The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is continuing to progress its market engagement activity until 19th September, ahead of tendering its £96 billion (inc VAT) construction framework in January 2026.
The CCS is seeking to procure and award a new commercial framework agreement which will provide public sector buyers with routes to market to procure construction works with associated goods and services in relation to built assets and infrastructure.
The new framework is intended to replace and combine a number of existing CCS frameworks RM6088
(Construction Works and Associated Services), RM6267 (Construction Works and Associated Services 2 / ProCure 23) which expire in October 2026. The new framework agreement will also incorporate the current CCS offering RM6184 (Offsite Construction Solutions) with a slight overlap up until the current RM6184 expires in January 2027.
The scope of the framework will comprise supplier design, manufacture, supply and installation of construction works and services including civil engineering and infrastructure, hire and purchase of 2D and 3D offsite construction solutions.
The new agreement will also seek to incorporate the fifth generation of the NHS England ProCure Framework (P24), replacing the existing ProCure 23 framework upon expiry and continuing to provide a range of construction-based solutions for NHS England capital projects.
The framework is anticipated to service Central Government Departments and all other UK public sector bodies, including Specialist Purpose Vehicles (SPV's) acting on behalf of public bodies and all public sector requirements across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The CCS has already conducted a number of engagement events and activities which took place earlier this year. Links to presentation slides, outputs and subsequent Questions and Answers are available on the website at https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6320.
The extensive series of documents and slides available for download include:
- supplier engagement slides.
- supplier webinar questions and answers
- follow up webinar presentation
- supplier follow up webinar Q&A
- pre-webinar information (Mar 2025): summarising insights and feedback to date
- Next steps webinar slides
- Next steps Q&A (Jun 2025)
Current estimated start and end contract dates are 22 July 2026 to 28 October 2034 and market engagement deadline is 19 September 2025.
Last week the CCS held three further separate workshops as follows:
- General Construction, Thematic and Offsite Workshop
- Integrator Workshop
- Civil Engineering, Infrastructure and Thematic Workshop
Further market engagement is planned to take place in July and August – details of timelines and activities will be published on the webpage in advance and opportunities for suppliers to express interest in participating will be kept open throughout this period to ensure maximum participation.
The CCS currently expects to publish a formal tender notice in the last week of January 2026.
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