QEII redevelopment tender includes possibility of a new hospital

Michael Gorman · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The provincial wellness authorization issued a tender connected Thursday for maestro readying services arsenic portion of the continued redevelopment of the QEII Health Sciences Centre, enactment that could see the improvement of a caller infirmary building.

The tender calls for task absorption and architectural services for further redevelopment of buildings connected the field that includes the Halifax Infirmary and the bid of buildings astir the Victoria General Hospital.

The enactment would besides include, "if deemed required by Nova Scotia Health and the province, the improvement of an further QEII tract (location yet to beryllium determined)," according to the tender.

The archetypal word of the statement would beryllium for 2 years, with the wellness authorization having the quality to widen it for an further year. Submissions are owed by May 15.

"The nonsubjective of this RFP [request for proposal] is to found a multi-site maestro plan, resulting successful a wide knowing of circumstantial projects that addresses failing/inadequate infrastructure and the changing wellness attraction needs of the section assemblage and beyond," tender documents say.

Broad scope of work

The maestro readying enactment is to beryllium delivered successful 2 parts, the archetypal by December and the 2nd by Nov. 1, 2026.

The winning bidder volition beryllium tasked with an extended magnitude of readying that runs the gamut of services provided by the QEII, including: ambulatory attraction and outpatient clinics; insignificant procedures and endoscopy; biomedical engineering; crab care; captious attraction unit; diagnostic imaging; biology services; facilities management; bosom health; laboratory services; aesculapian instrumentality reprocessing; medical/surgical/rehabilitation/mental wellness inpatients; morgue; nutrition and nutrient services; pharmacy; determination insubstantial bank; information services; proviso concatenation logistics; and unpaid services.

The enactment besides includes a method gathering assessment, "which would measure and study connected the carnal information of the facility, including below-grade tunnels, successful bid to find if it has worth for aboriginal usage oregon requires replacement astatine a aboriginal date." The appraisal volition besides see the implications of deferring superior investment.

In considering the options for development, the study indispensable include: existing installation gathering constraints; caller carnal works requirements; parking request and proscription interaction studies.

If the state and wellness authorization find that maestro readying for an further QEII tract is needed, that enactment would necessitate a tract enactment and onshore appraisal study and a maestro program report.

First large redevelopment declaration signed

A erstwhile Liberal authorities started the redevelopment process successful 2015, but Premier Tim Houston announced an overhauled mentation successful precocious 2022 due to the fact that the Liberal program could nary longer accommodate the colonisation detonation the state experienced pursuing the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Progressive Conservative authorities signed a long-awaited declaration earlier this twelvemonth for the archetypal signifier of the Halifax Infirmary redevelopment, enactment that includes a 14-storey acute attraction operation with diligent beds and operating theatres, an intensive attraction portion and a caller exigency department.

The $7.4-billion woody includes operation costs and the cognition and attraction of the tract for 30 years.

Meanwhile, the beingness of the Victoria General Hospital continues to beryllium extended until the redevelopment enactment tin beryllium completed. The ailing tract has a litany of issues, including h2o that is not harmless for drinking and elevators that bash not work.

The tender documents released Thursday see a motion to the ongoing commercialized quality with the U.S. government.

In the conception that deals with eligibility, it notes that "the state reserves the close to exclude bids from jurisdictions wherever unfair commercialized barriers, including but not constricted to tariffs, person been imposed, oregon arsenic whitethorn beryllium justified by nationalist information oregon akin exceptions."