It is seeking specialist consultancy firms across a range of disciplines to bid for a place on a four-year framework that will be offered for use to public sector organisations across England and Wales. Clients will be able to procure consultants through the framework on either a direct award or a mini competition basis.
The Procure Partnerships professional services framework will run alongside its already established contractor framework.
 It is divided into both disciplines and regions. The disciplines are:
- Architectural Design
- Landscape Architectural Design
- Project Management
- Structural Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Quantity Surveying
- MEP Design
- Building Surveying
- Principle Designer
- Fire Engineering
- Sustainability and Environmental.
The framework will be divided across the below 11 regional lots;

- Northeast
- Northwest
- Yorkshire
- East midlands
- West midlands
- East of England
- London
- Southeast
- Southwest
- North Wales
- South Wales.
Tender documentation for this framework will be released on Tuesday 26th May and can be accessed via www.procurepartnerships.co.uk/tender-documents
Procure Partnerships framework director Robbie Blackhurst said: “This framework has been two years in the making with the Procure Partnerships team conducting a detailed analysis of other professional services frameworks available to public sector bodies. This has enabled us to build not only a comprehensive framework but also the most competitive framework on the market for public sector bodies to access.â€
He said: “The framework is divided into sub-regional lots supporting the appointment of both local and national practices. The architectural and project management lots will have the option to build full multi-disciplinary teams, but unlike other frameworks they must build that team from within the framework and cannot select practices who are not on our professional services framework.â€
“We are excited to get this framework up and running providing a ‘one stop shop’ for public sector clients to procure consultants through us on a direct award or mini competition basis, complementing our already successful contractor framework.â€
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