"preliminary framework" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to an initial set of ideas or plans that are developed before a more detailed and formal plan is developed. For example: The team created a preliminary framework to guide their project, which they then used to develop a more detailed plan.
A preliminary framework for DNA barcoding, incorporating the multispecies coalescent.
In March, President Obama and the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, agreed on a preliminary framework for compromise.
Nevertheless, psychoanalytic theory provides at least a preliminary framework for much of personality research involving motives and development.
Although a preliminary framework, the report offers a promising account of impact and value achieved by ten companies which have made steps toward product optimisation.
We offer a preliminary framework for examining the contextual determinants of variable pay plan design.
Since a preliminary framework accord was announced in Lausanne earlier this month, different interpretations have emerged on what exactly had been agreed, particularly when it came to the timing of sanctions relief.
We propose a preliminary framework to identify and structure the different requirements ETO and MTO products pose for globally distributed engineering processes.
General recommendations on sampling strategies and toxicity testing, and a preliminary framework for incorporating species-specific life history traits into future assessments are also provided.
In a preliminary framework of new tectonics, seven classic and four digital factors form a whole and interact with each other.
We present and develop a preliminary framework for describing the relationship between the mathematical and linguistic complexity of instructional tasks used in secondary mathematics.
We propose a preliminary framework to assess the vulnerability of food systems to future shocks based on landscape ecology's 'Panarchy Framework'.
