Main claims are that – at least for EU PP rules – the law creates a normative decision making environment. For open and restricted procedures this leads to meta decision making where procurement experts need to create the rules how the winner is selected without direct influence by the decision maker, instead of collecting or creating options and then choosing in an iterative manner. This has an effect on PP selection procedures and restricts the chances and ways of involving (higher-level) goals beyond regulatory ones. This is further reinforced by the law, or rather, its interpretation, as it may block policy goals to be even considered - yet to be achieved.