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A faster, more transparent route to specialist services

Matrix Milestone is Ealing Council's official delivery partner on the EPF - giving public sector organisations a Neutral Vendor route to market for services, works and goods, with outcomes and savings built in from day one.

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Who is the EPF for?

Any public sector organisation, not just Ealing, can access Matrix Milestone through the EPF. It's a compliant, OJEU-aligned route to procuring specialist professional services and consultancy spend, without running a full tender from scratch.

The Challenge

Public sector teams are still expected to deliver transformation programmes with tighter budgets, shorter timescales and closer scrutiny on value for money. Yet many organisations still lack a consistent, well-managed way to buy and manage the specialist services these projects depend on.

That tends to show up in four familiar ways:

1. Lack of control
2. Lack of transparency
3. Poor visibility
4. Limited or no cost savings

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Lack of control

No clear process for ensuring projects are outcome-focused, or clear criteria for payment.

Lack of transparency

Limited understanding of which suppliers are working on which projects, or whether they're compliant with rules like IR35.

Poor visibility

Little real-time management information, so learnings and improvements in supplier engagement get lost.

 

Limited or no cost savings

Not enough supplier competition to drive value or meet social value commitments.

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Benefits of the EPF

Accessing Matrix Milestone through the EPF gives you a faster, lower-risk route to specialist services, backed by:

  • Rate and project benchmarking, so you know you're paying a fair market price before you commit
  • Pre-approved, accredited suppliers, with expert selection advice to help you shortlist the right ones for your project
  • Straightforward brief and Statement of Requirement templates, so specifications are clear from the outset and attract better tender responses
  • Real-time reporting, giving you the management information to keep improving how you procure over time
  • Continuous IR35 compliance checking, built into every engagement end to end
  • Evaluation and moderation support, when you're running a competitive procurement and need an extra pair of expert hands
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Matrix Milestone is a managed marketplace for Statement of Work services. You only pay for what's delivered, against pre-agreed, measurable milestones, drawing on an accredited supplier community across 27 categories and 360 sub-categories, from major national providers through to SMEs and social enterprises supporting the localisation agenda.

£200m+ managed spend  | 4,000+ projects delivered  |  100+ clients  |  Savings of 10-20% per project

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Supported end-to-end, not just at the point of recruitment

Matrix Milestone supports the full lifecycle of your project, not just the sourcing stage:

  • Specification development

  • Supplier identification

  • Tender process management

  • Contract award and work order creation

  • Project review and evaluation

  • Active mitigation of scope and budget creep throughout

Plus:
Direct awards within 24 hours · Mini-competitions released within 14 days · No payment for non-delivered activity

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Delivered by market-recognised procurement technology

Matrix has been named a Major Contender in Everest Group's 2026 Vendor Management System PEAK Matrix® Assessment, recognising the vendor management capability of Matrix Prism, the platform behind Matrix Milestone's procurement and reporting tools.

Matrix Milestone is powered by our proprietary Matrix Prism platform, giving you real-time reporting, contract oversight and continuous IR35 compliance checking across every project, backed by a dedicated team of procurement category experts when you need more than the dashboard.

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Access Matrix Milestone in 4 Easy Steps:

Decide

Confirm the EPF as your route to market.

Agree

Complete the EPF call-off/access agreement.

Set Up

Your Matrix Milestone project team is established: 24 to 48 hours for a lite implementation, 4 to 6 weeks for full scale.

Go Live

Get access to the platform, your team support and the accredited supplier community.

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Ready to find out more?

Whatever the need, Matrix Milestone's supply chain covers specialist categories including HR, IT and Digital, Construction, Legal, Regeneration and Housing, Social Care, and Highways and Transport, alongside 20+ others.

Download the full EPF guide for the detail on categories of spend, supplier access and what to expect at each stage.

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