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
- Closed tenderPublished 2 December 2021
Transforming how we assess vulnerable residents
£500,000
- Closed tenderPublished 2 December 2021
Lessons Management Tool
£125,000
- Expired contractPublished 30 November 2021
Award of Provision of 3 x User Researcher interims
£46,610
- Closed tenderPublished 30 November 2021
User Research Participants for The Planning Inspectorate in England
£90,000
- Closed tenderPublished 30 November 2021
Developing a public access service for Court Judgments with a publishing and editorial system
£95,000
- Closed tenderPublished 29 November 2021
Environment Agency Appraisal Guidance User Research
£36,546
- Expired contractPublished 29 November 2021
Environment Agency Appraisal Guidance User Research
£35,095
- Closed tenderPublished 29 November 2021
UK Export Finance web presence: campaign microsite
£32,500
- Expired contractPublished 29 November 2021
Environment Agency Appraisal Guidance User Research
£35,095
- Awarded contractPublished 29 November 2021
Senior Interaction Designer
£78,000
- Closed tenderPublished 29 November 2021
UK wide One-health AMR Surveillance System, Discovery with Environmental System Exemplar
£1,000,000
- Expired contractPublished 26 November 2021
CS21629 - User Researcher
£46,666.88
- Closed tenderPublished 25 November 2021
Enhancing Hackney’s Data Platform so that it is so good analysts want to use it
£293,000
- Closed tenderPublished 24 November 2021
UK SBS DDaT21532 UKSA – Web Improvements
£74,999
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
Planning Reform System Mapping (Discovery) Continued Work - CPD 004/122/140
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
WP2025 Delivery Partner to work with the One Login for Government Programme
£9,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
Setting Leadership Portfolio
£9,400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
Discovery for Northern Ireland products as part of EIP Digital programme
£80,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
Prototype a service pattern for Change my Tenancy on low code platforms
£55,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2021
Warm Homes Discount Reform Discovery
£180,500
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 2,119 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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