How to escape the groundhog day of dodgy frameworks

By Tom Lowe2022-01-24T07:00:00

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Construction has long been plagued by a procurement process that is inefficient, fragmented and costly. All that is about to change.

You may not have seen this coming, but apparently 2022 is set to be the “year of the framework”. That’s the view at least of David Mosey, professor of law at King’s College London, who last month published a report setting out proposals to shake up how public sector frameworks operate.

He admits that his tag for the next 12 months might not be “the most exciting” branding. But his 135-page report, entitled Constructing the Gold Standard, is the latest watershed moment for an industry that has been undergoing rapid change in recent years.

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