8 October 2025
Plan B Management is delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a place on the ESPO framework for Consultancy Services (664). ESPO is a public sector-owned professional buying organisation that offers a range of procurement services to help public sector bodies, schools, and academies source goods and services efficiently and compliantly. There are currently over 100 free-to-access procurement frameworks available.
Plan B Management Solutions underwent a formal tender process to provide consultancy services to the framework. We have been successful in the five lots we tendered for: Business Services, Procurement Services, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Safety and Waste & Recycling.
“We believe our inclusion on the framework will provide access to new opportunities. We hope it will help us expand the work we do with Local Authorities by providing opportunities with Councils we don’t currently work with. We also hope to support Councils with upcoming changes, including implementing the requirements of Simpler Recycling, pEPR, and local government reorganisation),” says Steve Batchelor, Director of Consultancy Services for Plan B Management Solutions.
Established in 1981, today ESPO is one of the largest in the country and is owned and managed by six-member authority councils: Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire Country Councils and Peterborough City Council.