The GCF commented that frameworks are growing and highlighted that there is a distinction between good and bad frameworks as well as too many frameworks. The GCF told us that on one count, procurement organisations together offer around 8,000 construction frameworks, many of which are single-supplier frameworks. The GCF further told us that a couple of years ago, it commissioned a piece of work by the King’s Fund—an independent charity focused on health and care—that helped define what a good framework looks like.39