The Princess Alexandra Hospital Expansion will include 219 new acute inpatient and 30 new ICU beds, 13 new cancer treatment bays and reconfigured specialist treatment spaces, with a proposed five-storey expansion of the Emergency Department Building to accomodate the changes.
The project is part of Queensland's Capital Expansion Program.
Key Dates
| Jun 2022 | Project Announcement |
| Oct 2022 | EOIs Open |
| Nov 2022 | EOIs Close |
| May 2023 | Contract Award |
| 2028 | Expected Construction Completion |
Funding contributions
| Queensland Government |
Procurement
| Procuring Agency: | Queensland Health |
| Successful Tenderer: | John Holland |
| 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. The contract is being delivered through a Managing Contractor model, where John Holland will be required to deliver designs for the project by mid-2024 and must deliver a ‘value for money guaranteed construction price’, for the project prior to the main works construction phase. Detailed project scopes will be announced following completion of detailed designs next year. |
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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 managing contractor contract to deliver the project to John Holland. |
| Oct 2023 | Turner & Townsend was awarded the Cost Management contract for the project. |
| Feb 2024 | The Queensland Government released its concept design for the project. |
| Sep 2024 | The project cost has increased from $350 million to $748 million 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. |
| Apr 2025 | The Queensland Government released its Hospital Rescue Plan and response to the 42 recommendations made by the Independent Review of Queensland Health’s Capacity Expansion Program. The Plan states that the six projects awarded Stage Two contracts as part of the two-stage Managing Contractor model by the former Government in late-2024, including the Princess Alexandra Hospital Expansion, will continue as currently contracted. |
