Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre (Location: Abbotsford, B.C.) Introduction: Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre (ARHCC) is a 300-bed Canadian Health Care facility in the city of British Columbia. This project was a long-term agreement between public sector and private sector. Partnership BC was managing project procurement from start to end, with the objective of delivering value for money. Summary: ARHCC project was the replacement of the MSA Hospital in Abbotsford. This Cancer Centre provides diagnostic and high-tech treatment services. David Woodward, former Associate Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health said that “The project will benefit all B.C. taxpayers through this performance-based contract which has achieved innovation and a positive economic benefit of $39 million.”. The successful completion of project attributed to procurement partnership between public and private …show more content…
sector. Public sector – the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) and the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) – provided clinical services. The Private partner, Access Health Abbotsford (AHA) was responsible for facility management services (food, housekeeping, linen services and laundry to support health care delivery). Lesson Learned: Good planning, organization, and clarity contributes to a successful procurement process.
Description: Ministry of Health Service (MHS) did fair and open competitive selection process which was the best example of procurement management in my opinion. For better procurement, MHS involved the private sector in order to reduce public-sector costs and risk. From this infrastructure project, I understood the “Finance – Design – Build – Operate – Maintain” model required to practice procurement services. To fulfill the objectives, project team considered traditional procurement and three public-private partnership procurement options. i. Traditional Capital Project: In this section, public sector takes care of all the finances, operations and maintenance of the facility. Whereas, private partner takes responsibility for design and construction under separate contracts. ii. Design – Build – Maintain: Public sector operates and finances the project and the private partner’s roll is to design, construct and maintain the facility for a specified time
period. iii. Design – Build – Operate – Maintain: Under this section, public sector owns and finances the project, whereas private partner will take the responsibilities of design, construction, operation, services and maintenance. iv. Finance – Design – Build – Operate – Maintain: Here, private sector owns, finances, operate, designs, constructs selected facility management services single handedly. After analyzing all four options considering project cost and time against the traditional procurement model, Ministry of Health Services selected the third option for this project. Moreover, a total of four procurement stages were considered: 1. Request for Expression of interest, 2. Request for Proposals (RFP), 3. Contract Finalization and 4. Project development to Substantial Completion. From this case study, I learned different approaches a partnership is formed between a public and private sector as far as Procurement Management is concerned. The ARHCC construction project was completed within the estimated budget and time because of new and improved procurement strategies and process design used. This was BC province’s first construction project under procurement partnership, and after successful completion, many other project teams were influenced and chose this type of new selection process to manage procurement. Using this Procurement Partnership, they fulfilled patient’s expectation of exceptional service and gave the slogan “Money raised in your community, stays in your community”.
Markham Stouffville Hospital (MSH) is an acute care Hospital in Markham Ontario. Every year almost 40,000 patients discharge referral transactions are conducted across 52 health care facilities in the Central Local Health Integration Network (CLHIN). I am currently working as a Hospital Case Manager (HCM) in Central Community Care Access Central (CCAC) at the Markham ...
The Saskatchewan heath care system is made up of several provincial, regional and local organizations, which provide the people their basic right to reasonable health care (“Health Systems,” 2014). Not having enough health care providers seem to be a problem, which Canada as a whole has struggled with (“College of Family,” 2014). The shortages of medical providers have lead to major discrepancies in the level of patient care between major urban centers and rural areas (Howlett, 2013). In the case of Saskatchewan many communities are facing this challenge, not only rural areas but also the capital city of the province (“Saskatchewan ER,” 2013). Stats Canada has showed that the number of physicians is at a historic high, yet Saskatchewan still face shortages (Howlett, 2013).
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It is obvious that there is a large gap between where Coastal Medical Center is and where they need and want to be. When comparing CMC’s competitors, Johnson Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center, CMC needs to provide more efficient, high quality care and focus on more profitable priorities instead of funding multiple unsuccessful projects such as the fifty-three unfinished developments.
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Some of these aspects include long wait times, uneven distribution of care, and most importantly, the various costs. Canada's system is certainly not the worst, but it is not the best either. The provision of care for Canadians is not flawless, however it is significantly better than some of the forms of care in other parts of the world. In contrast to the United States, Canada's healthcare system is thought of as a shining example of what they wish to achieve, but there are a few holes that need to be filled before any country can look up to Canadian healthcare. One of the issues that need to be address in Canada's healthcare system is about delivery, as there can be some bias as to who is eligible for things like proper treatments and surgeries. Another example could be being referred to a specialist that is not covered under a patient's insurance, resulting in possibly high costs. Lest Canadians be forgetful of no hospital bills or be ungrateful for the quality of the care and facilities, many still need to be educated on why the healthcare system is not entirely perfect. Therefore, this paper will outline why Canada's healthcare system has
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Over the last 10 years, there has been an accelerating global trend towards the execution of major public infrastructure projects on a privatized basis. Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) financing modalities, with the capability of
Capital improvement plans are the purchasing or construction of long-lasting physical assets. It can be either public or private. When private, it provides additional or increased efficiency for revenue generation. When public, it provides higher quality services to the community for many years. Typically, capital improvement plans are used by governments to foster economic development while also providing
In general, there are different types of procurement type for various situations, due to no one method can be suitable under the all different construction project. In this case, there are four procurement paths, which are traditional, design and build, management and design and manage, which will be advised to use. However, each method has different advantages and disadvantages. First, traditional path is the tender documents have been prepared and then invite the tender and the employer appoints the contractor to construct the project. There are several advantages of this traditional route in the construction industry.
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The physical- financial entity is a balance of two different components working towards the same common goal. Each one has their areas of focus and attributes to contribute to the project. If one has more influence than the other, an imbalance could occur and result in problems with the development and its success. The physical side must work with the architects, engineers, and construction team to create the schematic design and budget possibilities for the project in the predevelopment stage. This will include alternatives and rough preliminary designs. When the development moves over to the document development stage, they become responsible for the construction documents, budgeting, and schedules for the actual construction of the project. The financial side of the development involves the business side of the project. This is where the market and marketability studies will be conducted and various feasibility and investment analysis reports will be submitted. The financial entity of the development will continue to work through the predevelopment and document development stages to put forth the best suited analysis for the market, feasibility, and marketability studies.
All parties of construction project will benefit from IPD. The integrated process required more participants' involvement at early stage, because the IPD structure will recognize the compensation and reward at early involvement. The compensation will be based on adding value to the project and it will rewards what's the best for the project instead of individual benefit. For example providing incentives tied to achieving project objectives and goals. The concept is to use innovative business models to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
The main objective of any construction project is to assure that the project completes on committed time and within the budget allocated. Two major challenges faced are Time and cost which increase the urgency to adapt new and innovative techniques for the project to be successful.
model i.e. it is a Public Private People Partnership. The project is aimed to create maximum