Confirmed: LICH bidding attracts strong interest from full service hospital teams
New RFP has changed the game
Brooklyn community organizations who were petitioners in the Long Island College Hospital (LICH) litigation have confirmed that they met this week with three groups who have presented plans to operate a full-service hospital at the LICH site.
The hospital in Cobble Hill is up for sale by operator SUNY Downstate, which has issued a revised Request for Proposals (RFP) that gives extra points to groups seeking to keep LICH in operation as a full service hospital.
This is a dramatically different outcome than the first round of bidding for LICH, carried out through an RFP process criticized as being secretive and designed to favor developers seeking to turn LICH’s 20 historic structures into residential and commercial development.
The teams must present their formal bids by the March 19 deadline.