Address: #2 - 4, Tragarete Road, Port of Spain
Status: Ongoing
Client: Ministry of Social Development and Family Services
Project Partners: UDeCOTT
The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services (MSDFS) Head Office Building will provide accommodation to house the growing needs of the Ministry in addition to achieving cost savings from eliminating rental payments. The Ministry will also be able to consolidate some of its satellite units into one central location.
The new Head Office for the MSDFS will comprise 183,080 sq ft. (17,009 sq. m) of office space across ten (10) floors, with an adjacent parking structure amounting to 55000 sq. ft. (5109 sq. m) holding 200 cars and 28341 sq. ft. (2633 sq. m) of site works (including surface parking and landscaping). Both buildings will be reinforced concrete structure and are inclusive of FF+E.
It is proposed that the new Head Office will house the following departments:
- Minister and Minister’s Secretariat
- Permanent Secretary and Secretariat
- Deputy Permanent Secretary
- Chief Technical Officer
- Development Support Unit
- Legal Office
- General Administration
- Information Technology
- Human Resource
- Policy, Programming, Planning & Development Division
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Accounts
- Reconciliation Unit
- Audit
- Corporate, Communication & Education
- Project Implementation Unit
- Library
- Non-Governmental Organization Unit
- Development Support Unit
- Social Investigation Unit
- Procurement Unit
- OJT’s and Associate Professionals
- Citizen’s Engagement Unit
- Investigation & Compliance Unit
- National Social Development Programme
- Social Welfare Division- Central Office
- Facilities Unit
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