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
- Awarded contractPublished 25 November 2020
Business Analyst
£82,229
- Closed tenderPublished 24 November 2020
MHCLG Programme Mgt & Service Standards for Funding-Roles to complete Alpha+Beta Team CPD4121145
£180,000
- Expired contractPublished 24 November 2020
Provision of User Research Services
£25,050
- Awarded contractPublished 23 November 2020
Provision of a Digital Expenses System for Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service
£522,000
- Awarded contractPublished 23 November 2020
CRS Extranet - Outcomes for Alpha
£18,000
- Awarded contractPublished 23 November 2020
Service Delivery B - Package 1 – (Delivery & Product Management, Agile Coaching - London)
£2,400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2020
MHCLG Promotion and Application of Funding - Alpha + optional Beta Phases CPD4121144
£300,000
- Closed tenderPublished 23 November 2020
Government Property Profession Community & Skills Portal
£250,000
- Awarded contractPublished 23 November 2020
Service Delivery B - Package 2 – (Delivery & Product Management, Agile Coaching - Manchester)
£2,400,000
- Closed tenderPublished 19 November 2020
Content Designer for the build of the Transfer Digital Records (TDR) Service
GBP/DAY 320
- Closed tenderPublished 19 November 2020
Software Development Capability - Service delivery for academies and free schools
£12,127,750
- Closed tenderPublished 18 November 2020
GLA Digital Estate Rebuild (Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9)
£1,000,000
- Closed tenderPublished 18 November 2020
Better Buckinghamshire Digital Support
£910,000
- Closed tenderPublished 16 November 2020
DROITS BETA
Value not stated
- Closed tenderPublished 13 November 2020
User Experience Research Consultancy
£75,000
- Closed tenderPublished 12 November 2020
Technical capability to develop new and existing services for academies & free schools
£1,827,750
- Closed tenderPublished 11 November 2020
Beacons Beta Phase
£257,500
- Closed tenderPublished 11 November 2020
Beacons Beta Phase
£257,500
- Closed tenderPublished 11 November 2020
Ofgem 2020-152 Rewrite of Existing Non-Domestic Register and CRM
£1,200,000
- Expired contractPublished 11 November 2020
Provision of Socio Demographic Data
£19,500
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 2,116 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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