Your client still wants you. They no longer want your PSC.
Much of the UK nuclear sector has run on contractors working through personal service companies, and for years that offered independence, mobility and direct client relationships. Over the last decade the advantages have worn away: heavier administration, tighter client policies, more of the downside risk sitting with the individual, and IR35 and off-payroll reform as the final blow for many. When a client will no longer engage a PSC the usual options are to join the client and give up independence, or to work through an umbrella and accept employee taxation without the package, continuity or support of a real employer.
Bring Your Own Client is the alternative. The arrangement is settled in a three-way conversation between consultant, client and NCL before anything changes hands. NCL agrees scope and commercial terms with the client and stands behind the engagement, its governance and its quality. The consultant joins NCL as an employed consultant, keeps the relationship and the day-to-day role, and the work continues with minimal disruption and a cleaner compliance position. Unlike an umbrella, NCL then helps the consultant build a portfolio beyond the original client, with access to the wider pipeline, a senior peer group and the ability to move across programmes as demand changes. Employment terms are structured to suit the individual.
Keep the clientThe relationship and the role you have built stay with you, on a consultancy contract the client is comfortable withA real employerSalary, paid leave, sick pay, pension contributions and statutory family leave, with life assurance, private medical, income protection and salary-sacrifice schemes availableContinuous serviceThe clock does not reset when the assignment or client changes, and there is far less administration than running a PSCDevelopment and standingTraining, CPD, professional subscriptions, chartership, security clearances and conferencesA portfolio, on your termsStay focused on the specialist work you do best, or broaden into new programmes and clients over timeFor the clientTrusted specialists retained without PSC exposure, continuity of delivery and knowledge, and a credible long-term proposition for the people the programme depends on
Who this suitsConsultants caught by IR35 with the client still asking for themAn established client relationship being disrupted by contracting policy rather than performance, and a consultant who wants to keep consulting rather than join the clientu2019s headcount or an umbrella.
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Tell us about the client relationship and where the contract stands. The conversation with the client comes next, and nothing changes hands until all three parties agree.