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Project Managers, and others who start and administer bids, use both the (04.0001) MIT Bidding Process (BIDa) process and the e-Builder Bidding Module module to begin and manage bids.
The 04.00 01 Bidding process controls workflow for review and approval for of bidder lists and bid documents. The Bidding module is where the bid is assembled , and released for viewing and submission by contractors/vendorsbidders. The Bidding module support supports tabulation of bids, leveling and the award, and allows for communication to selected and not selected bidders.
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Key Concepts
Projects
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In e-Builder, projects refer to the projects for which you are identified as a participant. Each "real world" project is associated with a project in e-Builder. If you are working on the "real world" version of the project you can be added to the project in e-Builder.
Contact
To invite a potential bidder to bid on a project that bidder must be created as a contact Contact in e-Builder. Each invited contact must have a fax and/or an email address.
A contact Contact is different than a standard an e-Builder user. An e-Builder user is someone that has been added to the e-Builder system as a participant on one or more projects. A contact has a record containing contact information and is associated with an e-Builder a Company. These contacts
Contacts do not have access to all of the information about a project; only the project bid information that the contact is invited to. For every contact that is invited to bid there will be a historical record of their participation in the contact details.
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