diff --git a/tests/integration/contracts.json b/tests/integration/contracts.json
index c3dae267b5b..7e62424f091 100644
--- a/tests/integration/contracts.json
+++ b/tests/integration/contracts.json
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@
     "tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_auth_wire.py::test_bearer_environment_reference_loads_from_db_and_yaml_and_survives_reload": [
       "other.provider_wire.bedrock.bearer_db_yaml_survives_reload"
     ],
+    "tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_rerank_wire.py::test_forwarded_client_header_on_rerank_is_excluded_from_the_sigv4_signature": [
+      "providers.bedrock_rerank.forwarded_client_headers_are_sent_unsigned"
+    ],
     "tests/integration/streaming/test_stream_contracts.py::test_generated_tcp_partitions_preserve_unicode_text_identity_and_final_usage": [
       "other.streaming.byte_partitions.preserve_text_identity_and_usage"
     ],
diff --git a/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_rerank_wire.py b/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_rerank_wire.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86a3bbbd292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_rerank_wire.py
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Final
+
+import pytest
+import yaml
+from integration._support.client import Gateway
+from integration._support.process import owned_proxy
+from integration._support.wire import Reply, Request, wire_server
+
+MODEL: Final = "bedrock/arn:aws:bedrock:us-east-1::foundation-model/cohere.rerank-v3-5:0"
+ACCESS_KEY: Final = "AKIAINTEGRATION000002"
+FORWARDED_FOR: Final = "203.0.113.5"
+RESPONSE: Final = json.dumps(
+    {"results": [{"index": 1, "relevanceScore": 0.9}, {"index": 0, "relevanceScore": 0.1}]}
+).encode()
+
+
+def signed_headers(authorization: str) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    return tuple(authorization.split("SignedHeaders=")[1].split(",")[0].split(";"))
+
+
+def rerank_peer(request: Request) -> Reply:
+    assert request.method == "POST" and request.target == "/rerank"
+    assert request.headers["authorization"].startswith(f"AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential={ACCESS_KEY}/")
+    assert signed_headers(request.headers["authorization"]) == ("content-type", "host", "x-amz-date"), request.headers[
+        "authorization"
+    ]
+    assert request.headers["x-forwarded-for"] == FORWARDED_FOR
+    body: Final = json.loads(request.body)
+    assert body["queries"] == [{"textQuery": {"text": "synthetic rerank query"}, "type": "TEXT"}]
+    assert body["rerankingConfiguration"]["bedrockRerankingConfiguration"]["modelConfiguration"] == {
+        "modelArn": "arn:aws:bedrock:us-east-1::foundation-model/cohere.rerank-v3-5:0"
+    }
+    assert body["rerankingConfiguration"]["bedrockRerankingConfiguration"]["numberOfResults"] == 2
+    return Reply(body=RESPONSE)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.covers("providers.bedrock_rerank.forwarded_client_headers_are_sent_unsigned")
+def test_forwarded_client_header_on_rerank_is_excluded_from_the_sigv4_signature(
+    gateway: Gateway, tmp_path: Path
+) -> None:
+    empty: Final = tmp_path / "empty-aws-config"
+    empty.write_text("")
+    configuration: Final = yaml.safe_load(Path("tests/integration/proxy_config.yaml").read_text())
+    configuration["general_settings"]["forward_client_headers_to_llm_api"] = True
+    path: Final = tmp_path / "forwarding.yaml"
+    path.write_text(yaml.safe_dump(configuration))
+    overrides: Final = {
+        "AWS_CONFIG_FILE": str(empty),
+        "AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE": str(empty),
+        "AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED": "true",
+        "LITELLM_RUST": "false",
+    }
+    with wire_server(rerank_peer) as wire:
+        with (
+            owned_proxy(
+                gateway,
+                tmp_path,
+                overrides,
+                config=path,
+                remove_environment=tuple(name for name in os.environ if name.startswith("AWS_")),
+            ) as candidate,
+            candidate.scenario() as scenario,
+        ):
+            model: Final = scenario.model(
+                model=MODEL,
+                api_key=None,
+                api_base=None,
+                aws_region_name="us-east-1",
+                aws_bedrock_runtime_endpoint=wire.url,
+                aws_access_key_id=ACCESS_KEY,
+                aws_secret_access_key="synthetic-rerank-secret-key-for-testing",
+            )
+            response: Final = candidate.request(
+                "POST",
+                "/v1/rerank",
+                {
+                    "model": model,
+                    "query": "synthetic rerank query",
+                    "documents": ["first synthetic document", "second synthetic document"],
+                    "top_n": 2,
+                },
+                headers={"x-forwarded-for": FORWARDED_FOR},
+            )
+            assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
+            assert response.json()["results"] == [
+                {"index": 1, "relevance_score": 0.9},
+                {"index": 0, "relevance_score": 0.1},
+            ], response.text
+            assert len(wire.drain()) == 1