Under the direction and oversight of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance, János Bertók, OECD Deputy Director for Public Governance, and Paulo Magina, Acting Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, this report was co-ordinated and drafted by Sanda Jugo, Policy Analyst of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, with the support of Erika Bozzay, Acting Deputy Head of the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division. András Hlács and Kenza Khachani, Policy Analysts from the same division provided valuable input to the report. The quantitative analysis under Chapter 2 was provided by the Government Transparency Institute.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Hungarian Government for its commitment to this work and to all those who made this report possible. In particular, the OECD thanks Ms Diána Kretter, Deputy State Secretary for Public Procurement Supervision, Ministry of Public Administration and Spatial Development, Ms Márta Várhomoki-Molnár, Head of the Public Procurement Regulation Department, Deputy State Secretariat for Public Procurement Supervision, Ministry of Public Administration and Spatial Development and coordinator of the project, Mr Gábor Soós, senior official within the same department, Mr László Cseh, legal expert within the same division, Mr András Deli, legal expert of the Public Procurement Coordination Department and, Mr Ákos Zámbó, Head of the Public Procurement Monitoring Department, Deputy State Secretariat for Public Procurement Supervision, Ministry of Public Administration and Spatial Development.
The engagement and consultation with key stakeholders of the public procurement system in Hungary were critical for the successful completion of this report.