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, plus 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.

There is no CPV code specifically for UX or UI design. Notices in this set carry the code for the parent project instead: IT services, consulting, software development and internet support for a digital rebuild that includes a design lot, world wide web site design services for a dedicated web design brief, advertising and marketing services where design sits inside a brand or communications contract, and recruitment services where the notice is for a contracted UX or UI designer rather than a fixed-price project.

Watch the digital delivery frameworks buyers already hold, since a UX or UI design lot inside one of these rarely gets its own advance notice: call-offs under the Digital Outcomes framework often name the design work only once the call-off itself is published, not before. Pre-market engagement notices and early digital transformation business cases are the other signal, published while a buyer is still shaping a wider website, app or case management rebuild, before it has been split into design, build and testing lots. Stotles surfaces both the framework call-offs and the early engagement notices, so a design team can follow a buyer from that early signal through to the live opportunity.

UX and UI design tenders sit on the design and build side: the screens, interaction patterns and interfaces a supplier actually designs and puts in front of users, plus the usability testing that checks a design works. User Experience Tenders sits further upstream, on the research side: user research, journey mapping and the discovery work that finds out what a service should do before anyone designs a screen for it. The two overlap in practice, since a single digital contract often buys research and design together, and a notice mentioning usability testing or UX design can appear on either page.

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.