Bendigo Health Care Group (BHCG) is seeking quotations for the provision of function catering services on a non-exclusive basis for a period of one year with a one year option.

During the past twelve months approximately 1,500 catering services have been provided to BHCG sites located in Bendigo.

About Bendigo Health:
With over 3,600 staff and covering an area a quarter the size of Victoria, BHCG is a 653 bed service that annually:
Treats over 42,000 in-patients;
Admits more than 1700 children aged under 16 years to our Child and Adolescent Unit;
Deals with over 50,000 emergency attendances, including almost 11,000 ambulance arrivals to the Emergency Department;
Delivers more than 1,300 babies;
Conducts almost 82,000 outpatient appointments.

These services are complemented by a 60-bed rehabilitation unit, ten bed critical care unit and five operating theatres where more than 12,500 surgical procedures are performed annually.

The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women's health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice, palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.

The three main campuses of BHCG are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine. Demand on services is increasing rapidly with Bendigo being one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities. BHCG and the Victorian Government are committed to delivering high quality health-care to the community of Bendigo and the greater Loddon Mallee region, with a substantial investment to deliver a new Bendigo hospital scheduled to open in early 2017.

When the new hospital opens in early 2017, it will progressively increase the operational capacity to include:
372 inpatient beds;
72 same-day acute beds:
An 80 bed integrated psychiatric inpatient unit, including a five bed mother and baby unit
11 Operating theatres;
A Regional Integrated Cancer Centre.