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 20 October 2021
Invitation to Tender: Centre for Digital Public Services Full Time Recruitment Partner.
£61,500
- Closed tenderPublished 20 October 2021
Invitation to Tender: Centre for Digital Public Services Full Time Recruitment Partner.
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 20 October 2021
HMPPS - Approved Premises
£500,000
- Awarded contractPublished 20 October 2021
CMA Public Gateway and other Digital Services
£133,600
- Closed tenderPublished 20 October 2021
RPAS Safety Reporting – Discovery, design and development
£100,000
- Closed tenderPublished 19 October 2021
WP1944 - Digital Capability for Urgent DDaT Requirements (2)
£3,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 19 October 2021
WP2021: Identity Verification App Delivery partner. Both Android and Apple.
£4,800,000
- Awarded contractPublished 19 October 2021
User Research Capability Contract
£1,750,000
- Awarded contractPublished 19 October 2021
Agile Project / Delivery Manager for digital product development and contract management
£78,000
- Awarded contractPublished 19 October 2021
DHSC Hospital Facilities Fault Reporting App – Concluding Alpha and Delivering Private & Public Beta
£258,775
- Closed tenderPublished 18 October 2021
WP1944 - Digital Capability for Urgent DDaT Requirements
£4,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 18 October 2021
Public Sector Procurement Centre of Excellence Wales - Discovery
£79,920
- Expired contractPublished 18 October 2021
WP1994 User Research Participants for GOV.UK Roadmap
£62,500
- Awarded contractPublished 18 October 2021
DHSC – Weight Management Services - Discovery Phase
£110,900
- Closed tenderPublished 14 October 2021
PS21080 Acas User and Non-user research subscription service
£40,000
- Closed tenderPublished 14 October 2021
Online Experimentation Function
£100,000
- Expired contractPublished 14 October 2021
Award of Senior User researcher
£423,104
- Expired contractPublished 13 October 2021
CMA Capital Projects
£345,000
- Awarded contractPublished 13 October 2021
RE-LISTED 701555473 Digital Service Programme Partner: Data Science
£8,333,000
- Closed tenderPublished 12 October 2021
UK SBS DDaT21455 BEIS Monitoring & Evaluation Performance Tool
£75,000
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 2,119 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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