Electronic Bidding: It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile! Presented by: Joe Phelan Vice President of Sales & Marketing Info 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

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

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2002  New service added: Electronic Bid Bond Validation service Surety 2000 InsureVision  9 state agencies in production

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

On-line Plan Sheets Service

Expedite Enhanced with A+B Bidding

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

Bid Tab Analysis Service

Contract Payments Search

Payments Docs

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

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

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

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 2007  Expansion into Canada  29 state/provincial agencies in production  Passed the 3,000 subscriber mark

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

Ordering Paper Plan Sets

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Local Agencies on Bid Express

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Bid Express Stand-alone for Locals

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Expedite File Created

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Post Project to Bid Express

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Down-Loading Bids from Bid Express

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

AEMN screen cap Automatic Notification Service

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

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

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com Bid Express usage today In production (31) Implementing (WA, MA, MD) Reviewing Proposals (KY, AR, NV, CT)

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 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

New Addition to Small Business Network COMING SOON!

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

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

Copyright 2009 Bidx.com 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

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…?