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Tender awarded for site in Wong Chuk Hang for private hospital development
The Food and Health Bureau announced today (March 13) that the tender
for a site at Wong Chuk Hang has been awarded through an open tender
exercise to GHK Hospital Limited for developing a private hospital.
A spokesman for the Food and Health Bureau said, "The health-care
system of Hong Kong runs on a dual-track basis encompassing both
public and private elements. We will continue to maintain this
dual-track system, which has served us well, and ensure that it can
develop in a balanced and sustainable manner. The private health-care
sector is an integral part of the dual-track system. One of our
health-care reform initiatives is to promote and facilitate private
health-care development. This will help redress the imbalance between
the public and private sectors in hospital services, and increase the
overall capacity of the health-care system in Hong Kong to cope with
the rising service demand."
To facilitate private hospital development, the Government put out two
sites reserved for this purpose for open tender from April to July
last year. The two sites are at Wong Chuk Hang (Aberdeen Inland Lot
No. 458) and Tai Po (Tai Po Town Lot No. 207).
The spokesman said, "We have received tenders for both sites. The
Assessment Panel set up by the Food and Health Bureau has completed
the assessment of all the tender submissions based on the marking
scheme published in the tender documents in accordance with the
established government procurement and tendering procedures."
Regarding the Wong Chuk Hang site, the Government received three
tender submissions. After detailed assessment by the Assessment Panel,
the tender submission from GHK Hospital Limited obtained the highest
combined score for its service provision proposal and land premium
offer and was recommended for acceptance. The Central Tender Board
approved the acceptance of the tender after scrutiny of the report
submitted by the Assessment Panel. The land premium offered by the
company is $1.688 billion.
The Government has entered into the Agreement and Conditions of Sale
(Land Grant) as well as the Service Deed with GHK Hospital Limited
today. The shareholders of this company are Singapore's Parkway Pantai
Limited and Hong Kong-listed NWS Holdings Limited, whereas the Li Ka
Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is its
collaborating partner. Parkway Pantai Limited has experience in
undertaking private health-care operations and developments in many
regions in Asia. NWS Holdings Limited is an infrastructure and service
enterprise with experience in public and private hospital construction
projects in Hong Kong.
"We believe that the rich experience of the successful tenderer, GHK
Hospital Limited, and its professional team will be put to full use in
the development of the new private hospital. We expect that, upon
completion of the new hospital, the overall capacity of the
health-care system in Hong Kong will be increased, enabling the public
to have more choices for affordable and quality private hospital
services. It will also help address the increasing demand for
health-care services and alleviate the imbalance between the public
and private sectors in hospital services in Hong Kong," the spokesman
added.
According to the terms of the deeds signed, GHK Hospital Limited will
have to provide services in the new private hospital as follows:
* The hospital will commence operation within 46 months (i.e. by
January 2017);
* 500 hospital beds will be provided;
* 92 per cent of the total gross floor area of the hospital will be
used for clinical services;
* In addition to services in general medicine, general surgery,
orthopaedics and traumatology, and gynaecology, services in 11 other
specialties will also be provided;
* The number of obstetric beds will be capped at no more than 3.2 per
cent of the total number of beds in the hospital (i.e. 16 beds);
* At least 70 per cent of in-patient bed days taken up in a year will
be used for provision of services to local residents;
* At least 51 per cent of in-patient bed days taken up in a year will
be used for provision of services to local residents at packaged
charge through standard beds;
* Comprehensive charging information of its services will be made
available to the public; and
* The hospital will endeavour to participate in hospital assessment
and attain accreditation within 36 months from the commencement of
operation of the hospital.
As for the Tai Po site, the Government received one tender submission,
which, however, failed to fully meet the mandatory requirements set
out in the tender documents. Therefore, the Assessment Panel
recommended that the tender for this site be cancelled pursuant to the
Government's Stores and Procurement Regulations. After scrutiny of the
report submitted by the Assessment Panel, the Central Tender Board
also agreed to the recommendation.
The Government adopted a two-envelope approach in the tender exercise.
Bidders were required to submit their service provision proposals and
land premium offers concurrently according to the requirements set out
in the tender documents. In assessing the tenders, the weightings
given to the service provision proposal and the land premium offer
were 70 per cent and 30 per cent respectively. The service provision
proposal submitted had to meet the relevant special requirements.
The spokesman said, "This tender exercise is a new attempt. Through
including various special requirements, it ensures that the private
hospital will accord service priority to local residents, adopt a
transparent fee-charging system and provide various specialty services
so as to address local health-care demand.
"Overall, this tender exercise has reflected the market's interests in
private hospital development. We will examine the experience gained
from this exercise, review the market response and assess the needs of
the community in formulating the way forward for the future
development of private hospitals and the disposal arrangements for the
other three reserved sites."
Ends/Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Issued at HKT 17:42
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