Basic Service
Basic Service from Bid Express allows you to view and download letting information from all Bid Express states. A search function allows you to quickly find information. Bid Express also provides a complete schedule of items for each contract and the eligible bidders and plan holders lists. If you work with subcontractors often, you’ll find a subcontractor quote form that makes it easy to communicate with them. Simply select the items you want to sub-out and send the form with just a few clicks.
When you subscribe to Bid Express, you’ll also gain access to Expedite™, an application that allows you to prepare your bids electronically. With Expedite, you just need to enter unit prices because the quantities come across automatically and the computation is done for you. Expedite has built-in error checking functions that make your bids virtually error-free. You can save your bid to a floppy disk or CD-ROM, or print it for submission.
Internet Bidding
When your bid is prepared in Expedite, you can use the Bid Express Internet Bidding service to submit it over the Internet. Your bid is encrypted and held in a lockbox until the bid opening by the state agency. You can withdraw or replace your bid up to the last minute. Redundant power sources, file back-ups and duplicate hardware set-ups help to ensure that your bid is secure. Bid Express uses the latest digital signature and encryption technology. The system is built, maintained, and constantly monitored to ensure the reliability you would expect for this critical service.
Bid Express also conducts on-line verification of bid bonds through surety agencies. When preparing your bid in Expedite, you can obtain a bid bond verification code and avoid having to submit a paper bond. The code is embedded in the bid and backed by a participating surety bond processing agency.
Bid Tab Analysis
When preparing bids, contractors often find themselves having difficulty determining what to charge for an item. There are many variables that can affect an item’s cost and there is often little time to do research. Bid Express offers Bid Tab Analysis service to allow you to view past bid prices and low, average and high prices for items in a variety of formats including by proposal, items and contractor. With this service, you can perform many different analyses quickly and easily and access bid tabs data from most Bid Express states. You can view a demo movie of the Bid Tab Analysis service and/or order the service at any time.
On-line Plan Room
By subscribing to the on-line plan room service from Bid Express, you gain a ccess to plan sheets from any computer. They can be viewed on-line, printed in y our office, or ordered and shipped to you. With this service, you can:
- Download all of the sheets in a set, or a smaller selection
- View plan sheets for a job in different locations
- Pay one flat fee for viewing all plan sheets and printing them in your offic e
- Access plan sheets from all participating Bid Express states for no addition al cost
- Order custom sets of printed plans in any size and have them delivered to yo ur door (via our printing partners)
Note: Not all services are available for all state agencies. Please check with Bid Express customer support or the agency(ies) which you do business for a list of available services. View fee schedule.