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 3 September 2021
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) Support - STA 0255/ Jaggaer Ref: Project_4608
£46,100
- Closed tenderPublished 3 September 2021
MHCLG CPD4122071 Digital Planning Reform Delivery Partner
£450,000
- Closed tenderPublished 3 September 2021
C21542 Home Office ES Operations – ServiceNow Burst Capability
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 2 September 2021
WP2011.4: A fully documented baseline operating model for the .gov.uk domain and its subdomains
£275,000
- Closed tenderPublished 1 September 2021
Strategic Information Technology Delivery Partner
Value not stated
- Awarded contractPublished 1 September 2021
BEIS Digital User Centered Design Partner
£3,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 1 September 2021
Civilian Reserve Discovery and Alpha
£212,500
- Awarded contractPublished 1 September 2021
BEIS Digital Technical Delivery Partner
£3,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 1 September 2021
CP2049-21 Digital and Technology Strategic Partner
£1,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 1 September 2021
Help to Grow:Digital - User Centred Design Partner
£700,000
- Awarded contractPublished 1 September 2021
Website Support and Development including provision of SEO and content administration services.
£5,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 1 September 2021
PHE Talk to FRANK website technical development
£250,000
- Awarded contractPublished 31 August 2021
Acas17202.1 Content Strategist
£232,500
- Closed tenderPublished 31 August 2021
Alpha Phase: Occupational Maps
£240,000
- Awarded contractPublished 31 August 2021
Electoral Integrity Programme Digital Service Discovery - Overseas Electors
£88,400
- Awarded contractPublished 31 August 2021
EIP Digital Service Discovery - Online Absent Vote applications / Identity Verification
£89,600
- Awarded contractPublished 31 August 2021
EIP Digital Service Discovery - Registration Process Efficiency (workstream 3/3)
£87,550
- Closed tenderPublished 31 August 2021
DHSC Hospital Facilities Fault Reporting App – Concluding Alpha and Delivering Private & Public Beta
£276,300
- Closed tenderPublished 31 August 2021
EHIE Subsidy Test
£1,600,000
- Awarded contractPublished 30 August 2021
Open Electric Vehicle (EV) chargepoint data
£115,388
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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