The PPP consortium which built the superhospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) claimed it was owed $360 million, on top of the $1.3 billion it was to be paid under contract. The government announced it reached an out-of-court settlement with the consortium, agreeing to pay it an extra $108 million.
That same day, Quebec declared an even bigger payout, $125 million, to settle a dispute with a different consortium that built the nearly $2-billion CHUM superhospital.
The French government in 2014 resigned itself to paying a large penalty to cancel its PPP contract for Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien after realizing belatedly that it was too expensive.
The $939-million expansion of Sainte-Justine Hospital was not built as a public-private partnership, and instead the government assumed the full risk of all cost overruns. The Montreal Gazette has learned the cost overruns are no more than $9 million,
Read the full report at the Montreal Gazette
In Quebec, the Journal de Montréal reported that the consortium of the McGill Healthcare Infrastructure Group billed the MUHC $409 to replace a soap dispenser.
Read This is crazy – $ 409 to move a soap dispenser
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