The theoretical dispositions exclude the criticality of turbulent and transitional contexts in constructing sensemaking of change process. The paper demonstrates how middle managers create meaning to ambiguous and ambivalent cues but also provides legitimacy for acting as sensemakers of change, strategically. A framework is developed that demonstrates two interlinked processes to be critical to the accomplishment of middle managers’ strategizing sensemaking in the public sector. Strategizing sensemaking is understood closely with the need for engagement in tactical action of change where sensemaking is not momentary or episodic, but rather it is a process that continuously covers specific moments and episodic events. Also, developing horizontal and vertical dialogues has been considered a structural boundary for strategizing sensemaking in the public sector. It is well elaborated that understanding sensemaking as a discursive process alleviates the burden of structural boundary for middle managers, as unplanned events, cues, frames and accounts are deliberated a trigger of shared meanings and understandings of practices encountered. This is a pioneering research on middle managers’ strategizing sensemaking in the public sector in a transition context and therefore theoretical and practical implications are thoroughly elaborated.