Bid Express
The future of transportation construction project bidding has arrived. Electronic bidding has never been this easy or secure for both the agency and the bidder.
Bid Express frees you from the exhausting paper bidding process and lets you focus your time and money on more important things. Bid Express works in conjunction with Expedite, which is used by bidders and agencies for bid creation, submission and processing.
Bid Express is available to agencies of all sizes – from national, state and provincial transportation agencies, to city and county governments. Agencies of all sizes can benefit from on-line bidding. Bid Express interfaces with the premier construction management applications: AASHTO Trns•port and Appia.
For the agency, Bid Express can:
- Enable you to receive secure bids and bid bonds electronically
- Allow you to instantly communicate with your bidding community
- Immediately distribute updated letting data
- Significantly reduce bid letting and processing times
- Broaden your bidding audience
- Eliminate redundant data entry and careless errors
- Interface with Appia for easy integration of construction management and Internet bidding
- Offer plan sheets on-line
- Publish bid tab data
- Improve communications between primes and DBEs
For the bidders, Bid Express can:
- Eliminate letting-related travel and accommodations
- Eliminate the paper piles
- Enable you to submit secure bids and bid bonds electronically
- Improve your bidding efficiency and accuracy
- Provide you with all current letting data
- Give you unparalleled search capabilities for vendors, line items, bid tabs and Bid Express subscribers
- Display the Apparent Bid Results in real-time
- Extend your bidding reach to other states
- View plan sheets on-line and order printed sheets with just a click
- Obtain bid tab analysis data
- Assist in reaching DBE goals
For further information or to sign up for a Bid Express account, visit the Bid Express web site.
