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AASHTOWare Project Bids Bid

The Bid component of the AASHTOWare Project Bids™ software allows bidders to complete and submit bids securely over the Internet. It also allows them to manage their Info Tech Digital IDs. 


When you open the component, you will see the Bids start-up screen. You may briefly see a message about updates. The Bid component automatically checks for updates and will upload them if any are available.


The Recent heading contains an informational message if you haven’t yet opened any proposal files. Once you do, those files will appear instead of the message.


The right side of the screen displays information about the last selected .ebsx file and its item complete.


Use the options on the left side to navigate around the software.


Open Other Project

 Allows you to select a project (.ebsx) file.

 

Open Letting

 Allows you to open a letting (.zip or .ebsx) file.

 

Manage Digital IDs

 Opens the page for Digital IDs.

 

Options

 Displays profile information and other Bid settings such as how to customize item list formats for export and import out of the software and proxy configuration for running the Bid component in a network environment. 

 

Tools Menu

The Tools menu contains a list of actions for your bid.


For more information, please see the following links:


Check Bid


Submit Bid


View or Withdrawal Submitted Bid


Mark as Joint Bid


Amendments


Export and Import Proposal


Manage Digital IDs


Options

Tools Menu Options

Use the Options window to set bidder options in the Bid component. This includes entering your company information into a user profile, managing your Digital IDs, configuring export and import file formats, and managing your proxy settings. 


For more information, please see the following links:


User Profiles


Digital IDs


Item List Formats


Proxy Settings

Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid. 


Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments. 


When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.


You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.


When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.


For more information, please see the following links:


General Tab


Schedule of Items Tab


DBE Tab


Sites Tab


Bid Bond Tab


Agency Custom Tabs


Print Bid or Bid Quote


Amendments


Proposals and Lettings

Agencies distribute files containing letting and proposal information. Download these files to a file folder location on your computer. From there, you can open them in the Bid software, where you can prepare your bid.

Do not rename the proposal files. The original file and any future amendments must be downloaded and saved under the file name assigned by the agency in order to successfully load amendments.

When you first open an .ebsx file, select the proposal that you want to bid on from the list that displays and click select.  The Bid software opens the proposal details. To open a proposal when the Bid software is already open, select Open Proposal or Open Letting from the File menu.

You may see a warning that you need to select a default user profile or the user profile in the bid file does not exist in your list of user profiles. You do not have to import the user profile, but you must designate a default user profile before you submit a bid.

When you check or submit your bid and it contains errors, the Bid component displays an error window listing the location and cause of the error. The Bid component does not always stop you from submitting a bid with errors, but the agency may reject bids that contain errors.

For more information, please see the following links:

General Tab

Schedule of Items Tab

DBE Tab

Sites Tab

Bid Bond Tab

Agency Custom Tabs

Print Bid or Bid Quote

Amendments

 

Bid Submission

When you are finished adding the information to your bid and checked it for required fields, it is time to submit it.


Follow the instructions in the Bid Submission Wizard to submit your bid electronically. You will need your bidder ID, your Digital ID, and your Digital ID password in order to submit the bid.


Click one of the following topics for more information:


Submit a Bid


View Submitted Bids


Withdraw a Bid




 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 



 


 

























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