diff --git a/test/versioned/aws-sdk-v3/bedrock-chat-completions.tap.js b/test/versioned/aws-sdk-v3/bedrock-chat-completions.tap.js
index f2fb5a4427..c5491fe0e0 100644
--- a/test/versioned/aws-sdk-v3/bedrock-chat-completions.tap.js
+++ b/test/versioned/aws-sdk-v3/bedrock-chat-completions.tap.js
@@ -13,20 +13,16 @@ const createAiResponseServer = require('../../lib/aws-server-stubs/ai-server')
 const { FAKE_CREDENTIALS } = require('../../lib/aws-server-stubs')
 const { DESTINATIONS } = require('../../../lib/config/attribute-filter')
 
-const pkgVersion = (function () {
-  try {
-    const { version } = require('@smithy/smithy-client/package.json')
-    return version
-  } catch {
-    try {
-      const {
-        version
-      } = require('./node_modules/@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime/node_modules/@smithy/smithy-client/package.json')
-      return version
-    } catch {}
-  }
-  /* eslint-disable-next-line */
-}())
+// The shim will utilize the version of `@smithy/smithy-client` that is required
+// by the `@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime` module to set the version string
+// on metrics. So we want to require that specific version instead of the one
+// in our dependency tree. We can't use `require.resolve('mod', { paths: [] })`
+// here because that appends the paths to the lookup tree instead of prepending
+// them. Thus, we will still occasionally resolve to the module in our tree
+// instead of the one in the test suite's tree.
+const {
+  version: pkgVersion
+} = require('./node_modules/@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime/node_modules/@smithy/smithy-client/package.json')
 
 const requests = {
   ai21: (prompt, modelId) => ({