Assessment Venue and Invigilation Services - UK & EU

Buyer
General Medical Council (GMC)
Value
£2,500,000
Closes
18 November 2026
Where
Manchester, the North West
Type
Open tender

In plain English

The General Medical Council, the regulator for doctors and associated medical professions, wants a company to provide venues, invigilators (exam supervisors) and admin support for its written Applied Knowledge Test exams. The work covers UK and EU locations, with exams sat by up to 1,000 candidates at a time, and is split into a UK lot and an EU lot.

What the buyer wants

• Provide suitable exam venues across the UK (Lot 1) and/or Spain, Ireland and possibly other EU countries (Lot 2), with capacity for up to 1,000 candidates per venue • Supply trained invigilators and run each three-hour exam sitting to GMC standards, with flexible scheduling of up to four sittings a year • Handle the logistics and admin around each exam, including candidate bookings, which close two weeks before a UK exam and six weeks before an overseas one

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

Being able to guarantee venues of up to 1,000 seats across six UK cities, or multiple EU countries at short notice, would rule out most small businesses unless they bid for a single site or partner with larger providers.

How to bid

This is an open tender: any eligible business can respond directly to the buyer by the deadline, with no framework membership needed.

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