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
- Expired contractPublished 16 March 2022
NHSBSA UR Participant Recruitment Contract
£950,000
- Awarded contractPublished 16 March 2022
Schools Services Delivery Portfolio
£8,500,000
- Closed tenderPublished 15 March 2022
Micromobility Data Discovery
£70,000
- Awarded contractPublished 15 March 2022
Design, implement and support Hart District Council's website using the LocalGov Drupal platform
£93,200
- Expired contractPublished 15 March 2022
Award of Provision of User Research, What Data is important to me
£47,300
- Expired contractPublished 14 March 2022
User Research Contract 2021
£450,000
- Awarded contractPublished 14 March 2022
Accessibility design and testing
£9,960
- Awarded contractPublished 14 March 2022
Provision of Kerbside Management Discovery
£119,999
- Expired contractPublished 14 March 2022
Web Project - Panlogic
£94,130
- Closed tenderPublished 11 March 2022
RBGKEW1038 Development & Support of RBG Kew's Digital estate
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 11 March 2022
Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) website discovery
£69,000
- Closed tenderPublished 11 March 2022
VOA Intranet User Research
Value not stated
- Awarded contractPublished 9 March 2022
Digital Partner - Website Design and Development
£600,000
- Expired contractPublished 9 March 2022
GB-London: CON-22-011 User Experience Designer
£161,784
- Expired contractPublished 9 March 2022
Invitation to Tender: CDPS Digital Skills and Capability
£73,525
- Closed tenderPublished 9 March 2022
Design for a Interoperability Standards Support Service
£160,000
- Closed tenderPublished 9 March 2022
DDaT22082 UKSA National SST Programme Public Beta Phase
£373,750
- Awarded contractPublished 8 March 2022
CO0164 SEND Local Offer on LocalGov Drupal
£82,390
- Expired contractPublished 8 March 2022
CCIS21A51 - GPP User Research and Service Assessment Support
£91,800
- Awarded contractPublished 8 March 2022
C21529 Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Central Multi-disciplinary Resource Service
£4,999,999
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 2,126 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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