Electronic Bidding: It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile!

Electronic Bidding:It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile!

Presented by:Joe Phelan

Vice President of Sales & MarketingInfo Tech, Inc.

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


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


2002

New service added: Electronic Bid Bond Validation serviceSurety 2000InsureVision



2003

New service added: On-line Plan Sheets service

New feature added to Expedite:Cost-plus-Time bidding


On-line Plan Sheets Service

Expedite Enhanced with A+B Bidding


2004

New service added: Bid Tab Analysis

On-line credit card payment option

Contractor Payment Search 16 state agencies in production

Bid Tab Analysis Service

Contract Payments Search

Payments Docs


2006

New feature added: Small Business Network

Bid Express service receives VeriSign certification for passing rigorous security assessment



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

The Small Business Network

Primes’ Solicitations for Sub Quotes

Agency Reporting Tools

Agency Tracking Solicitations By Letting

Agency Good Faith Tracking By Contractor

Prime’s Sub-Quote Request

DBE Sub-Quote Response Tracking


2007

Expansion into Canada 29 state/provincial agencies in

production Passed the 3,000 subscriber

mark


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

Ordering Paper Plan Sets


Local Agencies on Bid Express


Bid Express Stand-alone for Locals


Expedite File Created


Post Project to Bid Express


Down-Loading Bids from Bid Express


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

AEMN screen cap

Automatic E-mail Notification Service


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


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


Bid Express usage today

In production (31)Implementing (WA, MA, MD)Reviewing Proposals (KY, AR, NV, CT)


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

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New Addition to Small Business NetworkCOMING SOON!


InternetBid

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

New option in Quantity Manager Tools menu for Interactive access to Bid Express

Average, high and low bid prices automatically displayed for all items.

Project Item List

Users look up prices for individual items by clicking the item’s graph icon

The Price/Quantity graph displays a scatter plot of the bids and the average and regression prices.

Users can select a different price for the item (Regression Price)

When satisfied with prices, user can save data back to QM file

Prices appear in the Unit Cost column in Quantity Manager file


We’ve 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


THAN

KYO

U 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…?

Electronic Bidding: It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile!

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