Bridgepoint Health bags Bidadari clinic tender that values quality over price

Bridgepoint Health has been awarded the tender for a general practitioner (GP) clinic at the newly completed Bartley Beacon, a Build-To-Order (BTO) project in Bidadari.

- BNB Diviyadhaarshini

It is the first tender awarded under a pilot Price-Quality Method (PQM) for GP clinics, which evaluates tenders based on both price and quality factors, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Housing Board said in a joint statement on Aug 1.

The awarded monthly rent is $18,000 for the clinic space of about 100 sq m, which is twice the size of a typical clinic.

The cost per square metre is $180, less than half the average awarded bid of $382 per sq m for GP clinic tenders in new housing projects in the last three years, said MOH and HDB.

It is much lower than that for a GP clinic in Tampines, which was reported in June to be $1,003.60 per sq m, at a monthly rental of $52,188 for a 52 sq m ground floor unit.

The tender evaluation for this GP clinic in Tampines was based only on rental bids.