BACKGROUND
A vital part of Ontario’s health care system, Ornge provides high quality air ambulance service and medical transport to people who are critically ill or injured. In the air and on the ground, our job is to be there for patients, providing safe and timely care, transport and access to health services they need.
Established in 2006 as a not-for-profit charitable organization, Ornge has roughly 733 employees, including paramedics, pilots, communications officers, physicians, aircraft maintenance engineers, along with a team of educators, researchers and support staff.
Ornge’s core business is providing timely patient transportation involving range of paramedical services, by air, and by land, including:
- Emergent and urgent interfacility transport
- Emergent scene response;
- Repatriation of interfacility patients;
- Non-urgent transport based on geographic, and population needs;
- Support for healthcare in remote communities through new and innovative approaches;
- Provincial Transfer Authorization Centre (PTAC) authorization in support of public health objective; and
- Transportation related to organ transplant under contract with the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), Ontario’s organ and tissue donation agency.
Ornge owns and operates a fleet of fixed and rotor wing aircraft, including Leonardo AW139 helicopters, Pilatus PC-12 airplanes, and Crestline land ambulances. Service coverage extends over more than a million square kilometres into remote communities in Ontario. In total, more than 20,000 patient-related transports are performed each year.
Please visit our website at www.ornge.ca for additional information about the organization.
Ornge requires the services of a qualified service provider to conduct five reviews as described below. Ornge expects one vendor to conduct or lead all five reviews. The assignment will start with Reviews 1 and 2 (Federal Pay Equity and Compensation System Review and Implementation). Once complete, Ornge will decide if it wishes to proceed with the other three reviews. Ornge may choose to implement one, two or all three of the reviews listed below (Compensation System Training and Templates, Provincial Pay Equity and Executive Compensation) or a portion of these reviews as described below.