Researcher Tenders
See open user research tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.
User research reaches the market two ways: as a standalone commission for research, usability testing or participant recruitment, and as a named workstream inside a larger digital delivery contract. Stotles tracks 4,691 notices on this topic, 1,959 of them awarded and 76 sitting at pre-tender.
Departments, councils, NHS bodies and public broadcasters all buy it, usually to meet the GDS service standard. Volume is thin: expect a couple of notices a week, so the awarded records are where the pattern shows.
4,672 results
- Awarded contract
DWP User Researcher Accessibility Technologies
- Closed tenderPublished 20 April 2023
Government Office for Technology Transfer: Discovery Phase for Collaboration Digital Solution
- Closed tenderPublished 20 April 2023
Website and Content Management System
- Closed tenderPublished 20 April 2023
Website and Content Management System
- Awarded contract
OutSystems Services - Dynamic Purchasing System
- Expired contract
CDEI Model for Responsible Innovation
- Closed tenderPublished 20 April 2023
EHIE 01 - Service Outcome Competition for Joint Work and Health Directorate – Digital Outcome Specialists (Financial Incentives and Market Navigation)
- Expired contract
Project_25739 - USS User Researcher
- Closed tenderPublished 17 April 2023
RM1043.8 Provision of delivery team roles for an Alpha phase exploring and prototyping a digital service for taxi licence holders to manage their licenses.
- Awarded contract
DWP USS User Researcher
- Expired contract
Contract for the Provision of Virtual Wards User Insights and Research Consultancy Services
- Closed tenderPublished 14 April 2023
RM1043.8-1-NHS ENGLAND - C124067 - AAC Tableau dashboard operational layer user requirements and metric development
- Awarded contract
Strategic Information Technology Delivery Partner
- Awarded contract
Delivery Manager - DWP Working Age Transformation and Change
- Awarded contract
Provision of Digital Marketing Services to the University of Birmingham
- Expired contract
DWP SRA Centralised Participant Recruitment Contract
- Closed tenderPublished 5 April 2023
DDaT23179 - Simpler & Better Funding (SBF): Delivering The Funding Service (TFS) through Public Beta and in to Live.
- Awarded contract
Electronic Monitoring - Digital Delivery Partner
- Awarded contract
User research and content design expertise to enhance the CDEI's Model for Responsible Innovation.
- Awarded contract
Building a research, innovation and improvement skills development approach for social care
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about user research, usability testing, design research, user insight, user experience research, ux research, research participant recruitment in the UK public sector.
How do I find user research contracts in the UK public sector?
Two routes. Watch the portals for live notices, or get in earlier by following the buyers who keep commissioning this work. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one feed, so a research brief published on a Welsh or Scottish portal sits next to a Find a Tender notice. Platform-wide, 0 notices were added in the last seven days and 2,135 are open across every topic.
What sort of user research work do public sector buyers tender for?
Four recognisable shapes in the recent sample: participant recruitment agencies, usability testing on a service being rebuilt, research and design people supplied into a multidisciplinary team, and licences for a user research platform. Recruitment is the most self-contained of them, and the one most often let as a contract of its own.
What CPV codes are used for user research tenders?
There is no dedicated code, which is why this page filters on keywords rather than classifications. The three that come up most alongside the filter are 73110000 (Research services) with 125 matching notices, 79315000 (Social research services) with 43, and 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support) with 257. That last one is the tell: plenty of this work is procured as digital delivery rather than as research.
How many user research tenders are open right now?
Six, against 4,691 notices on record and 1,959 already awarded. That is the honest shape of the topic: a small live pipeline and a long award history. Read the awarded notices anyway. They carry the buyer, the incumbent and the contract dates you would need to time a bid for the retender. Platform-wide, 0 award notices were published in the last seven days.
Is user research bought through frameworks?
Often. The recent sample includes call-offs under the Crown Commercial Service RM6126 Research & Insights agreement and briefs run through the Digital Outcomes route, alongside notices published straight to a portal. Stotles' 2026 Supplier Benchmark Report found 44% of suppliers treat frameworks as their main route to market, so check which agreements a buyer already holds before chasing an open notice.
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