Elderly homes: five new contracts up to 17% more expensive

These projects have been the subject of first calls for tenders canceled in recent months.

SQI bet on getting better prices, but it’s quite the opposite, as a recent Radio-Canada review showed.

SQI then said it was juggling various options in the face of the price increase submitted in the second call for tenders.

When SQI considers that the price submitted is not the correct price, it gives itself the possibility to cancel the call for tenders, change the supply strategy, combine several lots or separate them, depending in context said his spokesman Martin Roy.

Although the practice of re -launching calls for tenders has regularly yielded good results in the past, the current context has not yet done so, it does not guarantee any certainty of getting better results.written by Mr. Roy.

At Granby, for example, the amount awarded would be $ 36.4 million, or 17% more than the minimum amount on the first call for tenders. Six companies submitted an offer, including one over $ 43 million. Two companies participated in the first canceled tender.

Many of these contracts will have a clause that adjusts the price of certain materials and equipment according to established procedures […] thus being able to vary the contract value up or downsay public documents.

It should be noted that at Baie-Comeau on the North Shore, an initial call for tenders did not generate bids. This time, three contractors participated in the second tender and the contract will amount to 41.5 million dollars for 48 areas.

In the March 2022 budget documents, the Treasury Board specified that 2,600 places would be delivered to seniors ’homes by September 2022.

Since CAQ took over in October 2018, the number of people waiting for a place in a CHSLD has increased by 40%. There are now 3,864 people waiting across Quebec, or 1,098 more than four years ago.