Infrastructure Ontario and Stevenson Memorial Hospital have issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for teams to deliver the Stevenson Memorial Hospital (SMH) Redevelopment Project.

Located in New Tecumseth, the redevelopment project will increase bed capacity at the hospital by 20% and will triple the square footage of the existing hospital.

At approximately 146,200 square feet, the newly designed wrap-around expansion of the hospital will include a replacement and expansion of the existing hospital’s acute care areas and associated support functions.

In January 2023, the hospital announced that it had retained Toronto architects Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning to design Phase 1 of the project.

SMH’s 58-year-old facility was built to manage 7,000 emergency department visits annually. It and now sees almost 40,000. New Tecumseth is the seventh fastest growing municipality in Canada with a 28% in population since 2016.

SMH has not undergone a redevelopment since the current facility’s inception in 1964 and needs this expansion to serve the growing community today and future generations.

IO and SMH will review submissions during the RFQ process to shortlist teams with the required construction experience, as well as the financial capacity to deliver a project of this size and complexity.

Shortlisted teams will then be invited to respond to a request for proposals, which is expected to be published in early 2025.

The project is being delivered using a design-bid-build model. The RFQ is to select a contractor to deliver the project based on these designs.