User Researcher Tenders and Contracts

User research procurement covers participant recruitment for studies and testing sessions, research and usability testing platforms bought as software, and commissioned user research and usability testing for websites and public services. User experience, content and service design support comes up too, and researchers appear as named roles inside digital specialist contracts.

Stotles brings together user research 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. User research is mostly called off the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework and the Crown Commercial Service Research and Insights agreement, with platform licences taken through G-Cloud.

User research tenders are scored on research methods, accessibility and inclusion of participants, team experience, Government Service Standard knowledge and day rates. Briefs are short, so a sharp response to the question asked helps.

User research must handle participant data in line with UK data protection law with informed consent, and recruiting vulnerable participants needs safeguarding checks. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Often. Notices include call-offs under the Crown Commercial Service Research and Insights agreement and briefs run through the Digital Outcomes route, alongside notices published straight to a portal. Check which agreements a buyer already holds before chasing an open notice.

User research buying mostly runs as call-offs from frameworks such as Digital Outcomes and Specialists and the CCS Research and Insights agreement, with platform licences often taken through G-Cloud. Buyers range from central government departments, agencies and regulators to councils, NHS bodies and public broadcasters.

Read digital strategies, service assessment plans, discovery-phase briefs and research participant recruitment contract expiry dates, which show user research work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the digital teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

User research notices carry 73110000 (Research services) and 79315000 (Social research services). There is no dedicated code, and plenty of this work is procured as digital delivery rather than as research.