Resilience and Security Frameworks
Our Frameworks
Private, pre-qualified supplier marketplaces for specific resilience and security needs. Each one gives buyers a single route to vetted capability, and gives capable suppliers a structured route to market. One is live now. The next is in development.
Further frameworks will follow where there is a clear need that existing routes to market do not meet well.
Live now
The Wargaming Framework
A managed marketplace of vetted specialists in wargaming, scenario-based exercising, red-teaming, simulation, facilitation and analysis. Public and private sector organisations commission once; RSF assembles the team from an approved supplier list and coordinates delivery.
The framework is currently private. If you want to commission an exercise or join the supplier list, the Wargaming page explains how.
In development
The Martyn's Law Framework
Martyn's Law is the name given to the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. It is named after Martyn Hett, one of the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, and it exists because of his mother Figen Murray's campaign for venues to be better prepared.
It places new legal responsibilities on the people responsible for premises and events that the public can access:
-
Standard tier (200 to 799 people expected at any one time): register with the regulator and put in place appropriate public protection procedures, such as evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication, and make sure staff know them.
-
Enhanced tier (800 or more): everything in the standard tier, plus appropriate physical and procedural measures to reduce vulnerability to an attack, documented and submitted to the regulator.
-
The Act covers a very wide range of places: shops, entertainment venues, sports grounds, hospitals, places of worship, schools and universities, local authority buildings, hotels, transport hubs and temporary events.
Why a procurement framework helps
Most organisations caught by the Act have never had to buy counter-terrorism advice, and the market for it is uneven. Alongside the established security consultancies there are many small firms and individual advisers of varying quality, and no simple way for a venue manager or a council to tell them apart. The risk is that responsible persons either overpay for reassurance or underbuy and remain non-compliant.
The Martyn's Law Framework will create a pre-qualified list of suppliers who can carry out vulnerability assessments, write and test public protection procedures, train staff, specify and install physical measures, and support enhanced-tier documentation. Suppliers will be vetted for competence, financial standing and integrity before they are listed.
Buyers will be able to commission proportionately, from a single standard-tier procedures package to a full enhanced-tier programme, through one contracting party and without running their own procurement from scratch. Public sector buyers will be able to use it within their existing procurement rules.
We are building the supplier base now so that the framework is ready before the duties take effect.