The New Queensland Cancer Centre will be based within the Herston Health Precinct at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
The project aims to deliver 150 beds with medical oncology, radiation oncology, and allied health services provided. The Centre will be one of only two facilities in Australia to offer proton beam therapy, a specialised form of radiation therapy.
Key Dates
| Jun 2022 | Project Announcement |
| Oct 2022 | EOIs Open |
| Nov 2022 | EOIs Close |
| Dec 2023 | Contract Award |
| 2031 | Expected Construction Completion |
Funding contributions
| Federal Government | |
| Queensland Government |
Procurement
| Procuring Agency: | Queensland Health |
| Successful Tenderer: | Lendlease - Preferred contractor |
| Procurement note: | The project is being procured as a part of the Queensland Government's Capacity Expansion Project (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 phase for particular projects, or packages of projects. The Project will be delivered under a two-stage Managing Contractor model, with Stage One including design works and Stage Two including a separate main works delivery contract. |
PROJECT HISTORY
| Jun 2022 | The Queensland Government made a pre-Budget announcement detailing the project's scope and location. |
| Jun 2022 | The project was confirmed as having been funded through the Capacity expansion Program. |
| Oct 2022 | Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to join the prequalified panel that will deliver Capacity Expansion Program projects was released. |
| Dec 2023 | The Queensland Government announced an increased cost for the project, with the Federal Government committing $375 million on top of the Queensland Government's $750 million. The Queensland Government announced Lendlease as the preferred contractor for the project, with the next stage being to progress design of the project. The Federal Government announced an additional $375 million in funding for the projects, increasing the scope of the project from 91 beds to 150 beds. |
| 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 Review recommended pausing early site works and engaging with the Stage One contractor - Lendlease - to review the project. In response, the Government accepted the recommendation and committed to further design review and potential rescoping as outlined in the Rescue Plan. The Review also confirmed the project's total estimated cost, as originally scoped, has increased from $1.2 billion to $1.8 billion, however, this is subject to change through the re-planning process. The estimated completion date was also delayed from the first half of 2028 to February 2031 at the earliest. |
