IMSS will transform your Oaxtepec, Atlixco and La Trinidad resorts into shelters and hospital services to care for patients with noncomplicated COVID-19s without risk factors, with mild symptomatology that does not require respiratory assistance, recovering infected that still require nursing care and even asymptomatic that pose a risk to their family.
According to the call for quotation published on April 24 on Compranet by IMSS and from which they would receive proposals until April 30, the chosen suppliers must provide a “comprehensive service”, which will include modification in the infrastructure, diagnosis, development, training, implementation and operation.
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It is the conditioning to the resort of Oaxtepec, Morelos, which has 234 rooms with 478 beds in total; plus 137 cabins or villas and a camping area of 20 thousand square meters.
Also from the center of Atlixco-Metepec, in Puebla, with 179 hotel rooms, with 418 beds and 9 villas. And the center La Trinidad, in Tlaxcala, with 112 rooms with 342 beds, an executive house with 11 beds and 6 thousand square meters of camp area.
This adds up to the existence of 535 hotel rooms and 1,238 beds in the three resorts, whose tourist service was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic since 23 March.
The resort of Morelos has 234 rooms with 478 beds in total; plus 137 cottages or villas. Photo: IMSS
These are part of the facilities of the four IMSS resorts that serves every public with cabins, hotels, swimming pools, camp, sports centres, shopping facilities and restaurants, with accessible quotas open to all public, and, for the first time, three will function as hospitals.
On Compranet, the platform where all government procurements are recorded, only the request for quotation is available, for “contracting the comprehensive services for the conversion of IMSS resorts to Covid-19 care centers”, but the dates to participate in the tender are not detailed, the announcement of winners, although the validity of the contract will be until December 31, 2020.
Conversion
In the document, THE IMSS sets out the requirements that suppliers must meet, since it will have to work “in a coordinated manner with the Institute to carry out the conversion, implementation and operation of three resorts”.
The supplier(s) that obtain the contract will review the conversion criteria, which involves evaluating the architectural, engineering and equipment criteria for the provision of hospital services for COVID-19 patients, and it will be “the bidder’s responsibility to review and validate the criteria that are defined to achieve the provision of the services defined for the new care facility”.
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It will also be responsible for defining “the functional model of care and the functional structure for the provision of clinical services, profiles, doctors and nurses”; and non-clinical support processes such as cleaning, waste management, rope storage, facility maintenance, food, safety and warehouse.
Therefore, IMSS requires the provider to design a training programme for the provision of general services in which the description of the new processes of the desired services will be included, the general mapping of the current situation. Management and administration activities that will be required by the management staff of the current resorts will also be defined.
There should also be monitoring and monitoring of these services, so “weekly visits will be held during the start-up to ensure that the new procedures described in the quick guides are followed. Continuous virtual support will also be available to verify the correct understanding of the processes described.”
For the operation there must be a “Guide with the guidelines for the Reconversion of Holiday Centers (Hotels), in Hostels or Hospital Services COVID-19”, which will contain all the criteria and minimum guidelines required for the conversion, “to be taken into account by any public or private institution for in the shortest possible time to carry out the necessary conversions in the face of scenarios of saturation of health services”.
Political Animal requested information from IMSS regarding the project’s expected budget and the completion date, but there were no responses.
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