The new hospital will be set on an eight-acre site on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and will include approximately 300 single rooms, clinical facilitiesand a research and education institute.
The Bouygues consortium comprises Bouygues UK and Ecovert FM.
Skanska’s group comprises Skanska Infrastructure Investment UK, Skanska ԭ UK, Skanska Facilities Services and OCS.
A third group, Apex Health, failed to make the final cut. This group comprised John Laing Investments, Laing O’Rourke ԭ and Interserve (Facilities Management).
The project team at Papworth Hospital will work with the two consortia to further develop the bids before a preferred bidder is selected. A contract is expected to be signed in late 2012. The construction phase is expected to be complete by late 2015.
Papworth Hospital chief executive Stephen Bridge said: “This is a key milestone in the project to relocate Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust onto the biomedical campus in Cambridge. We are looking forward to working with the two consortia to develop a new hospital which provides the highest quality environment in which to provide the best care for our patients.”