Plans for relocated facility due to be submitted later this autumn
Three firms are believed to be preparing bids to build the new 拢250m Moorfields Eye Hospital in north London.
黑洞社区 understands Mace, Bouygues 鈥� which in recently filed results returned to the black last year with a pre-tax profit of 拢2.6m on turnover down 12% to 拢400m 鈥� and ISG are all running the rule over the job which is planned for the St Pancras Hospital site in Camden.
All three have considerable hospital experience to fall back on with Mace carrying out work to improve the estate of UCLH over the past decade while this summer Bouygues, which has specialised in health work since setting up a base in the UK more than two decades ago, won a 拢250m deal to expand the Evelina London children鈥檚 hospital.
ISG has carried out work at a string of hospitals including the Royal Free in London and the Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield.
The new Moorfields development, called Oriel, is a joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (IoO) and the Moorfields Eye Charity.
It will see Moorfields and UCL IoO services move from City Road in Islington to a purpose-built centre in Camden鈥檚 Knowledge Quarter.
The design team is made up of Aecom with Penoyre & Prasad, now owned by Perkins and Will, and White Arkitekter.
The team was appointed in January last year following a RIBA competition. Teams led by RSHP, Bennetts and Hopkins were among those to miss out.
A planning application is due to be submitted to Camden council later this autumn.
If planning permission is approved, the new centre could be open to patients in 2025/26.
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