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

  • wide range of service lines across 10 lots

Customer engagement

Our second round of customer engagement sessions took place in February and March 2026. The RM6399 customer engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available to review.

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

We are holding a supplier session about demystifying key policy areas on Wednesday 20 May at 13:30pm, register to attend.

This session will provide a high-level overview of financial viability risk assessments (FVRA), prompt payments and carbon reduction plans (CRPs) as they relate to the upcoming agreement.

Our second round of supplier engagement sessions took place place in February and March 2026. The RM6399 supplier engagement slides and RM6399 question and answer from the sessions are available to review.

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

To learn more about the sessions read our:

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