Infrastructure Ontario (IO) has issued a formal request for proposals to select a new project management service provider for the province’s real estate portfolio.

The agency is fully responsible for Ontario’s General Real Estate Portfolio, which comprises 4,300 buildings and 150,000 acres of land in more than 360 municipalities across the province.

The agency’s project management service provider program involves managing a variety of capital repair and ministry-funded projects across the portfolio with a value of up to $20 million. The contract will include program management, project delivery, corporate support, and provision of technical services. 

The new service provider will deliver high-complexity projects from inception through to final completion, including design, construction and commissioning, using a predominantly design-bid-build contract model for designers and contractors.

The new service provider is expected to start service delivery in spring 2024.

IO currently has two service providers. Its contracts with those companies expire on March 31, 2024.