Posted Jul 22, 2015, 3:04 PM
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Children's hospital delayed
Scheduled to open in 2018
By Janet French, The StarPhoenix July 22, 2015
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Delays have pushed back the opening of the new Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan into 2018, the project director says.
Although the Saskatoon Health Region had initially hoped to award the contract for the estimated $260-million hospital by early July, that announcement likely won't happen until September, project director Craig Ayers said Tuesday.
Thanks to the holdup, construction likely won't start until mid-September, Ayers said. The region had hoped workers would be back on the site this month.
"Certainly, we're reminded of the complexity of the project and all the details," Ayers said.
In the spring, when the health region was finalizing the building's blueprints for tender, engineers pressed administrators for extra time to make sure the drawings were accurate and complete, Ayers said.
"(It's) in the best interest of the project we're doing things right."
Then, the bidders asked for three more weeks to turn in their proposals.
Although the team evaluating bids from the three finalists had initially said it would choose a winning bidder within 60 days, it extended that period to 105 days, Ayers said.
The evaluation team includes people from the health region, the provincial Health Ministry, the children's hospital management team and the prime architect, and is overseen by a "fairness monitor," Ayers said.
"They're going to start the construction later. But in the overall interest of the project, we'd suggest this is time well spent to make sure that we're doing things right."
The region has $258.9 million available to build the facility adjacent to Royal University Hospital. Ayers wouldn't say whether the three bids received are higher, lower or on budget. The region will release a specific price and construction schedule when it reveals the winning bidder in September, he said.
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