Consultancy and Professional Services

Summary

let under the Procurement Act 2023 and covers consultancy. This includes business, strategy and policy, finance, HR, procurement, health or social care and community, infrastructure and environment. As well as restructuring and insolvency.

Description

RM6399 Consultancy and Professional Services will replace RM6309 Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4). It will provide the central government and the wider public sector with a compliant and cost-effective way to access consultancy advice from a range of suppliers.

Benefits

  • wide range of suppliers from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to large multinationals

  • cyber essentials accredited suppliers

  • standard terms and conditions

  • detailed customer guidance and templates

  • choice of pricing models, including Time and Materials (T&M), fixed, or risk-reward

  • a tool to help you shortlist suitable suppliers

  • support from a dedicated and knowledgeable contract management team

Customer engagement

Our second round of customer engagement will take place in February and March 2026. Public sector customers can register to attend one of two events on Eventbrite from midday on Friday 16 January 2026 using the links below.

An initial round of customer engagement sessions took place in October 2025. The RM6399 customer engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available.

Supplier engagement

Our second round of supplier engagements will take place in February and March 2026. Suppliers can register to attend one of the two events on Eventbrite from midday on Friday 16 January 2026 using the links below.

An initial round of supplier engagement sessions took place in October 2025.

To learn more about the sessions:

Important links

Pipeline notice Read pipeline notice
Preliminary market engagement notice Available here
Contract notice in Find a Tender (FTS) Not available yet 
Tender documents Not available yet 

Timeline

Activity Estimated dates
Pre-market engagement September 2025 to March 2026 
Drafting of procurement documentation Not available yet 
Publication of Find a Tender (FTS) notice September 2026
Framework award August 2027