1. Prime Minister’s Office (www.kormany.hu/en)

• drafts legislation related to public procurement
• provides support and guidance to contracting authorities
• acts as an internal oversight body through performing controls of public procurement procedures in terms of compliance with regulations

2. Public Procurement Authority (www.kozbeszerzes.hu/english) is the primary executive agency

• monitors the compliance with the law
• develops opinions on draft legislation
• collects and publishes information via annual reports, the Public Procurement Bulletin and the central register of award procedures
• provides support to contracting authorities in terms of implementation-related questions
• issues non-binding guidance documents
• organizes training and seminars for practitioners

Directorate General for Public Procurement and Supply (KEF) (www.kozbeszerzes.gov.hu/1): central purchasing body for central government agencies. The use of the KEF is obligatory, especially in the case of some product categories, such as software and IT services, vehicles and office products.

At the local level, contracting authorities have the right and they are obliged to implement their own public procurement processes, however, it is allowed by law to use the central purchasing body in their territories.

State Audit Office (SAO) (www.asz.hu/en): performs external overviews of public procurement procedures. Its recommendations are mandatory for contracts in case of serious irregularities.

Claims can be submitted to the contracting authorities, but if it is not solved in a way that is acceptable for both parties, it can be forwarded to the Public Procurement Arbitration Board (KDB), which has the authority to impose fines and sanctions and it can also exclude tenderers from participating in future procurement. Appeals against the decision of the KDB can be sent to the regional courts, and the decisions of the regional courts are subject to review by the Curia (Supreme Court of Hungary) (www.kuria-birosag.hu/en).

The Klebelsberg Centre (https://kk.gov.hu/) exercises the authority above schools through the education districts. If a school would like to purchase a new ICT tool or solution, the following procedure has to be implemented:

1. the teachers together with the principal determine their ICT needs

2. the principal sends the need to the leader of the school district

3. the leader of the education district collects the needs of all the schools that it is responsible for and send it to the Klebelsberg Centre

4. in Klebelsberg Centre there are experts who decide which tools or solutions should be purchased and when.

Municipal school's districts can decide on low-value procurements. Schools do not exercise a decision making a right.

The most important decisive factors in educational technology purchases:

• price
• compatibility with already used systems or software.

This is a semi-centralized and very long process, moreover, the procurement has to follow the regulations regarding ICT solutions in the respective Hungarian law.