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Actively managed frameworks

All our frameworks are actively performance-managed to provide you with assurance on the compliance, KPI delivery, and delivery of social impact and economic value on your projects.

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Optimising partner performance

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Getting started

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Monthly

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Quarterly

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Yearly

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Before expiry

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Expiry

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Procurement

Getting started

Our frameworks are optimised so that you can start your project quickly and easily.

All framework documentation is ready for you to access, and includes

  • Your mobilisation plan

  • Your guidance notes

  • Your system set up

  • Your framework templates

Each month, we will:

  • Review and analyse your framework activity to provide insights on your delivery partner’s performance, and holistically report on framework performance at a delivery partner, region, sector, client, and project level
  • Actively manage delivery partner performance on our frameworks, including risk management, at monthly governance meetings that cover a standardised agenda, and address key actions
  • Monthly reporting

  • Monthly performance management

Each quarter, we will:

  • Review and analyse our delivery partners’ performance at a senior level to ensure strategic and operational priorities are consistently aligned
  • Hold quarterly performance meetings and produce quarterly achievement reports
  • Review and manage the risk register
  • Review and manage the continuous improvement of our frameworks
  • Report to our Frameworks Board of Directors on framework performance
  • Quarterly performance meetings

  • Quarterly achievement reports

  • Actively managed risk register

  • Upward reporting to Board of Directors

Each year, we will:

  • Conduct an annual review of each delivery partner on our frameworks, ensuring that all legal requirements are both confirmed and evidenced
  • Produce an annual review statement comprising: health and safety reports, value for money evidence, audited accounts, insurance policies, warranties/undertakings, and any other relevant certification to demonstrate compliance
  • Annual review statement

  • Review of legal requirements

  • Value for money evidencing

  • Health and safety reports

Before the point of framework expiry, we will:

Undertake a detailed governance process, ensuring that all clients and delivery partners are fully compliant with the framework.

This includes

  • Ensuring all contracts are signed and stored securely

  • Ensuring delivery partners have met all of their obligations to you

  • You are informed about the upcoming expiry of the framework, and receive guidance on how you can continue to procure your projects with us

  • An assessment of the final accounts

  • Ensuring compliance at call-off

After the point of framework expiry, we will:

Manage the demobilisation and ensure all parties are clear on their roles and responsibilities during the closure of the framework, and where appropriate, during the migration to a next generation framework.

This includes

  • Reports on performance, progress, and finances

  • A lessons learned review

During re-procurement, we will:

Conduct research and development using: the framework performance reporting, a detailed review of market conditions, delivery partner feedback, market feedback, and a detailed assessment of your requirements as a client

  • Your feedback

  • Delivery partner feedback

  • Market conditions

  • Holistic research and development