2026 - Ninth International Project Management Team Excellence (IPMTEA)
Award Competition
The IPMTEA competitions held every year by CEPM in association with i2P2M since 2018 have become a much awaited annual event. Individual team members will also gain 4 years of experience in 2 days – a great Return On the Time Invested.
The 9th International Project Management Team Excellence Award (IPMTEA) competition is being held in physical mode for teams from India on 12-13 November, 2026 at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi and virtually on 11-12 Nov, 2026 for teams from outside India. Competition results will be announced on 13 November from 4.30 to 5.30 pm (GMT + 5.30 hrs).
The competition is 100% objective being based on the actual performance of each team in two real time computer simulations from Prendo, UK on Managing Stakeholders and Project Leadership that require numerous complex decisions to be made by the team. Each team’s performance is assessed by Prendo, UK. Team scoring highest marks across the two simulations is declared the Winning team.
IPMTEA 2025 Award competition
The IPMTEA 2025 competition held in New Delhi on 14-15 November, 2025 had 23 teams with 89 participants from 18 organisations covering public / private sector and government
IPMTEA 2024 Award Competition
We are grateful to NTPC for sponsoring the Winning Trophy and to IOC for sponsoring the Runner-UP Trophy for first six years of the IPMTEA Award competition
International Project Management Team Excellence (IPMTEA)
Award Competition 2023 – 2018
In 2021 IOCL Pipeline team came 1st and won the coveted NTPC sponsored Winning trophy with a team cash award of Rs. 1 lakh. DVC team was the 1st Runner-up and got the IOCL sponsored trophy with a cash award of Rs. 25,000/-. NTPC (Hydro-HQ) team was the 2nd Runner-up and it won the CEPM trophy with a team cash award of Rs. 25,000/.
In 2018 CEPM had successfully launched the world’s first 100% objectively assessed Project Management Team Excellence Award (PMTEA) competition in a physical setting. This competition is based entirely on each team’s performance in two well known real time computer based simulations from the leading Prendo Simulations of UK.
In 2020 due to covid restrictions PMTEA was changed from a physical competition to a virtual competition with teams from across the world.
19 teams participated in the competition from NITI Aayog and leading organisations like Siemens Advanta, Siemens India, NTPC, Indian Oil, Western Coalfield, HMEL, Mahanadi Coalfield etc.
Some participants of the 2020 IPMTEA virtual competition
The National Project Management Team Excellence Award (PMTEA) award was launched in 2018 and very successfully held on 5-7 July 2018. There were 75 participants in 17 teams from 11 leading companies such as Siemens, Tata Motors, NTPC, IOC, DMICDC, BEML, GAIL, Bharat Dynamics, IGL, NBCC and HFCL.
This competition has 100% objective way of judging the team’s skills in managing two complex real time computer simulations. Team members need to take hundreds of decisions and can see the cause and effect relationship of each decision made by them.
Prendo simulations are used globally by leading companies and business schools
