Hosted: Hosted projects enable plan room owners to facilitate bidding on projects,
and provide an interface for communication with bidders, providing online or
faxed bid documents and sharing information about the bid.
Invited: When prospective and invited bidders enter PDM Bidding, they will see a list
of projects to which they have been invited as well as associated information
regarding their status. From the Invited, you can proceed to invited bid
packages and project details, as well as your project Inbox (if you have been
invited to a project).
For each project there are four phases:
- Setup
- Active
- Inactive
- Archive
The main goal of PDM Bidding is to assist general contractors in managing the bidding
process. If you click on a project, there are four tabs on the screen that allow you to manage your project:
Status
Displays your Inbox and allows access to your Sent Items and Bidders areas. From here, you can
also utilize the Notify feature to alert bidders to updates and addenda to bid packages.
Details
Includes details about the project as well as pertinent contact information. From
here, with permissions, plan room owners can edit project details, including the phase of the project.
Project Documents
You can Upload documents to a hosted project, and
perform other activities with the documents, e.g., Order, TakeOff, Download, Scan, Rename, Remove
Bid Packages
Every project in PDM Bidding can contain one or more bid packages. A bid package
is an entity within a project that includes details about bidding, a list of CSI codes associated
with the bid, prequalification settings, and all bid documents necessary for a subcontractor to
submit a bid.
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