To procure through a non-profit distributing model (NPD) the delivery of, including the design, construction, financing and/or the provision of certain non-clinical management services, a new facility for a combined stand-alone Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (DCN). The Project will also include: the delivery of a dedicated energy centre to service the facility; interface enabling works; installation and commissioning of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure; supply, installation and maintenance of other associated works. The Project will include some elements of equipment, excluding specialist medical. The facility is to be delivered at the Little France Site, next to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (an existing PFI site). The precise scope of services will be set out in the Information Memorandum and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire document which is available to suppliers registering their interest in this notice on the Public Contracts Scotland web site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk. The Scottish Government, through the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, has confirmed the terms under which it is prepared to provide financial support to the Board in relation to the Project and the Board is confident and content that these terms can be satisfied. The Board reserves the right to consider alternative financing, funding and/or contractual arrangements to support the delivery of this Project (including, without limitation, capital injections, by the Board).

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