Trillium issues RFP for managed equipment, services

BY JERRY ZEIDENBERG

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. – Trillium Health Partners recently issued an RFP for a Managed Equipment Services (MES) contract for the two new hospital projects currently underway. The final contract– valued at approximately $1 billion – has the potential to become the world’s largest MES agreement.

The winning MES vendor will work with the hospital to provide a range of equipment and services for everything from CT and MRI scanners in DI departments to surgical and cardiac equipment, and more. In return, the vendor will receive a prearranged monthly payment.

“There will be about 9,000 to 10,000 pieces of equipment covered,” said Scott Jarrett, executive vice president of Trillium Health Partners, in Mississauga, Ont.

“That’s a lot of equipment to plan for.”

As such, some of the largest medical equipment providers are expected to respond. The RFP closes early in 2023, and the hospital will evaluate the proposals for much of the year. A winner will be publicly announced in early 2024.

The MES contract will cover equipment and upkeep of the products for two new centres – a 24-floor acute-care hospital with 950 beds, called The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital, which is replacing the current, 60-year-old Mississauga Hospital, as well as Trillium’s upcoming, nine-storey rehab and complex continuing care centre, with 350 beds – the future home of The Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre. These facilities will provide more beds, shorter wait times, and better equipment and technology to support patient care.

Finally, the MES partner will also supply a legacy site, the Credit Valley Hospital, which operates under the Trillium Health Partners umbrella. It’s unusual to have an MES cover a legacy site, Jarrett said, in addition to new centres; as a strategy, it will help

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2