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EllisDon awarded $260-million contract for outpatient centre in Bayers Lake

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HALIFAX – EllisDon construction company has been awarded a $259.4-million contract to design, build, finance and maintain an outpatient centre on the outskirts of Halifax.

The outpatient centre will be built in Bayers Lake and is part of the $2-billion redevelopment of the QEII Health Sciences Centre.

Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines said Friday in a news release EllisDon beat out two other proposals and is an experienced company that will deliver the outpatient centre “on time and on budget.”

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Construction is scheduled to start this fall and is expected to be completed in August 2023.

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The government says patients living in rural communities and outside Halifax’s downtown core will be the facility’s primary users.

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It will offer services that do not require a hospital setting such as initial visits with specialists, post-surgery or post-treatment follow-up, blood collection and X-rays.

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