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 14 December 2021
CP2049-21 Digital & Technology Strategic Partner
£1,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 14 December 2021
Hospital Facilities Fault Reporting App - Combined Discovery and Alpha
£68,250
- Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2021
Information Architect to model site architecture for The National Archives website
GBP/DAY 600
- Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2021
UKEF Export Insurance Policy (EXIP) Modernisation Discovery
£125,000
- Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2021
UKEF User-centred design, business analyst and product support
£465,000
- Expired contractPublished 10 December 2021
Participant recruitment for Citizen Information
£78,772
- Awarded contractPublished 9 December 2021
C21162 Home Office Chief Technology Officer Reference Architecture
£3,000,000
- Expired contractPublished 8 December 2021
Award of Interim IT Staff Services Framework - 5 x Senior User Researcher
£67,952
- Closed tenderPublished 8 December 2021
User Research
£30,000
- Closed tenderPublished 7 December 2021
NHS England User Research for the Integrated Single Finance Environment (ISFE)
£67,500
- Closed tenderPublished 7 December 2021
DWP Digital - Senior User Researcher. Technology Services User Experience Team
GBP/DAY 550
- Closed tenderPublished 7 December 2021
Prototype: Integrated planning for net zero
£80,000
- Closed tenderPublished 7 December 2021
DWP Digital - Senior Service Designer - User Experience Team
GBP/DAY 550
- Closed tenderPublished 6 December 2021
NHSX Digital Clinical Safety Discovery (updated 06/12/2021) copy
£400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 6 December 2021
Ofsted Intranet Refresh
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 6 December 2021
NHSX Digital Clinical Safety Discovery (updated 06/12/2021)
£400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 3 December 2021
Provision of Grants as a Service discovery and alpha phases
£1,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 3 December 2021
Development, Maintenance and Support of the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing Application
£4,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 3 December 2021
Provision of digital and user-research services for Sport Wales Physical Literacy Platform
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 2 December 2021
IPA Benchmarking Data Service (Beta)
£400,000
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 2,121 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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