Hospital bids reviewed.

• Position: SPECIAL REPORT: CONSTRUCTION

Three bid teams are eligible to submit a proposal to build, finance and maintain Sault Ste. Marie's new hospital.

A Request for Qualifications issued by the provincial government in April has identified the project teams with the required project development, construction, operational and financial capacity to carry out building the 289-bed facility.

Contractor EllisDon Corporation and engineers Carillion Canada are part of a bidding group known as Hospital Infrastructure Partners. Deutsche Bank AG and PCL Constructors head up Plenary Health. SNC-Lavalin and Bondfield Construction have teamed up as the third bidding team.

The project...