RFPs closed for Trillium Health Partners redevelopment project

Ontario Construction News staff writer

The Request for Proposals (RFP) stage has closed for the Trillium Health Partners (THP) broader redevelopment–Queensway Health Centre project.

Expansion at the ‘Future Home of The Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre’ will be a a purpose-built environment for complex care and rehabilitation services where patients can receive care and recover. The project will also include construction of a standalone central utility plant and construction of a new parking structure as a separate early works project.

EllisDon was prequalified in May 2022 to continue in the procurement process. Selection criteria included the required construction experience and financial capacity to deliver a project of this size and complexity.

The project is being delivered using a Build-Finance P3 model. Key features of a Build-Finance model include construction risk transfer to the private sector intended to result in greater cost and schedule certainty.

The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital is part of Trillium Health Partners’ plan to build a new kind of health care that serves our growing and diverse community for the decades ahead. The new hospital will be a full replacement of the existing hospital and will redefine a new urban focused on health in this part of the city.

Features include:

• At 22 storeys, The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital will almost triple the size of the current hospital and will be approximately 2.8 million square feet.
• The new hospital will be over 950 beds.
• The number of operating rooms will increase to 23, up from 14 today.
• 100% of patient rooms will be private rooms
• A new and expanded Emergency Department (ED) – creating one of the largest EDs in the province – reducing wait times and improving the patient experience.
• The new hospital will also include advanced diagnostic imaging facilities and a new pharmacy and clinical laboratory.

Over the next few months, IO and THP will evaluate the RFP submission and if successful, negotiate the terms for a contract. Construction is expected to begin in 2024.

IO and THP are working with the Ontario Ministry of Health to deliver this project.