Current frameworks and framework alliances illustrate different approaches to delivering successful outcomes from projects and programmes of work while exploring the potential for improved economic, social and environmental value. They include:
■ Regional and national construction and engineering projects and programmes of work for multiple Government departments and a wide range of other public sector clients, delivered through the framework alliances led by Crown Commercial Service
■ Major infrastructure programmes delivered through frameworks and alliances led by the Environment Agency, Highways England and Network Rail
■ National and regional programmes for the construction and improvement of schools, healthcare facilities and custodial facilities delivered through frameworks and framework alliances led by Department for Education, NHS P22, NHS Shared Business Services and Ministry of Justice
■ Large-scale programmes of improvement to government estates delivered through frameworks led by Department of Work and Pensions and by H.M. Revenue and Customs
■ Regional and national frameworks and framework alliances delivering construction and engineering projects and programmes of work for local authorities and other public sector clients led by:
■ Constructing West Midlands
■ LHC
■ Midlands Highway Alliance
■ North East Procurement Organisation
■ North West Construction Hub
■ Scape
■ South East and Mid-Wales Collaborative Construction Framework
■ South West Wales Regional Contractors Framework
■ Southern Construction Framework
■ YORhub
■ The Construction Playbook pathfinder sub-alliance led by Ministry of Justice, using the Crown Commercial Service framework alliance to deliver an integrated, collaborative approach to MMC, BIM, ESI and Supply Chain Collaboration on a programme of four prisons.
The review has looked at frameworks designed for national and regional programmes of work in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Review contributors include clients, framework providers and suppliers in each of the four nations. In all these locations public sector frameworks vary according to whether they are procured by:
■ One client
■ A group of connected or unconnected clients
■ A framework provider on behalf of a range of identified and unidentified clients.
Frameworks also vary according to whether they are designed to govern:
■ Committed or speculative programmes of work, services or supplies
■ Generic types of works, services or supplies
■ Works, services or supplies in a single sector or bridging multiple sectors
■ Programmes of work in one or more different regions.