*3.2.3 Step 3: weight of price criterion*

Subsequently, the relative importance of the price criterion was determined by voting and was determined to be 40% of the overall decision, which is already established as a general ratio for chemical pharmaceutical products.

#### **Figure 2.**

*Graphic representation of the scoring for the procurement price difference in comparison to the lowest price product. The cutoff point determined in the workshop was an excess price of 100%. All prices higher than this cutoff point receive a score of 0%.*


#### **Table 3.**

*Results of the consensus workshop for the relative importance of the evaluation criteria and their weight in the final score for each option.*
