The goal of this early stage research is to is to understand how municipalities through public procurement can influence the scale-up of remanufacturing of spare parts in the automotive industry. We present an early assessment of the potential of remanufacturing to cover the spare parts demands of municipalities. The applied methods included interviews as well as a literature review on green public procurement and on remanufacturing in the automotive sector. The results show that current management of car fleets in the analysed Swedish municipalities is not leading to demand for remanufactured spare parts. We suggest that if the public sector wants to spur this aspect of circular economy, car fleets need to be managed differently and holistic assessments like lifecycle costing and lifecycle analysis should be part of the public procurement process.