Electronic Bidding: Its not your fathers Oldsmobile! Presented
by: Joe Phelan Vice President of Sales & Marketing Info Tech,
Inc.
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 1997 An idea is born Wisconsin DOT
expresses desire to advertise their bids on the Internet Info Tech
responds with a one-way bid posting & download service
incorporating Expedite
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 1999 Georgia DOT takes leap of faith
and decides to do Internet bid submission (two-way bidding)
National Digital Signature law finally signed in 2000 4 state
agencies in production
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2002 New service added: Electronic Bid
Bond Validation service Surety 2000 InsureVision 9 state agencies
in production
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2003 New service added: On-line Plan
Sheets service New feature added to Expedite: Cost-plus-Time
bidding 12 state agencies in production
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On-line Plan Sheets Service
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Expedite Enhanced with A+B Bidding
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2004 New service added: Bid Tab
Analysis On-line credit card payment option Contractor Payment
Search 16 state agencies in production
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Bid Tab Analysis Service
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Contract Payments Search
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Payments Docs
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2006 New feature added: Small Business
Network Bid Express service receives VeriSign certification for
passing rigorous security assessment 25 state agencies in
production
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Small Business Network Gives Subs and
DBEs a place to market services Can create and submit sub quotes
Access to eligible bidders & plan holders list Quick
opportunity searches by item #, key word Gives Primes a place to
locate Subs and DBEs and to advertise project needs Several states
using FHWA Supportive Services funds to pay for DBE access Provides
agency with good faith audit trail
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The Small Business Network
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Primes Solicitations for Sub Quotes
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Agency Reporting Tools
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Agency Tracking Solicitations By Letting
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Agency Good Faith Tracking By Contractor
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Primes Sub-Quote Request
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DBE Sub-Quote Response Tracking
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2007 Expansion into Canada 29
state/provincial agencies in production Passed the 3,000 subscriber
mark
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2008 New feature added: Printing &
shipping of paper plan sets by reprographics partners Local
agencies discover Bid Express Development of BidX Stand-alone 31
agencies in production
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Ordering Paper Plan Sets
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Local Agencies on Bid Express
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Bid Express Stand-alone for Locals
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Expedite File Created
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Post Project to Bid Express
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Down-Loading Bids from Bid Express
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2009 New service added: Automatic e-
mail notification Passed the 5,000 subscriber mark Improving the
Small Business Network for greater agency tracking and ease of
contractors in showing good faith effort More local agencies
signing on System easily handling higher traffic from Stimulus
projects
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AEMN screen cap Automatic E-mail Notification Service
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Tennessee Stimulus Letting Tennessee
Bid Letting on May 8, 2009 117 separate proposals were advertised
351 electronic bids were received Low bids totaled $271M All bids
were downloaded and apparent low bidders were posted to the
Internet in 8 minutes TDOT is now one of 14 agencies that have
mandated Internet bidding with Bid Express
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Bid Express Statistics More than 5000
US/Canadian contractors now have Internet bidding access In 2008,
the system handled more than 28,000 Internet bids worth more than
$103.5 Billion Since inception, the system has handled more than
109,000 bids worth more than $400 Billion Michigan set record for
largest bid letting Opened 661 bids totaling $1.4B
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Bid Express usage today In production
(31) Implementing (WA, MA, MD) Reviewing Proposals (KY, AR, NV,
CT)
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Continuing to enhance the Small
Business Network Easier agency monitoring Better tracking for
bidders to show good faith effort Enhancing the Automatic E-mail
Notification service to allow more filtering of results Enhancing
the Bid Tab Analysis service to be more interactive (interface to
design systems, scatter plots, regression prices) And much more THE
FUTURE
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New Addition to Small Business Network COMING SOON!
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Internet Bid Express Server Design
System Server Design application sends project XML file to Bid
Express Server for pricing Bid Express imports XML file, looks up
unit prices and returns an XML file to the Design application
Proposed Interaction with Design Systems
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New option in Quantity Manager Tools menu for Interactive
access to Bid Express
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Average, high and low bid prices automatically displayed for
all items. Project Item List
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Users look up prices for individual items by clicking the items
graph icon
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The Price/Quantity graph displays a scatter plot of the bids
and the average and regression prices.
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Users can select a different price for the item (Regression
Price)
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When satisfied with prices, user can save data back to QM
file
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Prices appear in the Unit Cost column in Quantity Manager
file
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Weve Come a Long Way Baby! Internet
bidding has come of age and changed the way agencies are doing
business It has an unblemished history of safety and reliability,
and has been readily embraced by the contracting community It is
serving to level the playing field by providing equal access to all
contractors The Small Business Network has created a valuable
communications link between Primes, Subs and DBEs to assist
agencies in effectively meeting their EEO goals
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Copyright 2009 Bidx.com THANK YOU Thanks to those agencies who
have been with us since the beginning the true pioneers of this
service Looking forward to serving all AASHTO member agencies
Questions?