The Ipswich Hospital Expansion Stage 2 is expected to deliver:
- 200 new beds
- a new purpose-built acute clinical service building
- a new Emergency Department
- six additional operating theatres
- satellite medical imaging service, and
- a new Central Sterilisation Service Department.
The project is part of Queensland's Capacity Expansion Program.
Key Dates
| Jun 2022 | Project Announcement |
| Oct 2022 | EOIs Open |
| Nov 2022 | EOIs Close |
| May 2023 | Contract Award |
| 2024 | Expected Construction Commencement |
| 2027 | Expected Construction Completion |
Funding contributions
| Queensland Government |
Procurement
| Procuring Agency: | Queensland Health |
| Successful Tenderer: | BESIX Watpac |
| Procurement note: | The project is being procured as a part of the Queensland Government's Capacity Expansion Program (CEP). The CEP will deliver $9.8 billion worth of new and upgraded hospitals across 15 separate projects. CEP projects are being procured using a Pre-Qualified Panel model. Under the model, interested parties submit EOIs outlinining the list of projects or ‘bundles of projects’ they wish to participate in. Contractors successfully appointed to the panel will then be selected to participate in a Request for Tenders (RFT) phase for particular projects, or packages of projects. |
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PROJECT HISTORY
| Jun 2022 | The project was confirmed as having been funded through the Capacity Expansion Program. |
| Oct 2022 | Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to join a prequalified panel to deliver Capacity Expansion Program projects was released. |
| May 2023 | The Queensland Government awarded the contract to deliver the project to BESIX Watpac under a Managing Contractor model. |
| Oct 2023 | Turner & Townsend was awarded the Project Management contract for the project. |
| Sep 2024 | The project cost has increased from $710 million to $1.1 billion following the design phase due to scope modifications, cost escalations and to account for complexity. The Government has stated the cost increases will be covered through the existing $11.2 billion Program allocation. This includes an additional $1 billion in "equity funding" allocated to the Program in the 2024-25 Queensland Budget. |
Estimated Total Cost
(2024)
Sector
Social
Procurement approach
Traditional Procurement |
Location
Queensland |
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