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Question reference: S3W-29003

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the procurement process is for the new Southern General Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is the procuring authority. The board''s procurement strategy utilised the competitive dialogue procedure to facilitate discussion with bidders around pre-determined technical and commercial matters. The outcome of the competitive dialogue is the selection of a preferred partner who will contract with the board under a National Engineering and Construction contract (NEC) agreement to (i) design and construct the new laboratory building and (ii) design and construct the new adult and children''s hospital under a target/maximum price arrangement.

This arrangement provides for the contract to be awarded following evaluation of the bids which were submitted on 11 September 2009. Post contract award, concurrent activities of the contractor are commencing the design and build of the laboratories element of the project, whilst undertaking design development of the hospitals element of the project. The (design development) culminates in the full business case compilation and approvals (October/November 2010): this forming an essential gateway which must be achieved to allow the commencement of the construction of the new hospitals element of the project.

The terms of the contract awarded (including the overall target/maximum price for the works and programme dates and activity schedule milestones) are based on the preferred contractor''s final tender response at the end of the competitive dialogue process. As is noted above, specific gateway criteria (including necessary business case approvals) are incorporated into the design development, programme and activity schedule in the contract through to the commencement of construction of the adult and children''s hospital.

In 2008, the board considered the time and cost implications of the bidding market in its procurement strategy and considered that the route adopted should reflect the market requirements and the commercial drivers of bidding a scheme of this size, nature and type: this was supported by the market sounding and engagement process that took place with potential bidders during third quarter 2008.

In summary, the stages of the procurement can be summarised in outline as follows:

Stage	Heading	Outline Activities/Milestones
Stage 0	Competitive Dialogue	Bid and design development leading to submission of technical and cost information in final tenders. Identify maximum target price and agree pain/gain share. Select contractor “ contract award.
Stage 1	Construct Laboratories	Consecutive to Stage 0 and concurrent with Stage 2.
Stage 2	Detailed Design of Adult, Children''s and Infrastructure to FBC Submission	Design development of adult and children''s hospitals.
Stage 3	Construct Adult and Children''s Hospital	Consecutive to Stage 2.
Stage 3A	Demolition of Surgical Block and associated buildings and completion of soft landscaping	Consecutive to Stage 3.

This contract is based on the standard template NEC3 “ Engineering and Construction Contract Option C Target Contract with Secondary Option Clauses as stated in Contract Data. Fuller details of this contract are available at http://www.neccontract.com/.

Question reference: S3W-29006

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a tender pre-qualification for the Southern General Hospital contract included previous experience of building a hospital and whether the successful bidder met that condition.

The tender pre-qualification questionnaire required bidders to demonstrate relevant technical experience of at least one £200+ million healthcare project in the last three years and the preferred bidder met this criteria.

Brookfield have completed over 12 hospitals worldwide. Brookfield''s health personnel allocated to this project have been responsible for other significant health developments that include the new Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, the Addenbrooke''s Hospital Elective Care Centre, the redevelopment of Colchester Hospital and extensions to the Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Current projects in which Brookfield are involved currently is the completion of a state-of-the-art new 612 bed acute hospital in Peterborough worth £350 million. The acute hospital will be opened next year and is currently three months ahead of schedule, The Mental Health Unit and the City Care Centre, part of this PPP project, have both been completed on programme.

Globally Brookfield is delivering the design and construction of the $1.76 billion (AUS) Fiona Stanley Hospital at Murdoch, Australia. The 643-bed hospital includes acute and medical surgical services, cancer services, emergency department, paediatrics and radiology services. Completion is expected in late 2013.

The key supply chain involved in the South Glasgow project have been selected based largely upon their ability to deliver complex healthcare projects in a collaborative environment.

Question reference: S3W-29004

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive who assessed and determined the bids for the new Southern General Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as the procuring authority are responsible for this process.

The evaluation of the bids was undertaken by a team with the appropriate skills, relevant knowledge and expertise to undertake the review and evaluation of technical and commercial submissions on a complex healthcare project. The board''s team comprised technical, legal, financial, clinical and non-clinical representatives with a total of 36 people being involved. The evaluation scoring of the bids was by consensus against compliance with the board''s requirements set out in their Invitation To Participate in Dialogue documentation.

Four groups undertook selective evaluation of each of the bids against the board''s requirements in the areas of:

Design

Logistics

Laboratories

Commercial.

The evaluation process was over viewed by the commercial team which acted in a governance capacity to ensure due process was complied with and scoring activities were applied fairly across all bids. The overall procurement process was overseen by the board''s head of procurement.

Question reference: S3W-29008

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the successful bidder for the new Southern General hospital was the highest cost bidder.

Question reference: S3W-29002

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital cost is of building the new Southern General Hospital.

The total funding requirement associated with the provision of the new adult and children''s hospitals and laboratory project, as identified within the outline business case (January 2008), is £841.7 million. The associated construction cost of the three buildings based on the preferred bidders target price is circa £670 million including VAT, and is within the capital allowance in the outline business case.

Question reference: S3W-29009

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the successful bidder for the new Southern General hospital has (a) its company headquartered and (b) branches operating in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-29020

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what its view is on the comment made in Building Design on 13 November 2009 about Richard Harrington of Nightingale Associates, successful bidders for the new Southern General Hospital, that “recruitment could be confined to South Africa where its team will carry out room layout plans. Nightingale has a number of schemes in Scotland but Harrington said it would probably just open a project office there rather than a permanent one.”

Question reference: S3W-29013

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will estimate the number of jobs that will be lost as a result of awarding the contract to build the new Southern General Hospital to a company or companies headquartered outwith Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-28778

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards are not complying with national guidance on IVF treatment.

In response to the recent questionnaire from Infertility Network Scotland, the following NHS boards consider they are partially complying with national guidance on IVF treatment and are continuing to work towards full compliance:

NHS Fife,

NHS Forth Valley,

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,

NHS Lothian and

NHS Tayside.

The remainder of boards consider they are fully compliant with national guidance.

Question reference: S3W-28878

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it is reviewing the lay membership of managed clinical networks.

Our Long Term Conditions Action Plan, published in June this year, asks NHS boards and the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland to review the structure of each managed clinical network to ensure that people with long-term conditions, their carers and the voluntary sector are enabled to participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services, drawing on experience from the Hearty Voices and similar programmes.

The action is intended to underpin one of the core principles of all managed clinical networks: that they should include strong patient and voluntary sector participation. This represents a practical way of implementing our aim that improvements in the quality of healthcare services should draw directly on people''s own experience of service provision.

The Voices Scotland programme, run by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland and its third sector partners, provides training and support to lay people with heart disease, stroke, diabetes and respiratory conditions who wish to participate effectively in the work of their local managed clinical networks, as well as in wider initiatives relating to the NHS.