90 live Consultancy tenders across the UK. Professional services, advisory, training and public administration.
Updated 1 October 2026
Subscribe to unlock every result and get the new ones emailed to you each morning, with what comparable contracts were awarded for.
Professional and consultancy notices cover management and organisational consultancy, financial and audit services, legal services, HR and recruitment, training and workforce development, research and evaluation, communications and marketing, programme and project management, and policy advice.
CPV codes: CPV 79400 for business and management consultancy, 79100 for legal services, 79200 for accounting and audit, 80000 for education and training services, and 73000 for research and development services.
Central government departments and arm's-length bodies are the heaviest consultancy buyers, alongside councils commissioning transformation and service reviews, NHS bodies buying programme support, and universities buying research and evaluation. Combined authorities and devolved administrations commission economic and policy research.
Right now the most active buyers publishing in this category on Daily Tenders are University of Dundee, East Sussex County Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Dundee City Council, Scottish Government and Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.
Sector-specific professional accreditation matters more than generic certification — ICAEW or ACCA for audit, SRA regulation for legal, CIPD for HR, APM or PRINCE2 for programme management. ISO 27001 is expected for anything handling sensitive data, and Cyber Essentials is common. Buyers scrutinise named-consultant CVs closely, so bid the people you will actually deploy.
Crown Commercial Service frameworks dominate central government consultancy spend — the Management Consultancy Framework and its successors. Councils use regional consortium frameworks and, for lower values, run quick quotations. Below-threshold work is often awarded from existing supplier lists with minimal advertising, which is why below-threshold Contracts Finder notices are worth watching.
Rarely on price alone. Most use a quality-price split weighted 60:40 or 70:30 toward quality, with the assessment heavily driven by named individuals, relevant case evidence and proposed methodology.
By bidding lots rather than whole frameworks, by specialising visibly in a niche the large firms treat as marginal, and by subcontracting into a prime's bid to build a public sector track record before leading one.
Published contract award notices from the last two years: who won, for how much, and the official notice. Across 1,904 awards with a published value, the typical contract was £44k, and half fell between £9k and £149k.
2,375 awards for consultancy in the last two years. Subscribers see what comparable contracts went for on every tender they open.
We'd like to use Meta cookies to measure which of our adverts bring people here. They only load if you accept. Details