User Researcher Tenders and Contracts
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.
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 26 March 2021
Future of AI in Health and Social Care
£100,000
- Expired contractPublished 25 March 2021
Peopletoo
£70,750
- Awarded contractPublished 24 March 2021
Provision of specialist advice relating to road research into inclusive design
£71,895
- Closed tenderPublished 23 March 2021
Oxford-Cambridge Arc Data Observatory (Joint Digital Evidence Base) Alpha
£112,500
- Closed tenderPublished 23 March 2021
Discovery for redesigning Renfrewshire Council’s digital experience estate
£80,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 March 2021
GLA OPS – continuous development and technical support
£1,100,000
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
Investment Security Unit - Discovery and Alpha
£287,250
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
Managing temporary accommodation end-to-end
£293,400
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
User centred design and digital transformation partner
£1,000,000
- Expired contractPublished 22 March 2021
Tool for Shared Parental Leave (Beta stage)
£77,250
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
User Research Capability - North West
£2,500,000
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
Delivery Partner for One IPO - Manage IP Discovery
£392,850
- Awarded contractPublished 22 March 2021
Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) Beta
£449,710
- Awarded contractPublished 19 March 2021
User experience and copywriting for UKAEA careers website
£21,125
- Expired contractPublished 19 March 2021
User Research Participant Recruitment and Incentive Payments
£400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 19 March 2021
HMCTS Civil, Family and Tribunal User Experience Services
£3,750,000
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 18 March 2021
Provider of a set of online resources for Designated Safeguarding Leads
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 18 March 2021
HMCTS Civil, Family and Tribunal User Experience Service
£3,750,000
- Expired contractPublished 18 March 2021
UK SBS DDaT20361 UKRI Funding Service Beta/Live UX, User Research and Service Design Team
£900,000
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 18 March 2021
Provider of a set of online resources for Designated Safeguarding Leads
Value not stated
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 2,116 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 research services, social research services, and the broader IT services consulting and development code. 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?
A handful, against a much larger pool of awarded notices. 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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