1. Proposal Through Award TAG Meeting October 12, 2004

2. AGENDA Greetings, Roll Call and Introductions Report From Teleconference Meetings Resignations/New Members Review Mission Statement Review Short and Long Term Goals Elections General Discussion Ballot Item Review New Ballot Items

3. Agenda Continued Florida’s Web Based Interface (Todd Geiger) Design Build (North Carolina and Florida) Experiences With A+B Enhancement (South Carolina and Florida) Bid Express Presentation (Conchi Ossa) Surety 2000 Presentation (Lisa Clemens) Electronic Signature Problems DBE Issues Adjournment

4. Teleconference Meetings August 18, 2004 September 8, 2004

5. Members Juanita Moore (FL), TAG Coordinator Mike Jenkins (IN), Assistant TAG Coordinator Roger Bierbaum (IA) Gary Erickson (MN) Penny Higgins (NC) Mark Janicek (WY) Vonda Kellett (TN) Andrea Spriggs (MD) Marcita Wade (VA) Wanda Webb (SC)

6. Resignations/New Members Resignations David Bollie (AL) Angela Derringer (VT) New Members Terry Sutton (AL) Brigitte Codling (VT)

7. Mission Statement To provide guidance for planning, managing and sharing data of value effectively to the whole TRNSPORT system and FHWA through uniformity and standardization, to ensure successful estimate and proposal preparation needs, to also include the automated proposal distribution, bid entry and analysis of contract award activities.

8. Long Term Goals Integrate browser technology into PES/LAS Combine PES and LAS into one product Integrate PES/LAS and the FMIS system Address easing the total department usage and implementation of Trnsport. This would involve interfacing with other information technology used by a state.

9. Ballot Item Review Previously Endorsed Items: 3650, 4345, 5011, 7155, 3724, 5940, 1614 Newly Endorsed Items: 7062, 7150, 7156 Withdrawn By State: 3648 (NE), 4620 (FL), 6578 (FL), 5618 (FL) Resubmitted: 3724 (FL), 4620 (MN) Ballot Item Changes: Minor wording revision to 7123 (VT)

10. New Ballot Items Change the manner in which a contract is marked for transfer to DSS and SiteManager Add functionality to obtain surety information from Expedite and pass to SiteManager

11. General Discussion Items Develop a sub-group of BidExpress users A motion was passed to support a resolution to ask InfoTech to do an analysis of TMR 3427