The NAO report identified the need for accurate analysis of costs and benefits to both inform decisions and provide potential suppliers enough information to price bids accurately.42 The GCF told us that it is fair to say that there is a gap in data about direct awards from frameworks, which will be plugged by the transparency regulations under the new Procurement Act; that will allow government to see where those are and to close them down. The GCF told us it did not see any evidence of favouritism in contract awards.43 The GCF said that it is trying to find the “sweet spot” between having too many bidders for something, in which case all but one of them will have wasted bid costs, eventually inflating the cost to the public purse; and too few, which it said was also the wrong answer.44