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 are hosting customer engagement sessions, if you would like to share ideas on shaping this new agreement please sign up below using your public sector email address and a Microsoft Teams invite will be sent to you prior to the event.
Wednesday 1 October, 2pm to 4pm
Tuesday 7 October, 10am to 12pm
Supplier engagement
The Framework team are hosting supplier engagement sessions, if you would like to share ideas on shaping this new agreement please sign up below and a Microsoft Teams invite will be sent to you prior to the event.
Thursday 2 October, 2pm to 4pm
Important links
| Pipeline notice | Read pipeline notice |
| Preliminary market engagement notice | Not available yet |
| 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 | Not available yet |
| Drafting of procurement documentation | Not available yet |
| Publication of Find a Tender (FTS) notice | September 2026 |
| Framework award | August 2027 |