Govt invites bids for constructing 6 AIIMS-like institutions

New Delhi, Oct 30 : The Centre has invited bids for the construction of six AIIMS-like institutions at an estimated cost of Rs 820 crore per institution meant to correct regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also to augment facilities for quality medical education and research in the country.

Under the Ist phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, these AIIMS-like institutions are being set up, one each in Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Orissa (Bhubaneshwar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur) and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh). Each of these institution will have a 960 bedded hospital, of which 500 beds will be for the medical college hospital; 300 beds for Specialty/Super Speciality departments and 100 beds for ICU/Accident and trauma.

In addition, 30 beds for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PMR) and 30 beds for Ayush have been kept.

Tenders/NITs are being issued on November 2 for preparing all detailed engineering drawings. Pre-bid Conference is scheduled for November 16 while the last date of receipt of bids would be December 3, an official release said here today.

Environmental clearance has been obtained for five out of six sites and is being obtained for the remaining site (Bhopal). These Medical College Complex will be built in 15 months' time while the Hospital-OPD complex is to be built in 24 months.

Apart from ensuring timely payment, there are very strong incentive clauses for early completion with a bonus of one per cent of the tendered value per month computed on per day basis, subject to the maximum of five per cent. Likewise, there is a strong disincentive clause/penalty if the project is delayed, a Health Ministry release said.

These hospitals would be full fledged multi-disciplinary healthcare institution offering facilities in 42 speciality/super-speciality disciplines.

Medical College will have an annual intake of 100 UG intake besides imparting PG/doctoral courses in various disciplines. Nursing College will also have 100 UG intake and 25 PG intake annually.

The respective State Governments have provided 100 acre land free of cost. The Health Ministry has engaged eminent architectural firms to prepare the designs and drawings. The architectural/DPR Consultants were selected on global competitive basis.

The Project Consultants have also been selected for each site on the basis of open competitive bids. Project Cell at the sites comprising engineering, finance and administrative set up has been constituted and posts are being filled up on deputation basis from other Central Govt/State Govt organisations.

The construction work has been split into seven different packages, depending on the functional/sequential requirement and core specialisation needs. Tenders/NITs for the main civil packages viz civil works for Medical College, Nursing College, AYUSH and Hostels, (Patna, Raipur, Bhopal) and civil works for Hospitals-OPD Complex, including all internal services and specialised works are being invited.

The total cost of these two packages is between Rs 250 to 300 crore for each site, totaling Rs 1,908 crore for all six sites, it added.

--UNI

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