Plans to build the Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex took another step forward today as Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services released a request for proposals (RFP) to design, build, finance and maintain the new facility. The Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex will be located at the government's Downsview Complex in Toronto, subject to final planning approvals.
The new Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex will accommodate increased capacity for autopsies and forensic science cases. The combined facility will make collaboration between the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Centre of Forensic Sciences easier.
In addition, housing the two operations on one site will help the government realise efficiencies during construction and through shared services once the complex opens.
The three building teams short-listed to design, build, finance and maintain the new Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex are:
- Carillion Secure Solution
- Carillion Canada Inc.
- Stantec Architecture, Ltd.;
- McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie Inc.;
- Vanbots, a division of Carillion Construction Inc.;
- The State Group Inc.;
- The Univex Group of Companies; and
- BMO Capital Markets
- Integrated Team Solutions (ITS)
- EllisDon Corporation;
- Honeywell Limited (Canada);
- Parkin Architects Limited and Smith Carter Architecture and Engineers Incorporated (JV);
- Halsall Associates;
- Smith and Andersen Consulting Engineering;
- Crossey Engineering Ltd.;
- Geo A. Kelson Company Limited;
- Black & McDonald Limited;
- EllisDon Constructions;
- LPF Infrastructure Fund / Fengate Capital; and
- Scotia Capital
- Justice Infrastructure Partnership (JIP)
- Bilfinger Berger;
- Perkins Eastman Black + Bregman Hamann Architects (JV);
- SNC Lavalin Inc. + Bondfield Construction Company Limited (JV);
- Hidi Rae Consulting + Crime Lab Design;
- Jones Lang LaSalle + HSG Zander (a subsidiary of Bilfinger) (JV); and
- Bilfinger Berger Project Investments Inc.
“We are moving forward to create a modern, technologically advanced facility that will keep pace with the increasingly complex demands of the justice sector,” said Rick Bartolucci, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. “This project is also a sign of the government's commitment to investing in infrastructure in our community, creating jobs and spurring economic development.”
Once submissions to the RFP are received and reviewed, a winning team is expected to be selected and announced in early 2010; construction is expected to begin shortly after. A copy of the RFP is available on Infrastructure Ontario's website at www.infrastructureontario.ca
Infrastructure Ontario is working with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services to develop the facility. Infrastructure Ontario is a Crown corporation dedicated to managing some of the province's larger and more complex infrastructure renewal projects - ensuring they are built on time and on budget.
Visit www.infrastructureontario.ca for more information.
Contacts:
Terence Foran
Infrastructure Ontario
416-325-2939
Tony Brown
Communications Branch
Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
416-314-7772
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