award recognises the very best innovation procurement in Europe.

Now in its second year, the accolade highlights successful public procurement practices that have been used to purchase innovative, effective and efficient products, services or works.

The nominees come from across Europe, with Austrian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Spanish, and Italian contracting authorities represented.

The nominees are:

  • Federal Procurement Agency Austria
  • CAK healthcare and elderly care agency, The Netherlands
  • Stockholm County Council, Sweden
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province, Poland
  • Galician Public Health Service, Spain
  • Consip, Italian Central Purchasing Body
  • Rijkswaterstaat, The Netherlands
  • Municipality Achtkarspelen, together with Municipality Tytsjerksteradiel by University of Twente, The Netherlands

The judging panel comprises Wouter Stolwijk, Director of PIANOo, Dutch Public Procurement Expertise Centre; Mark Nicklas, Deputy Head of Unit: Innovation Policy for Growth, DG GROW, European Commission; Aren Mijs, Direct General Director, IMS Medical, Supplier (and winner of the 2014 PPI Award); and Mark Hidson, Deputy Regional Director of ICLEI and Global Director of ICLEI’s Sustainable Procurement Capacity Centre.

In September the jury will announce the finalists. The winner will be revealed at an award ceremony, to be held in November of this year. The winning entry will receive a trophy for innovation procurement excellence, together with the title “European Innovation Procurement of the Year”. A case study will also be published on the Procurement of Innovation Platform.

In 2014 Dutch hospital Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam overcame competition from five runners-up to be awarded the first ever PPI Award. The hospital impressed the jury with its innovative robotic bed washing facility, which used high precision cleaning robots to disinfect hospital beds in a conveyor belt format.

The Award is presented as part of the Procurement of Innovation Platform, an online hub that helps public authorities, procurers, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders harness the power of innovation procurement. The platform is coordinated by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and has been developed with support from the European Commission, and in partnership with PIANOo - The Dutch Public Procurement Expertise Centre; The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC); and the Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT).

drs. J.G.M. van den Elshout (Janneke)
Press relations (available Mon-Fri)