Specialist Hospital Relocation Planning and Patient Transfer Coordination Services for Transition to the New Children’s Hospital

Published

10 February 2026

Place of performance

IE061

Procedure

neg-wo-call

Lots

1

Notice number

00094026-2026

Reference

ad12278c-31f5-428d-981d-269af28c369c

Official source

Official source

CPV codes

• 98392000Servicios de traslado

Description

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) intends to award a contract for the provision of specialist hospital relocation planning and patient transfer coordination services, to support the consolidation of paediatric services from its existing acute sites in Dublin (Crumlin, Temple Street, and paediatric services at Tallaght) into the new purpose‑built Children’s Hospital located on the St. James’s campus. The services include detailed patient transfer planning, transfer protocols, risk mitigation strategies, transport logistics, mock transfer exercises, and full transfer‑day coordination. The relocation of multiple live paediatric acute hospitals into a single large scale national children’s hospital is unprecedented in Ireland and presents significant clinical, logistical, and operational risk. The transition to the new children’s hospital involves critical, time dependent, safety sensitive operations where failure or disruption may impact patient care and national paediatric acute services. Due to the significant operational and clinical risk, CHI requires a provider with a demonstrated track record of delivering similar complex transitions with zero service downtime and assured continu…

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Who is the buyer of this tender?

The contracting authority is Children's Health Ireland (CHI) (European Union).