Construction Professional Services 2

Summary

This closed framework, let under the Procurement Act 2023, gives the UK public sector access to technical advisory services that support building and civil engineering projects of all scales and sizes.

Update

20 August 2025

The confirmed date for tender release is Monday 8 September 2025.

07 August 2025

The invitation to tender (ITT) will be issued within 2 weeks. It is the bidders’ responsibility to monitor the find a tender service for the release of the RM6356 CPS2 tender.  Draft copies of the CP2 specification and FAC-1 terms and conditions can be found on the CPS2 webpage. Suppliers are encouraged to start signing up to the central digital platform (CDP).

View a copy of the draft specification and draft terms and conditions document. These documents are a draft and are shared for information purposes only.

The market engagement period for CPS2 has ended, so we cannot respond to questions at this stage. But, if you have feedback send it to cps2@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

 

Description

This agreement will replace the existing RM6165 Construction Professional Services agreement and will give you access to technical advisory services for the full lifecycle of their projects.

Services will include, but are not limited to:

  • project management
  • cost management
  • engineering, for example civil, structural, electrical
  • architectural and design services (design of buildings, spaces and infrastructure)
  • environmental and sustainability services

We can now share a proposed lot structure which can be viewed below. Details of this, along with progress updates on the specification will be shared in upcoming market engagement events (see below).

Benefits

  • flexible routes to market, with an option to buy through either further competition or direct award
  • the agreement will ensure compliance with key government policy and playbooks, including The Construction Playbook
  • flexible framework structure to support a range of construction project types, procurement routes, tendering methods and design methodologies.
  • access to industry standard forms of contract
  • dedicated and knowledgeable category team who can provide ongoing support to you
  • access to a range of suppliers who have a proven capability and a depth of expertise within their respective framework lots

Product types (proposed)

Lot 1: General infrastructure and built environment
Lot 2: Architectural
Lot 3: Project management
Lot 4: Commercial management
Lot 5: Defence
Lot 6: Defence enhanced
Lot 7: International
Lot 8: Nuclear

Flood risk and asset management (FRAM):

Lot 9a: Technical services
Lot 9b: Environmental services
Lot 9c: Commercial and programme management services

Customer engagement

Our first round of Customer engagement was held on Thursday 11th July 2024. The slides from this meeting are available for you to view.

The second round of customer engagement took place on Thursday 9th January 2025. The slides from this event are now available here.

We will also be running further market engagement sessions in April 2025 ahead of the planned ITT release date.

You can contact the team at cps2@crowncommercial.gov.uk should you have any further queries.

Supplier engagement

The market engagement period for CPS2 has ended.

Our first round of supplier engagement was held on Tuesday 16 July 2024. You can now read the slides and read the questions and answers from the event.

Our second round of supplier engagement was held on Thursday 9 January 2025. You can now read the slides and read the questions and answers from the event.

Our final round of engagement for suppliers was held on Tuesday 13 May 2025. You can now read the slides from the morning session and read the slides from the afternoon session.
Following recent engagement sessions, you can now read the updated 30 June 2025 questions and answers log, and read the supporting annex.

Further ‘how to tender’ guidance for construction professional services 2 (CPS2) will be published soon.

Bidders are encouraged to refer to the existing market engagement question and answer log. Once the tender has been released bidders can ask questions through the eSourcing portal messaging system.

Important links

Planned procurement notice Read planned procurement notice
Contract notice in find a tender (FTS) Read contract notice 
Tender documents Not available yet 

Timeline

Activity Estimated dates
Pre-market engagement May 2024 to January 2025
Drafting of procurement documentation April 2025 to June 2025
Publication of find a tender (FTS) notice  08 September 2025
Framework Award February 2026