Published on 29 June 2023

The Victorian Government has announced the two shortlisted consortia that have been invited to develop proposals to design, construct, finance and maintain the new Melton Hospital.

The shortlisted consortia are:

  • Exemplar Health, comprising Capella Capital, Lendlease, Honeywell and Compass Group
  • Wilam Marrga, comprising Tetris Capital, John Holland, ISS and Cushman & Wakefield.

The shortlisting follows a comprehensive Expression of Interest process that attracted interest from some of Australia’s top construction firms.

The new hospital will be delivered as a Public Private Partnership, the same model used to build the new Footscray Hospital which is currently under construction. Melton Hospital will include an emergency department, general medical/surgical inpatient units, ICU, maternity, operating theatres, birthing, a special care nursery, mental health, pharmacy, radiology, at-home services, outpatient care and other services.

Once completed, the new hospital will have capacity to treat 130,000 patients each year and see almost 60,000 patients in the emergency department. It will be designed in a way to allow for future expansion to ensure it can grow with the community.

The project is being delivered by the Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA), in partnership with Western Health, who will operate the hospital upon completion.

Community feedback will help shape the development of the new hospital, with input from online surveys, information sessions and targeted workshops with key community groups. In the first half of this year, Western Health’s New Melton Hospital project team, led by Acting Project Director Mel Shackell, has run extensive user group consultation with clinical and non-clinical staff to inform the development of the functional design brief and other documents that make up the Request for Proposal (RFP). The RFP was issued to Exemplar Health and Wilam Marrga on 28 June, which marks the commencement of the next exciting phase of the project.

A final consortium is expected to be selected next year with design development and construction to begin shortly after.