Infrastructure Ontario and Cambridge Memorial Hospital issued, on June 5th, a request for qualifications (RFQ) to build and finance the hospital's redevelopment project.

The project includes a combination of renovations and new construction at the hospital. Highlights include:

• A new acute care wing will be built to include:
  • clinical services: surgical suite, birthing suite, emergency department, medical/surgical unit, intensive care, maternal newborn, pediatrics, nuclear medicine and mental health unit
  • clinical support services: laboratory and medical devices reprocessing
  • other services: medical education campus, main entrance, lobby and registration
• Major interior renovations will occur in the existing 'B Wing' and will support infrastructure and space standards upgrades primarily to the following units:
  • clinical services: rehabilitation, medical surgical and emergency
  • clinical support services: diagnostic imaging

The request for qualifications is the first step in the procurement process to select a team to build and finance the project. Submissions will be reviewed to pre-qualify project teams with the required construction capability, experience and the financial capacity to undertake a project of this size and complexity. These teams will then be invited to respond to a request for proposals, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2013.

Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are working with Cambridge Memorial Hospital to expand and renovate the facility, which will remain publicly owned, publicly controlled and publicly accountable.