[en] Calculations of the collision strength for excitation of the 2p state of Be⁺ are performed at incident energies of 2, 5, and 8 Ry. A modified five state close coupling expansion is used in which three pseudo-states anti 3s, anti 3p, and anti 3d are retained in addition to target states 2s and 2p. Pseudostates are chosen so that, for a given incident electron energy, there is a minimum in the dominant partial wave collision strength with respect to variation of the range parameter. Collision strengths are obtained which lie between five state calculations of Hayes et al. and measurements of Taylor et al