The Cabinet Office has appointed an academic to lead its review of public sector frameworks.
Professor David Mosey of King’s College London has been selected to lead the examination of the existing frameworks to devise a new ‘gold standard’ against which frameworks can be measured, the government said.
Construction News, the Construction Playbook document released last year sets a vision for procurement in the public sector, and included a commitment to review frameworks and reduce the number used across the government.
Mosey, who spent 33 years working as a construction lawyer, is director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College. He has been tasked with devising the ‘gold standard’ against which proposed new frameworks should be measured, recommending standard contract terms supporting this and for suggesting training packages to enable adoption of the new gold standard.