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 16 July 2021
C21542 Home Office ES Operations – ServiceNow Burst Capability
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 16 July 2021
Development of Health & Social Care Standards Register and Alpha of contribution model features
£500,000
- Closed tenderPublished 16 July 2021
Acas17209 - DOS Assisted Notification
£625,000
- Closed tenderPublished 15 July 2021
Core running, support, upkeep and improvements to Sport England Websites
£343,499
- Closed tenderPublished 15 July 2021
DIT Digital Design Support Development Team
£750,000
- Closed tenderPublished 15 July 2021
CPD4121221 - Homebuying and Selling (Digital Discovery)
£90,000
- Closed tenderPublished 15 July 2021
NHSBSA Expanding Digital Capacity
Value not stated
- Awarded contractPublished 15 July 2021
Discovery for redesigning Renfrewshire Council’s digital experience estate
£79,800
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2021
Delivery Manager - Portfolio Support
GBP/DAY 600
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2021
Delivery Manager - E-Procurement
GBP/DAY 600
- Closed tenderPublished 14 July 2021
NHSBSA Technology Resource Delivery Partner
Value not stated
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2021
Re-imagining Waltham Forest’s digital channel strategy and website delivery plan post-Covid
£94,650
- Closed tenderPublished 12 July 2021
A partner agency to work with us to build discrete features on our new website content platform
£240,000
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2021
Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer
£41,400
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2021
MHCLG Local Plans Template Alpha (2021) CPD4122012.
£86,400
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2021
C31006 - Resource Augmentation / Professional Services (Oracle ApEx)
£500,000
- Closed tenderPublished 12 July 2021
Wellness and Prevention - Alpha
£2,000,000
- Awarded contractPublished 12 July 2021
Delivery Partner for the FCDO's Future Service Management (FSM) Programme
£2,986,406.2
- Expired contractPublished 9 July 2021
Safety by Design Framework
£162,600
- Closed tenderPublished 9 July 2021
Open Electric Vehicle (EV) chargepoint data
£225,000
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 2,117 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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