PART ONE Some early contracts had limited contract clauses and guidance but this is being addressed

This part of the report considers the expected effectiveness of the contractual clauses relating to benchmarking and market testing and the extent to which guidance has assisted project teams undertaking the process.

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The first projects to value test services had limited guidance or help, but this has recently been addressed
To date there have been various types of contract clauses but in a sample we examined, they were often vague in what was required
Some contracts do not have benchmarking/ market testing arrangements, mainly for valid reasons, but we found examples where contracts would have been suitable for these arrangements