Bridgepoint Health awarded tender for Bidadari clinic with $18,000 rental, with quality evaluated
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It is the first tender awarded under a pilot Price-Quality Method (PQM) for GP clinics, which evaluates tenders based on both price and quality factors.
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SINGAPORE - Bridgepoint Health has been awarded the tender for a general practitioner (GP) clinic at the newly completed Bartley Beacon, a Build-To-Order (BTO) project in Bidadari.
It is the first tender awarded under a pilot Price-Quality Method (PQM) for GP clinics, which evaluates tenders based on both price and quality factors, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Housing & Development Board (HDB) said in a joint statement on Aug 1.
The awarded monthly rent is $18,000 for the clinic space of about 100 sq m, which is twice the size of a typical clinic.
The cost per square metre is $180, less than half the average awarded bid of $382 per sq m for GP clinic tenders in new housing projects in the last three years, said MOH and HDB.
It is much lower than that for a GP clinic in Tampines
The tender evaluation for this GP clinic in Tampines was based only on rental bids.
After the news about the Tampines clinic broke, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung expressed his dismay at the bid
He also noted that higher rental bids do not necessarily translate to the best healthcare that the community needs.
Under the pilot PQM, the tender price – or the rental bid – accounted for 30 per cent of the scoring criteria, and was evaluated by HDB. The quality of the tender proposal accounted for the remaining 70 per cent, and was assessed by MOH.
Three more GP clinic tenders are to be launched under the pilot PQM framework in 2025.
The next PQM tender will be launched at Costa Grove, a BTO project in Pasir Ris. Another two PQM tenders, at Parc Point and Toh Guan Grove, will be launched by the end of 2025.
For the Bartley Beacon space, a total of 18 bids were received for the tender that opened on May 8, 2025, and closed on May 29.
Bridgepoint Health’s care teams consist of family physicians, administrators, other health professionals, and specialists. It works with Northeast Medical Group, with a total of 20 clinics planned and in operation islandwide.
Bridgepoint Health will have to be onboarded by Healthier SG as part of the Primary Care Network, and will have to be Community Health Assist Scheme (Chas) accredited. Additionally, the clinic will have to refrain from providing aesthetic services and instead focus solely on providing primary care services, said MOH and HDB.
The clinic will also be able to provide basic ancillary services such as diabetic retinal photography (DRP), diabetic foot screening (DFS), and nurse counselling for diabetic patients.
It will remain part of the Mental Health General Practitioner Partnership (MHGPP) and manage patients with more complex mental health conditions, while offering most of its services onsite to reduce the need for referrals.
To help tenants of newly constructed shops in new estates, HDB has a staggered rent structure in place over the first three-year tenancy term, said the statement.
Tenants will be required to pay 80 per cent of tendered rent in the first year, 90 per cent in the second year, and the full tendered rent in the third year.
