PERFECT CIRCLE CONSULTANCY LTD

What PERFECT CIRCLE CONSULTANCY LTD does

Perfect Circle Consultancy Ltd is a privately held joint venture, established in 2016 and headquartered in Leicester, United Kingdom, that delivers multi-disciplinary consultancy, advisory, and technical services for built environment, infrastructure, and utilities projects. The company operates exclusively through the SCAPE Consultancy framework procurement mechanism, providing OJEU-compliant direct award contracting for UK public sector clients. Its core services span project management, quantity surveying, architecture, engineering design, NEC supervision, health and safety consultancy, sustainability advisory, and cost management. The company's core architecture is a prime contracting collaboration model: rather than employing its own substantial workforce, Perfect Circle accesses 35,000+ professionals across a network of 500+ supply chain partners, including founding principal partners Pick Everard and Gleeds, alongside Tetra Tech, Tony Gee, Stace, Jacobs, RLB, AECOM, AtkinsRéalis, and Arcadis. As a legal entity, Perfect Circle JV Ltd (Company Number 10219126) functions as the contracting party and prime coordinator, with project delivery executed by partner firms.

The business model is professional services revenue generated through SCAPE framework commissions. Perfect Circle is not a technology product company; it is a procurement-compliant intermediary and project coordinator that captures management fees or coordinates pass-through revenue on framework-awarded commissions. Public sector clients — local authorities, NHS trusts, government agencies, blue-light services, universities, and utility sector organisations — directly award commissions through SCAPE, which then flow to Perfect Circle. The company has delivered 3,000+ commissions across 440+ clients and secured headline framework appointments including the £1.25bn Utilities Consultancy Frameworks in 2024 (split £750m for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and £500m for Scotland). Notable project commissions include the £300m Cardiff Innovation Campus, £160m Northumberland Line rail redevelopment, £100m Bedford schools programme, and £12m Royal Military Academy Sandhurst facility. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; pricing is project-based and scoped per commission with no standardised rate cards. The go-to-market is entirely sales-led via SCAPE framework appointments, with regional leads providing local coverage across the UK and no parallel distribution channel.

Name

PERFECT CIRCLE CONSULTANCY LTD

Legal name

Perfect Circle JV Ltd

Website

https://perfectcircle.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Perfect Circle is a UK-headquartered consultancy joint venture providing advisory, professional, and technical services for built environment, infrastructure, and utilities projects to public sector clients, operating exclusively through SCAPE Consultancy frameworks and coordinating delivery across 500+ supply chain partners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Infrastructure Consultancy Services

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial General Contracting (New Build) (IMAFAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainable/Green Building & LEED Consulting (BPAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Infrastructure consultancy services
• Built environment advisory
• Utilities consultancy frameworks
• Public sector procurement
• Construction project management

Headquarters

HQ city

Leicester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Consultancy Services: Perfect Circle generates revenue by delivering multi-disciplinary consultancy services (project management, quantity surveying, architecture, engineering, design, health & safety, sustainability consultancy) to public sector and utilities clients. Services are commissioned through SCAPE Consultancy frameworks, with commissions awarded directly to Perfect Circle or to its partner firms operating via the Perfect Circle joint venture. Revenue is project-based and recurring through ongoing framework appointments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Perfect Circle provides multi-disciplinary advisory, consultancy, professional, and technical services for infrastructure, built environment, and utilities projects across the UK public sector. As a prime contracting collaboration operating exclusively through SCAPE Consultancy frameworks, it aggregates 500+ supply chain partners and 35,000+ professionals to deliver project management, quantity surveying, architecture, engineering design, NEC supervision, health and safety, sustainability advisory, and cost management services.

Product overview

Perfect Circle is an industry-leading consultancy collaboration providing advisory, consultancy, professional and technical services across infrastructure, built and natural environments. They operate through SCAPE Consultancy frameworks, offering strategic advisory services, technical design services, and professional services including project management and quantity surveying. With access to over 35,000 professionals and 500+ supply chain partners, they deliver projects across sectors including education, healthcare, defence, transport, utilities, and public realm. Their offerings are structured around the SCAPE Consultancy procurement frameworks, which provide procurement-compliant contracting models for public and utilities sector clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000+ commissions delivered across the UK
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supporting.

• SCAPEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCAPE is the primary strategic partner and framework provider for Perfect Circle. Perfect Circle operates exclusively via SCAPE Consultancy frameworks, which provide procurement-compliant contracting models for UK public sector clients. SCAPE and Perfect Circle jointly developed the Utilities Consultancy Frameworks worth £1.25bn. SCAPE's brand is integral to Perfect Circle's go-to-market approach.
• Pick EverardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of Perfect Circle's founding principal partners. Pick Everard delivers architecture, project management, quantity surveying, NEC supervision, principal designer, health & safety, and sustainability consultancy services across projects including schools, police facilities, healthcare, and public realm. Key projects include Willow Grove Primary School, Bedford Academy, Heddlu Gwent Police facility, and Bro Ddyfi Community Hospital.
• GleedscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of Perfect Circle's founding principal partners. Gleeds provides cost management, project management, procurement, and commercial services. Key projects include the STEP fusion programme for UKAEA, Transport for London's West Ham Bus Garage and 31 Borough High Street, and Cardiff Innovation Campus.
• Tetra TechmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTetra Tech joined Perfect Circle to deliver £625m SCAPE Utilities frameworks. A global engineering and consultancy firm providing professional services across water, environment, infrastructure, and utilities sectors.
• AtkinsRéalismajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJointly appointed with Perfect Circle on the £750m SCAPE Utilities Consultancy Framework for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. AtkinsRéalis provides professional engineering and design services across the utilities and infrastructure sectors.
• ArcadismajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJointly appointed with Perfect Circle on the £500m SCAPE Scotland Utilities Consultancy Framework. Arcadis provides design, engineering, and consultancy services across infrastructure, water, and environment sectors.
• Tony Gee and PartnerssupportingTechnology or IntegrationEngineering consultancy partner specialising in civil and structural engineering, forming part of Perfect Circle's partner ecosystem.
• StacesupportingTechnology or IntegrationConstruction and property consultancy firm, part of Perfect Circle's partner network providing multidisciplinary consultancy services.
• JacobssupportingTechnology or IntegrationGlobal technical consultancy firm, part of Perfect Circle's partner ecosystem for infrastructure and built environment projects.
• RLB (Rider Levett Bucknall)supportingTechnology or IntegrationGlobal property and construction consultancy firm, part of Perfect Circle's partner network.
• AECOMsupportingTechnology or IntegrationGlobal infrastructure firm, part of Perfect Circle's partner ecosystem, including for projects such as the Lower Thames Crossing ground investigations and Walpole Bay Beach Facilities.
• Chord ConsultsupportingTechnology or IntegrationMechanical and electrical consultancy established in April 2022, based in the East Midlands. Became a supply chain partner of Perfect Circle in June 2022 and secured its first appointment within weeks. By the end of its first financial year, Perfect Circle was already Chord's third largest client providing 12% of total turnover. Delivered services on Nottingham Central Library, Nottingham's Green Heart, Leicester Market, and student residential developments.
• Hatfield InteriorssupportingTechnology or IntegrationSME supply chain partner of Perfect Circle specialising in interior furniture, fittings and equipment (FF&E). Has 12 team members. Accesses public sector projects through Perfect Circle, working with principal partners like Pick Everard. Projects include Wootton Lower School in Bedfordshire.
• FaulknerBrowns ArchitectssupportingTechnology or IntegrationArchitecture firm, part of Perfect Circle's supply chain, lead design architect for Nottingham Central Library project.
• Chord ConsultsupportingTechnology or IntegrationMechanical and electrical consultancy, supply chain partner of Perfect Circle, providing M&E services for Nottingham Central Library.
• Maber AssociatessupportingTechnology or IntegrationMulti-disciplinary consultancy providing services on the Nottinghamshire Scouts Adventure Centre project via SCAPE Venture Framework, through Pick Everard and Gleeds.
• Morgan SindallsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner on Nottingham Central Library and other Perfect Circle projects including Potteries Museum Spitfire Exhibition Hall. Works with Perfect Circle supply chain through the SCAPE framework.
• Willmott DixonsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPrincipal contractor on multiple Perfect Circle projects including Willow Grove Primary School, Wixams Academy, Heddlu Gwent Police facility, Polden Bower SEN School, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Works through SCAPE Consultancy framework.
• HLM ArchitectssupportingTechnology or IntegrationArchitecture firm, part of Perfect Circle's supply chain, delivering architectural design for Royal Military Academy Sandhurst project.
• Balfour BeattysupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerMain project partner for Waterside Bridge in Nottingham, collaborating with Pick Everard (via Perfect Circle) and Nottingham City Council.
• Hawkins\Brown ArchitectssupportingTechnology or IntegrationAward-winning architecture firm, part of Perfect Circle's supply chain, lead architect for the sbarc|spark building at Cardiff Innovation Campus.
• HOKsupportingTechnology or IntegrationGlobal architecture firm, part of Perfect Circle's supply chain, lead design architect for the Translational Research Hub at Cardiff Innovation Campus.
• LogossupportingTechnology or IntegrationListed as a partner firm in Perfect Circle's industry-leading partnership network.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mott MacDonald: Global engineering, management, and development consultancy providing project management, advisory, and technical services for infrastructure, built environment, and utilities projects — directly comparable to Perfect Circle's offering across the same UK public sector client base.
• Gleeds: Global cost and project management consultancy; a founding principal partner of Perfect Circle delivering commercial, procurement, and cost management on STEP, TfL, and Cardiff Innovation Campus projects, with comparable direct public sector advisory business outside the JV.
• Turner & Townsend: Global professional services firm specialising in cost management, project management, and advisory across infrastructure, real estate, and natural environment. Competes for the same public sector and utilities advisory commissions that Perfect Circle targets.
• Pick Everard: Founding principal partner of Perfect Circle providing architecture, quantity surveying, NEC supervision, and project management; while operating inside the JV, Pick Everard also bids directly on adjacent public sector work outside Perfect Circle.

Broad incumbents

• WSP: Global professional services consultancy with deep UK public sector and infrastructure presence, providing advisory, design, and project management comparable to Perfect Circle's full-lifecycle service offering.
• Jacobs: Global technical consultancy providing advisory, engineering, and project management across infrastructure and utilities. Also a Perfect Circle consortium partner, but competes directly on adjacent utility, defence, and infrastructure frameworks outside Perfect Circle.
• AtkinsRéalis: Global engineering and project management consultancy; jointly appointed with Perfect Circle on the £750m Utilities Framework for EWNI, and competes directly on UK infrastructure, nuclear, and utilities advisory mandates.
• Arcadis: Global design, engineering, and consultancy firm. Jointly appointed with Perfect Circle on the £500m Scotland Utilities Framework, but also competes directly on UK infrastructure and utilities mandates where it is not partnered with the JV.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure firm that is simultaneously a Perfect Circle consortium partner and a direct competitor on SCAPE framework commissions and adjacent public sector work; offers the same end-to-end advisory, design, and project management capability at much larger scale.

Others

• SCAPE Group: SCAPE is the procurement authority that owns the framework contracts through which Perfect Circle exclusively distributes its services. It is the closest ecosystem peer: not a direct competitor but the indispensable commercial counterparty that defines Perfect Circle's go-to-market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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