{"id":38074,"date":"2025-08-01T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38074\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:26:15","slug":"clinic-gets-bidadari-space-at-s18000-a-month-under-new-tender-scheme-factoring-in-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38074\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic gets Bidadari space at S$18,000 a month under new tender scheme factoring in quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Housing &amp; Development Board (HDB) have awarded the first tender under a new approach for general practitioner (GP) clinics at a new public housing project in\u00a0Bidadari estate.<\/p>\n<p>Under the pilot Price Quality Method (PQM), quality of care accounts for 70 per cent of the tender evaluation, while price plays a factor in the remaining 30 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tender, which opened on May 8 and closed on May 29, was awarded to BridgePoint Health, said MOH and HDB in a joint press release on Friday (Aug 1).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe awarded monthly rent is S$18,000 (US$13,900) for the clinic space of about 100 sq m, which is twice the size of a typical clinic,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen bids were received for the tender at Bartley Beacon, a Build-To-Order (BTO) project which was completed in July.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Ong Ye Kung spoke about the new tender approach in June when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/ong-ye-kung-dismayed-tampines-clinic-rent-bid-5166011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed\u00a0dismay<\/a> at a healthcare company&#8217;s S$52,188 monthly rental bid for a clinic in a HDB estate in Tampines.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ong said in a Facebook post then that higher rental bids do not necessarily translate to the best healthcare that the community needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this Price-Quality evaluation Model (PQM), we can shift the competitive focus away from rental rates, to better care models, including preventive care, chronic disease management and mental health,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The awarded monthly rent for the tender at Bartley Beacon works out to S$180 per sq m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is lower than the average awarded bid of S$382 per sq m for GP clinic tenders in new housing projects awarded from 2022 to 2024, said MOH and HDB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn comparison, the unusually high tendered rent for the recent clinic in Tampines GreenGem was about S$1,000 per sq m,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Housing &amp; Development Board (HDB) have awarded the first tender under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,34248,137,500,34247,8950],"class_list":["post-38074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general-practitioners","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-housing-and-development-board","tag-ministry-of-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}