WAHA Redevelopment Project RFP released
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) have issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a team to deliver the WAHA Redevelopment Project.
The redevelopment project involves the construction of discrete facilities, including a health campus in Moosonee and an ambulatory care centre on Moose Factory Island.
Specifically, the Moosonee facility will include 36 in-patient beds in private rooms, an expanded emergency department, modern surgical suites, expanded programming for mental health and addictions, a new 32-bed Elder Care Lodge, a hostel for patients and visitors, and residences for staff.
The care centre on Moose Factory Island will include emergency health services, diagnostic imaging capabilities, traditional healing and spirituality, and health promotion programming.
These facilities will support WAHA in providing culturally appropriate health care to patients and clients living along Ontario’s James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts, many of whom are Indigenous.
The RFP is the first step in IO’s new progressive procurement approach. The approach encourages the participation of a long-term, sustainable market of qualified firms that are competing to deliver projects through more collaborative means.
The successful bidder at the conclusion of the RFP process will work in collaboration with IO and WAHA under a development phase agreement to further define and refine project requirements, and design, pricing and risk parameters.
The RFP process is expected to close this summer, after which IO and WAHA will evaluate the submissions and select a partner to enter into a development phase agreement for the development phase.
Upon completion of the development phase, the development partner is expected to enter into a fixed-price, public-private partnership agreement to design, build and finance the project.