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Published 13 Oct 2026, 09:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Foundation in Human-Centred Design (CPUX-F) - Training and Certification

Official notice

Authority: Department for Work & Pensions (Central government)

Below threshold - without competition
Awarded value£12,950published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 13 Oct 2026no call for competition
Awarded to THIS IS GAIN LTD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Foundation in Human-Centred Design (CPUX-F) - Training and Certification.

GAIN UX Training - Foundation in Human-Centred Design (CPUX-F) - Training and Certification

The course is based on content from the International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board (UXQB) and is delivered remotely.

The course provides an introduction to usability and user experience in the areas of:

  • Usability principles and guidelines
  • Understanding and defining the context of use:

o Procedures for analysis

o Observation

o Interviews

o Personas

o Scenarios

o User groups

  • How to gather and specify user requirements
  • Describing user interactions:

o Design

o Low and high-fidelity prototypes

o Dialogue principles

o Heuristics

o Guidelines

o Best-practice error messaging

  • Usability testing and other evaluation methods

o A step-by-step approach to running a usability test

o Typical errors

o Heuristic evaluation

o Questionnaires

  • Interviews

o Personas

o Scenarios

o User group profiles

  • Systematically deriving user needs from context of use descriptions

o Differentiate between types of user needs

o Apply quality factors for user needs

o Recognise user needs in context of use information

o Formulate user needs so that enables requirements can be derived

  • Deriving, specifying, structuring and prioritising user requirements

o Validate user requirements with users

o Use of a structured scheme for prioritisation

o Ranking the relevance of user requirements together with users

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - without competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
13 Oct 2026, 09:53 BST
Last source update
13 Oct 2026, 09:53 BST
Authority reference
39050373139
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096379
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078634 Find a Tender

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Contract details notice published
    13 Oct 2026, 09:53 BST
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £12,9501 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 13 Oct 2026
Awarded toValueDateStatus
THIS IS GAIN LTD——Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 1 · THIS IS GAIN LTD

    Signed
    13 Oct 2026
    Value
    £12,950
    Period
    14 Oct 2026 – 13 Apr 2027
    Status
    active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Work & Pensions

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PJCP-7274-TLRQ Caxton House 7th Floor 6-12 Tothill Street, London, London, SW1H 9NAContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • THIS IS GAIN LTDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 16068670GB-PPON: PHHH-8326-ZYLY Avalon, Bournemouth, South West, BH8 8EZContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

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Notices published for this procedure

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