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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.

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.

The Cape Town branch office supports Nightingale Associates in the UK for a single, highly-specialised phase of the design stage on any project. The SA-based team has developed highly efficient practices for producing approximately 3% of the overall design workload, the rest being completed in the UK. This enables the UK offices to invest more on the work that essentially must be produced in the UK because of its interface with the construction activities.

This well tried approach allows Nightingale the maximum potential for developing a Scotland-based design team using locally-recruited architects who will work from a newly-established office in Glasgow to deliver the vast majority of the architectural work. Nightingale Associates has a history of working in Scotland, and are committed to using local staff and resources as appropriate to the needs of the project.

The firm is currently also working on other projects through the NHSScotland''s Frameworks Scotland initiative in collaboration with other Scottish-based architects and design team members and are committed to employing local resources particularly during the delivery stages of the design process.

It is a matter for Nightingale''s to respond directly to the article.

It is a matter for Nightingale''s to respond to the article.

The funding is for the provision of information and training to help carers develop the knowledge and skills that they need to continue caring effectively, while looking after their own health. Boards must have regard to minimum standards set out in guidance. Reports from health boards on progress in 2008-09 are being considered with a view to holding a good practice/learning event in early 2010.

We have encouraged health boards to post their original Carer Information Strategy plans, as approved, on their websites.

In relation to future single outcome agreements, it is a matter for each community planning partnership to derive its local outcomes from a profile of the social, economic and environmental conditions of the area.

Moreover, the Carers Strategy for Scotland, to be published in the first half of 2010, is being developed in partnership with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA).