Contract to develop an interim educational in-service practical training programme for student pharmacists (the "Programme") for the academic years 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 and to design and deliver a professional registration examination (PRE) together with certain related services on behalf of the PSI.

The PSI envisages that at the end of the three-year Programme, a fully integrated five-year degree for pharmacists will have commenced across the various schools of pharmacy in the Irish jurisdiction. The contract was being awarded for three years and is being awarded under the Open Procedure.