Health New Zealand

Front of Whare - Relocation & Expansion Te Pae Tiaki Emergency Department - Old Children’s Package

This Request for Tenders (RFT) is an invitation to submit a Tender for an Early Contractor Involvement Process - Front of Whare - Old Children’s Hospital Package contract opportunity for HNZ Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley District.

The Front of Whare (FoW) project is a multi-phased, critical project designed to address current issues with the existing Emergency department (ED) at Wellington Hospital.

The current FoW planning proposes a number of rapid, concurrent projects which enable the refurbishment of existing spaces with the W01 building as the new ED. The new ED is to be located on the ground floor of the WO1 building which presently occupied by the Clinical Measurement Unit, Medical Assessment and Planning Unit, Security Orderlies and other services. In order to facilitate the objective of relocating the ED to the W01 building a series of enabling projects are planned, one of which is the refurbishment of the Old Children’s Hospital, to enable decanting of existing hospital functions with WO1 to other buildings within the Wellington hospital campus.

The delivery of the Old Children’s refurbishment is programme critical to enable the timely commencement of follow on projects. As such, the intent is to engage with a main contractor early in the project programme ,and foster a collaborative problem-solving culture, in order to resolve key constructability and programme challenges, by means of entering into an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) agreement.