Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the public hospital sites now involved in the proposed private hospital co-location scheme; the position regarding tenders at each site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37998/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Health Services Executive is currently undertaking a procurement process to select a consortium to build and operate private hospitals at each of the following 10 public hospitals:

Limerick Regional

Waterford Regional

Cork University Hospital

St. James' Hospital

Beaumont Hospital

Connolly Hospital (Blanchardstown)

Adelaide & Meath Hospital Incorporating the National Children's Hospital (Tallaght)

Sligo General

University College Hospital, Galway

Letterkenny General.

The new private hospitals will be procured by utilising the competitive dialogue tendering process. It involves a three stage process namely:

1. pre-qualification;

2. competitive dialogue phases within which solutions are identified and discussed

3. a final tendering stage.

The HSE received a large number of expressions of interest and pre-qualified a number of successful candidates to progress to the next stage. Outline proposals have been received from pre-qualified candidates and the HSE is currently evaluating these proposals under the competitive dialogue phase.

The intention is to invite up to 3 candidates per site to continue in competitive dialogue. At the end of the competitive dialogue short-listed bidders will be invited to the final tendering stage. The intention is to select a consortium for each site, negotiate the detailed contracts and sign the contracts by the first quarter of 2007.