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

Customer engagement sessions took place in October. The RM6399 customer engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available.

A second round of engagement is planned for February or March 2026. Details will be shared at a later date.

Supplier engagement

Supplier engagement sessions took place in October. The RM6399 supplier engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available.

A second round of engagement is planned for February or March 2026. Details will be shared at a later date.

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