Consultancy and Professional Services

Summary

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

Description

This agreement will replace RM6309 Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4) and will provide a compliant, cost effective way for central government and the wider public sector to access a variety of consultancy advice from a range of suppliers.

Benefits

  • wide range of suppliers from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to large multinationals
  • all suppliers are cyber essentials accredited
  • standard terms and conditions
  • detailed customer guidance and templates
  • choice of pricing models including time & materials (T&M), fixed, or risk-reward
  • a tool to help you shortlist suitable suppliers
  • a dedicated and knowledgeable contract management team to support you

Customer engagement

The framework team hosted customer engagement sessions in October. The RM6399 customer engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available.

 

The second round of engagement is expected to take place in February/March 2026. Details will be published nearer the time.

Supplier engagement

The framework team hosted supplier engagement sessions in October. The RM6399 supplier engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available.

 

The second round of engagement is expected to take place in February/March 2026. Details will be published nearer the time.

Important links

Pipeline notice Read pipeline notice
Preliminary market engagement notice Available here
Planned procurement notice Not available yet 
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