Dynamic Purchasing System for the provision of Final Year Veterinary Student Teaching
SRUC · Scotland
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What the buyer wants
SRUC is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System to appoint veterinary practices to provide practical clinical teaching, mentoring, and assessment for final-year veterinary students across seven lots. Practices must meet accreditation, insurance, supervision, and facility standards to be admitted.
SRUC intends to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of practical clinical teaching, mentoring and assessment for final-year Bachelor of Veterinary Science students undertaking intramural rotations. SRUC is seeking applications from suitably qualified registered veterinary practices capable of providing high-quality, supervised, work-based clinical learning aligned with SRUC learning outcomes, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Day 1 Competences and relevant accreditation requirements.
Description as published on Public Contracts Scotland: read the official notice.
How Tenderoo reads it
This is a dynamic purchasing system (a dynamic market under the Procurement Act): suppliers can apply to join at any point while it runs, and work is awarded in rounds to the members. A missed deadline is not the end of it.
The notice reads as suitable for a small or medium-sized firm: the scope, value and requirements are within reach of a business of that size.
Services required
- Veterinary clinical teaching
- Mentoring and assessment of final-year veterinary students
- Supervised work-based clinical learning
What you will need to show
- Compliance with health and safety law — Suppliers must comply with applicable health and safety legislation as verified by a site visit.
- Employers' and public liability insurance — Suppliers must hold minimum insurance cover of GBP 5 million for employer’s liability and GBP 5 million for public liability.
- Professional indemnity insurance — Suppliers must hold minimum professional indemnity insurance cover of GBP 250 thousand.
- Completion of Single Procurement Document (Scotland) — Suppliers must complete the Single Procurement Document (Scotland) as part of the mandatory requirements.
- Completion of SRUC questionnaire — Suppliers must complete SRUC’s questionnaire as part of the mandatory requirements.
- Site visit for compliance verification — Suppliers must undergo a site visit to verify compliance with the requirements.
- RCVS Practice Standards Scheme accreditation or equivalent — Suppliers must have RCVS Practice Standards Scheme accreditation at Core level or demonstrate equivalent standards.
Documents to submit
- Single Procurement Document (Scotland)
- SRUC questionnaire
- Procurement documents detailing full requirements and evidence
Lots
- Companion Animal — SRUC’s School of Veterinary Medicine uses a distributed model of veterinary education. The DPS will enable SRUC to appoint veterinary practices to host final-year students on clinical rotations and to provide practical clinical experience, mentoring and formal assessment. Placements are expected to involve 35 hours of supervised activity per week. Clinical mentors should be MRCVS veterinary surgeons with at least three years’ relevant clinical experience, normally operating at a clinical mentor-to-student ratio of 1:2. The DPS is expected to comprise seven Lots. Applicants may apply for one, several or all Lots. The DPS will remain open throughout its period of validity. There will be no limit on the number of practices admitted. Applicants satisfying the applicable selection criteria, mandatory requirements and exclusion checks may be admitted. Admission to the DPS shall be on a Pass / Fail basis and mandatory requirements are expected to involve: 1. completion of the Single Procurement Document (Scotland); 2. completion of SRUC’s questionnaire; 3. a site visit to verify compliance with the requirement. Interested parties should note that appointment to the DPS does not guarantee any volume or value of work. Indicative minimum requirements include RCVS Practice Standards Scheme accreditation at Core level or above, or demonstrably equivalent standards; appropriate supervision, facilities, caseload and staffing; and minimum insurance cover of GBP 5 million for employer’s liability, GBP 250 thousand for professional indemnity and GBP 5 million for public liability, as applicable. Full requirements and evidence are set out in the procurement documents. SRUC’s indicative tariff is GBP 350 (excluding VAT) per student per week of placement. Where accommodation is provided by the practice, it is anticipated that this will be included within the weekly tariff. The tariff and its annual indexation mechanism will be confirmed in the procurement documents. Contracts will reflect the number of students and rotation types that each practice can accommodate. The procurement will be conducted electronically in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and applicable Scottish procurement legislation. Individual placement requirements will be awarded in accordance with the rules stated in the procurement documents. Suppliers may apply to join the DPS at any time during its validity.
- Equine — See Lot 1.
- Production Animal — See Lot 1.
- Rural Mixed — See Lot 1.
- Referral — See Lot 1.
- Elective — See Lot 1.
- Selective — See Lot 1.
Key facts
- Buyer: SRUC
- Deadline: 2 December 2026
- Location: Scotland
- Published on: Public Contracts Scotland — read the official notice
- First seen by Tenderoo: 3 November 2026
- CPV: 85200000
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