UX and UI Design Tenders and Contracts

UX and UI design tenders cover the design of screens, user journeys and interaction patterns for public sector websites, apps, intranets and case management systems, and the usability testing that checks a design works before it goes live. Most of this work is bought as a lot inside a larger digital rebuild or framework agreement rather than as a standalone design contract, and a share of the notices are for contracted UX or UI designer resource to sit inside a buyer's own in-house digital team rather than for a fixed deliverable. Buyers use UX design and UI design loosely, sometimes for the same piece of work, so a designer resourcing call is filed the same way as a dedicated design project.

Stotles brings together UX and UI design tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. UX and UI design is mostly called off from the Digital Outcomes framework or bought as a design lot in a buyer's own digital frameworks, with designer resource sometimes hired through recruitment routes.

Public sector interfaces must meet the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 and WCAG, and government services are assessed against the Service Standard. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar work at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Most UX and UI design work is bought as a lot inside a larger contract rather than as its own tender: a website rebuild, a case management system or a brand refresh that names interface design or usability testing as one deliverable among several. Framework call-offs are the other common route, particularly for central government and NHS bodies, where a design lot sits alongside software development and platform engineering lots on the same framework. A smaller, distinct group of notices are for contracted UX or UI designer resource, recruited to sit inside a buyer's own in-house digital team rather than to deliver a fixed project.

Buyers include central government departments, councils, NHS bodies, universities and arm's-length public bodies.

Read digital transformation business cases, website and app rebuild plans, preliminary market engagement and framework renewal dates, which show UX and UI design work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

UX and UI design notices carry 79340000 (Advertising and marketing services), 79600000 (Recruitment services) and 72413000 (World wide web (www) site design services).