Evaluation methodology carries a higher weight than assumed. Consequently, decision support may improve individual procurement procedures as lack of methodological knowledge or misunderstanding of mechanisms involved could affect performance in a negative way.
The law making process needs to consider these issues more closely. It is not a straightforward question what to include or not to touch on in the law and into what details law should go when it comes to methods.
The Hungarian examples and cases are used here not to present particular problems of that country, but to draw out key themes about the nature of the PP legal environment as a decision making context. Most of the statements and conclusions are true for EU directives and do not seem to be specific to Hungary6. To go beyond Hungary the findings are compared and related to European and even international trends and situations.