Three Teams Shortlisted for Cancer Centre in P.G.

Monday, December 15, 2008 12:26 PM

Three qualified proponent teams have been shortlisted to participate in the request for proposals (RFP) phase of the competition to design, build, finance and maintain the BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North in Prince George.

Four teams responded to the request for qualifications which closed on Oct. 21. Following evaluation of the responses received, three teams were shortlisted. They are:

Northern Gateway Health;

* Innisfree Ltd.
* Health Care Projects (Canada) Ltd.
* Chernoff Thompson Architects
* Vermeulen Hind Architects
* Stuart Olson Constructors Inc.
* H.H. Angus
* Investec North America
* ACML Management Western Limited
* Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

Plenary Health;

* Plenary Group (Canada) Ltd.
* PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc.
* Johnson Controls LP
* CEI Architecture

Sequence Health* Gracorp Capital Advisors Ltd.
* Graham Design Build Services
* Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning
* Honeywell Limited
* Ernst & Young Orenda Corporate Finance Inc.
* Davis LLP
* Genivar
* Bush Bohlman & Partners

The short-listed teams will be invited to respond to the request for proposals . The RFP stage will result in the selection of a preferred proponent to undertake the cancer centre project in Prince George.

The BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North project is one component of the Northern Cancer Control Strategy, a joint initiative undertaken by the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), BC Cancer Agency and Northern Health. The new Centre for the North will provide residents of northern B.C. with increased access to cancer treatment and diagnostic services. The cancer centre will be located on the Prince George Regional Hospital site. The 4,200-square-metre facility will
include two linear accelerators used in the delivery of radiation therapy treatment. The centre will be designed to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.

The cancer centre was approved by the Province on July 18, 2008. Construction is targeted to start in late 2009, with a completion goal of 2012.

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Posted by: He speaks on December 15 2008 1:55 PM
Can't be quick enought

Posted by: bowzone_mikey on December 15 2008 4:35 PM
kinda curious on where they plan on putting it and where they plan on parking staff and client vehicles, I wonder what the Hospital Maintenace Employees think of some outside outfit (ACML, Johnson and Honeywell) about running the facility ..

this would be a step towards the 3P program like in Vernon and Kelowna where the employees were laid off and hired by the winner for More hourly wage but 0 benifits and no Vacation time

Posted by: lunarguy on December 15 2008 5:20 PM
you got bowzone, contract it all out to save money, but the only way they save is to cut benefits to the employees. It is called a P3 and has time and time again not worked out for the benefit of the taxpayer. Trouble is our government likes to give money to big business as the taxpayer pool is endless.

Posted by: gus on December 15 2008 5:46 PM
3P? Is that 3 guys peeing?

Posted by: gus on December 15 2008 5:52 PM
http://www.pppcouncil.ca/sponsors/membership_dir_sponsors_ernst.asp

It seems to me that if the government puts all its eggs in one basket in the next 10 years or so, we could be in for a project meltdown the same as the financiers have managed to do with the western world economies.

Never good to put all eggs in one basket in case you trip.

Posted by: He speaks on December 15 2008 8:04 PM
gus, the meltdown is because in the states, there is very little rules in banking thus, they were loaning money to people who did not even have a job. Remember those get quick schemes on infomercials, where they were bragging about howmuch money they made in real estate. Guess what, their little party is over.

Too bad the rest of the world got caught with the bad mortgages out in the finance market.

Posted by: He speaks on December 15 2008 8:05 PM
My money is going to be on the Stuart Olsen group.

Posted by: gus on December 15 2008 11:49 PM
The important member of the group is Innisfee Ltd. which is a British investment company who are providing the funding for the project. They just got their first Canadian project this year - Royal Jubilee in Victoria, 500 bed patient bed extension.

About 60% of their 8 billion pound investments are in health care facilties a pretty sure bet to be in.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=48010943-b671-47a0-8848-823d88aaa41b&k=12209

Posted by: DPJ on December 16 2008 3:34 AM
My bet: Northern Gateway Health. Sound local enough for me.

Posted by: gus on December 16 2008 7:29 AM
The same key players assembled a team called ISL Health for a winning bid at the Victoria 500 bed hospital expansion. (ISL=Island)

Notice that two of the teams have identified law firms associated with them.

Here is the same team with different architects. In our case, if they win, Vermeulen from Toronto will likely be the lead design architects since they have designed several successful cancer clinics since 2000

http://partnershipsbc.ca/files/documents/fsislhealth7april2008.pdf