The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority (HSA) has opened bidding for a new 6,118-square-foot dental suite at Pasadora Place in George Town, Grand Cayman.
The tender asks a single firm to handle the full design package, covering architecture, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection (MEP&F), plus civil and structural engineering, with cost estimating bolted on.
The Pasadora Dental Clinic will house 11 individual dental surgery suites, geared up for orthodontics, endodontics, maxillofacial treatments, dental implantology and paediatric dentistry.
The site, sitting next door to the Shining Stars Childhood Care and Education Centre, is currently a bare shell. The winning firm will have to turn it into a working clinical space from the ground up.
Each suite has to make room for mobility-impaired patients and allow emergency stretcher access, the HSA said.
The fit-out must also handle advanced kit, including intraoral scanners, surgical motors and digital imaging systems.
A certified healthcare design specialist must lead the project, while the team also has to include a healthcare consultant with at least five years of MEP&F experience.
Track record will count. Top marks go to firms that can point to five or more completed health-sector projects in the past seven years.
The procurement timetable leaves little breathing room. A pre-bid site meeting is locked in for 8 May, submissions are due by 8 June, and the contract is set to be signed on 30 July.
The initial contract runs for four months, with a tentative kick-off on 1 July. Bidders need to prove they can wrap up inside a 10-week window.
Whoever lands the job will need contractor’s all risk insurance worth the contract sum plus 10%, plus CI$1 million each in public liability and employer’s liability cover.
The mix of insurance thresholds and healthcare-specific staffing demands trims the field to firms with both clinical design credentials and the financial backing to take them on.
The HSA has billed the facility as a flagship dental site, pointing to the spread of services planned and the equipment load the building will eventually carry.
