A method for wireless communication, the method being performed by a user equipment, UE, and comprising: receiving, from a source base station, a conditional handover configuration indicating a target cell for handover of the UE upon satisfaction of a condition, wherein the conditional handover configuration further indicates: a set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, and a beam quality threshold for a random access procedure on the target cell upon satisfaction of the condition; initiating a handover procedure to the target cell based at least in part on satisfaction of the condition indicated by the conditional handover configuration; determining, from a plurality of beam measurements of the target cell, a selected beam for the random access procedure on the target cell based at least in part on the beam quality threshold, wherein determining the selected beam for the random access procedure comprises: comparing each of the plurality of beam measurements of the target cell with the beam quality threshold; identifying one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold; and selecting, as the selected beam, a highest quality beam of the identified one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold and that is also among the set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, transmitting, based at least in part on the selected beam of the target cell, a random access request to the target cell to initiate the random access procedure on the target cell for the handover of the UE, wherein the random access request is transmitted as part of a contention free random access procedure. receiving, from a source base station, a conditional handover configuration indicating a target cell for handover of the UE upon satisfaction of a condition, wherein the conditional handover configuration further indicates: a set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, and a beam quality threshold for a random access procedure on the target cell upon satisfaction of the condition; a set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, and a beam quality threshold for a random access procedure on the target cell upon satisfaction of the condition; initiating a handover procedure to the target cell based at least in part on satisfaction of the condition indicated by the conditional handover configuration; determining, from a plurality of beam measurements of the target cell, a selected beam for the random access procedure on the target cell based at least in part on the beam quality threshold, wherein determining the selected beam for the random access procedure comprises: comparing each of the plurality of beam measurements of the target cell with the beam quality threshold; identifying one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold; and selecting, as the selected beam, a highest quality beam of the identified one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold and that is also among the set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, comparing each of the plurality of beam measurements of the target cell with the beam quality threshold; identifying one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold; and selecting, as the selected beam, a highest quality beam of the identified one or more beams that satisfy the beam quality threshold and that is also among the set of beams of the target cell configured with contention free random access resources, transmitting, based at least in part on the selected beam of the target cell, a random access request to the target cell to initiate the random access procedure on the target cell for the handover of the UE, wherein the random access request is transmitted as part of a contention free random access procedure.