We are going to be putting an RFP out for medevac services. This spring we are starting the evaluation of the service that we currently have. The detailed information we get from the current medevac services is going to give us the information that we need to draft an RFP that’s going to be able to provide the best service to the patients possible. The RFP would not indicate that we need a decentralized model, that you have to have a plane in Norman Wells or you have to have a plane in Inuvik. It’s not going to request that kind of detail. It’s going to request that the best service possible be provided within the call for RFP. The companies would then determine whether or not putting a plane in a place like Norman Wells or Inuvik or someplace outside of Yellowknife, assuming they have more than one plane, that if they would put a plane there they would be able to provide the safest, best medical service to patients in the NWT, period. So it would be based on that that we would evaluate the RFP.
There are companies that do believe that something closer to the centre of the Northwest Territories needs to be a plan on the ground. That way you can get into more communities that are further away from Yellowknife a lot quicker. When we look at the RFP we will be thinking that it’s going to provide the best service possible for the patients.