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Baseline and endline studies, impact evaluations, third-party monitoring, household surveys, feasibility and market studies, and applied policy research for development programmes.
These are the organisations with the most research, studies & evaluation notices open in United Kingdom right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.
Since 13 Aug 2026, FreeTender has recorded 32 research, studies & evaluation notices in United Kingdom, 17 of them open today. The median bid window is 28 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is GBP 144 thousand (25 priced notices).
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UK public procurement is published centrally — Find a Tender for higher-value contracts and Contracts Finder for lower-value ones — alongside sectoral portals for the NHS, local authorities and devolved administrations. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems account for a large share of spend, so much of the market is reached by getting onto a framework rather than by bidding for individual contracts.
Across the research, studies & evaluation notices we currently hold for United Kingdom, the most common form is the rfi, followed by open tender or invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.
Suppliers complete a standard selection questionnaire covering financial standing, insurance, health and safety, and relevant experience. Above-threshold procurements follow published procedures with defined standstill periods before award. Social value is a scored element in central government procurement, so a proposal that ignores it loses marks that are available to everyone.
Research and evaluation assignments are commissioned by UN agencies, development banks, bilateral donors and international NGOs, and are almost always awarded on quality-and-cost rather than price alone — commonly 70:30 or 80:20 in favour of the technical proposal. The decisive elements are the proposed methodology, the named team and the evaluator's independence from the programme being assessed. Expect to be asked for a sampling frame, an analysis plan, ethics and safeguarding arrangements for research with human subjects, and prior assignments of comparable scope. Terms of reference frequently name a specific framework — the OECD-DAC criteria for evaluations, or a donor's own results framework — and a proposal that ignores it loses marks that were freely available. Data ownership and publication rights normally sit with the commissioning agency; check whether you may cite the work later.
Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.
North Lincolnshire Council
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)
Cheshire East Council
Erewash Borough Council
Southend-on-Sea City Council
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
BANK OF ENGLAND
Westminster City Council
Department for Education
Cornwall Council
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)
Worcestershire County Council
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL LIMITED
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