Part 13: General Schedule 3: Estimating the value of a contract Frameworks
Paragraph 2(1) provides that a contracting authority must estimate the value of a framework as the sum of the estimated values of all the contracts that have or may be awarded in accordance with that framework. Paragraph 2(2) states that, in the case of an open framework, as per section 49 (open frameworks), the estimated value of a framework awarded under the open framework must include the value of all of the frameworks already awarded or to be awarded under the open framework. Paragraph 2(3) provides that "framework" has the meaning given in section 45(2) (frameworks).