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 contractPublished 15 July 2022
Apprenticeship Service - User Centred Design projects
£4,400,000
- Awarded contractPublished 15 July 2022
PROC 406-2022, CMA Funerals Order and SAU Public Authority Webform Development Programme
£197,300
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2022
704361450 - Army Website Renewal (Project Lamarr)
£675,000
- Expired contractPublished 14 July 2022
Prj_4639 - User Research tool (unmoderated/usability testing)
£132,526
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2022
To design and build a new Haringey Council website based on LocalGov Drupal
£245,000
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2022
Acas27237 - Assisted Notification Private Beta Extension/Public Beta
£500,625
- Closed tenderPublished 12 July 2022
Enriching judgments and tribunal decisions, entities and hyperlinks for Linked Data, integration
£82,500
- Awarded contractPublished 11 July 2022
Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) website discovery
£59,238
- Closed tenderPublished 8 July 2022
Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) Live
£1,200,000
- Expired contractPublished 8 July 2022
DWP Digital Mobility Mobile Apps User Researcher
£113,664
- Closed tenderPublished 6 July 2022
CPD4124083 DLUHC Digital Planning Reform Programme Delivery Partner
£2,781,650
- Awarded contractPublished 5 July 2022
Data & Trading Environment Bench
£4,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 5 July 2022
RBGKEW1038 Development & Support of RBG Kew's Digital estate
£520,000
- Closed tenderPublished 5 July 2022
USEIT TN CR - Community Research in Ward End
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 4 July 2022
DEXP2 London Borough of Newham Digital Experience Phase 2 Discovery & Business Case
£85,000
- Awarded contractPublished 4 July 2022
DLUHC CPD4122185 UCD and digital capability for urgent policy and DDaT short-term requirements
£8,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 4 July 2022
Occupational Maps - Development and Live
£1,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 1 July 2022
Dynamics 365 Digital & Customer Platform Implementation
£875,000
- Closed tenderPublished 1 July 2022
Design Skillnet invites tenders for the provision of UX and UI programmes at Cert or Diploma Level for Autumn 2022 for professional designers and creatives.
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 1 July 2022
CCZN22A14 – Spend data service discovery
£150,000
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 2,131 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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