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- Bid Express service brochure (for agencies)
- Bid Express service executive overview (for agencies)
- Bid Express service brochure (for bidders)
- Small Business Network information (for agencies)
- Small Business Network information (for prime contractors)
- Small Business Network information (for subcontractors)
- Purdue University ECT Fact Sheet
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Bid Express service
The future of project bidding has arrived. Internet bidding has never been this easy or secure for both the agency and the bidder.
The Bid Express bidding service frees you from the exhausting paper bidding process and lets you focus your time and money on more important things. The service works in conjunction with Expedite bidding software, which is used by bidders and agencies for bid creation, submission and processing.
The Bid Express service is available to agencies of all sizes – from national, state and provincial agencies, to city and county governments. Agencies of all sizes can benefit from online bidding. The Bid Express service interfaces with premier management applications, including AASHTO Trns•port software and the Appia construction management solution.
The Bid Express service allows the agency to:
- Receive sealed, secure, digitally signed bids
- Receive bid bond verification electronically
- Instantly communicate with your bidding community
- Immediately distribute updated bid data
- Significantly reduce bid management duties and bid processing times
- Broaden your bidding audience
- Eliminate redundant data entry and careless errors
- Interface with Appia software for easy integration of capital improvement program management and Internet bidding
- Offer plan sheets and bid related documents online
- Publish bid tab data
- Implement the Small Business Network to improve communications between primes and DBEs
The Bid Express service allows the bidder to:
- Submit sealed, secure, digitally-signed bids
- Electronically verify bid bonds
- Eliminate bidding-related travel and accommodations
- Eliminate the paper piles
- Improve your bidding efficiency and accuracy by doing all computations and alerting you to errors and omissions
- Access all current bid data
- Quickly search for vendors, line items, bid tabs and Bid Express subscribers
- Display the Apparent Bid Results in real-time
- Extend your bidding reach to other agencies
- View bid-related documents online and order printed documents with just a click
- Obtain bid tab analysis data
- Access the Small Business Network to assist in reaching DBE goals
For further information or to sign up for a Bid Express account, visit the Bid Express web site.
Case Studies
Mandating Internet bids – easy and efficient for agencies and bidders
Tennessee Department of Transportation moved to mandatory Internet bidding in 2009. During the agency’s first bid opening using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds in May of that year, 119 separate proposals were advertised. A total of 351 Internet bids were submitted, representing more than $1.2 billion. All bids were downloaded and the “apparent low bids” were posted to the Bid Express web site within a total elapsed time of 8 minutes. Speed like this was unheard of before Internet bidding. Read more…
Agency saves $150K/year posting bid-related documents online
The Online Plan Sheets service went live for the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) in July of 2005. NJDOT personnel used a simple upload feature to post documents to the agency’s web page on the Bid Express web site. Bidders who were subscribed to the service were able to access a variety of project-related documents online that had been posted by NJDOT. At any time of day, they had the option of opening and viewing the files, printing them to a printer in their office, or ordering printed copies from a selection of vendors and having them delivered. Read more…
Making the Bid Express service the one-stop shop for bidders
With the Bid Express service, Iowa Department of Transportation has found the perfect solution for their bid management needs, making the transition from labor-intensive bid meetings hampered by weather conditions, to easy and accessible Internet bid submission. Read more…
Wisconsin DOT pioneers the Bid Express service, reaps benefits quickly
“Our biggest benefit, in addition to reducing the number of staff needed, is in the savings of processing time. A typical letting contains 45 proposals with 175 bids submitted. Prior to one-way bidding, we were still processing and analyzing as late as 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. on the day of the letting. With one-way way bidding, we were done at 3:00 to 4:00 P.M., and with two-way bidding we are done by 1:00 P.M..” Read more…
When Louisiana DOT started using Bid Express, it was like going from a horse and buggy to a rocket ship - without any intermediate steps.
Reginald Jeter,
FJ Burnell, Inc.,
Shreveport, LA