Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- UK CAT Consortium Ltd · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £27,000,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 012559-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Dec 2023
- Published2 Apr 2025Published 477 days after the contract date
Description
The UCAT test is an aptitude exam, designed to measure innate cognitive abilities in addition to individuals’ judgement regarding situations encountered in a target role. The test is used in selection by a consortium of UK universities for entry to medical and dental training. The current exam consists of five separately timed subtests - Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning and the Situational Judgement Test. Items (questions) include those developed from operational items used in previous administrations and new items trialled in previous years. The Consortium owns the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in existing test content. The test is currently delivered to candidates at physical test locations in the UK and internationally from July through to October. A small number of candidates take the test online. In 2022 over 36,000 candidates sat the test. Test scores are delivered to universities in early November. The delivery of the test is un…
About the supplier
Pearson Professional Assessments Ltd.: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04904325).