Change management contracts
UK public sector · 220 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 220
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £157k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £162m
- 208 of 213 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 126
- Suppliers
- 120
69 change management contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most change management contracts took 23% of them (51 of 220).
- Contracts awarded per quarter fell 28% from the first half of the period to the second.
- The median contract, £157k, is 96% above the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
- London had the most contracts: 60, or 27% of the total.
Who buys change management
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Nuclear Restoration Services16 contracts£4.7m
- 2Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs11 contracts£2.6m
- 3Financial Conduct Authority7 contracts£19.0m
- 4Post Office Limited7 contracts£5.3m
- 5Highways England6 contracts£5.5m
- 6National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)5 contracts£2.3m
- 7Westminster City Council5 contracts£565k
- 8UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)4 contracts£3.9m
- 9Cabinet Office4 contracts£2.0m
- 10Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)3 contracts£4.6m
Top change management contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Deloitte14 contracts£6.1m
- 2Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS)12 contracts£4.2m
- 3PA Consulting10 contracts£5.8m
- 4KPMG8 contracts£12.4m
- 5Baringa7 contracts£17.4m
- 6Q5 Ltd7 contracts£1.3m
- 7Human Engine Limited6 contracts£2.1m
- 8PwC5 contracts£7.3m
- 9Korn Ferry4 contracts£277k
- 10Reed Talent Solutions4 contracts£238k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
University of Gloucestershire to Enfuse Group Ltd · Awarded 28 September 2026
Clarion Housing Group to Incito Solutions Ltd · Awarded 24 September 2026
Anchor Hanover Group to Q5 Ltd · Awarded 23 September 2026
Nuclear Restoration Services to Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) · Awarded 22 September 2026
Westminster City Council to Gartner UK Limited · Awarded 18 September 2026
Nuclear Restoration Services to Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) · Awarded 16 September 2026
Highways England to Arup · Awarded 15 September 2026
Office for Students to PA Consulting · Awarded 11 September 2026
London Legacy Development Corporation to Deecon Consulting Limited · Awarded 11 September 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to WSP · Awarded 10 September 2026
Largest
Leicestershire County Council to NEWTON CONSULTING LIMITED · Awarded 29 October 2025
Department for Work and Pensions to AECOM · Awarded 2 July 2026
Financial Conduct Authority to Baringa · Awarded 24 July 2026
Leeds City Council - PACS to KPMG · Awarded 16 March 2026
Derbyshire County Council to PwC · Awarded 30 April 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 211 · Wales 5 · Scotland 4
What is included
Consultancy that designs and drives change in how an organisation or function is structured and run, where the subject is not health and care and the change has no technology core: transformation partners and change programmes, target operating models and organisation design, workforce and employment models for new bodies, capability assessments, and end-to-end process mapping and lean redesign.
- Transformation partner for a cross-cutting programme
- Organisational change options and implementation support
- Change programme consultancy
- Target operating model design and implementation support
- Operating model for a new function or public body
- Sector-wide operating model
- Institutional capability and organisational effectiveness assessment
- HR framework and employment model design for a new body
- End-to-end process mapping
- Review of a change management process
- Decision-making process improvement
- Lean and continuous improvement
What is not included
- Health, social care and children's services transformation (see Health and social care transformation consultancy)
- Strategy development and single-service reviews (see Strategy development and service reviews)
- Governance and board arrangements (see Governance reviews and board effectiveness)
- Pay and grading structures (see Pay, reward and job evaluation)
- Project management of the programme (see Programme management)
- Finance function improvement (see Financial sustainability, recovery and finance function reviews)
- Service delivery model and insourcing options appraisals (see Feasibility study)
- Demand, capacity and flow modelling (see Demand and capacity modelling)
- Technology-led transformation (see it software (it.advice.digital transformation consultancy))
- Process automation or system implementation (see it software (it.ent.robotic process automation))
- Open-ended data science resource (see it software (it.data.analytics and data science services))
- HR advisory, casework and staff supply (see Recruitment & HR)