Posting construction projects for bid in Ohio?
Protect your process from errors, grow your bidding audience, and see what you’re missing when you don’t bid online with Bid Express®. Available at no cost to Ohio agencies, Bid Express can help your team streamline the bidding process and standardize bidding statewide!
Join Ohio DOT’s Effort to Standardize Online Bidding
Bid Express allows your organization to set up, advertise, and accept bids electronically, eliminating the need for paper, travel, and postage fees. By encouraging organizations to use Bid Express, Ohio DOT seeks to standardize bid forms and improve compliance and reporting.
Compliance: Incorporate state-required updated bid and item specs to ensure successful project awarding and minimize risk of missing requirements from the agency and bidder side.
Reporting: Improve visibility into funding distribution across projects and award data.
Ohio DOT’s goal is to see 75% of LPAs standardized on compliant online bidding templates and a centralized platform.
Infotech and Ohio DOT have worked together successfully for over 34 years. As the official contractor for AASHTOWare Project™, Infotech works with DOTs across the country to configure, maintain, host, and train employees on the service.
Ohio + Bid Express
VOLUME
42,000+ Bids Processed
VALUE
$96.6B in Bids Processed
COMMUNITY
4,400+ Registered Users in Ohio
AGENCIES
150+ Ohio State & Local Agencies Use the Bid Express® Service
Key Resources
In this online session, representatives from Infotech® and Ohio DOT discuss the DOT perspective on online bidding and provide a demo of the Bid Express service.
In this case study, the Jackson County team reviews the benefits of using Bid Express, including a 40-70% increase in bidders per solicitation.
This high-level product guide provides an overview of core functionality in Bid Express, including template use, bid advertising, retrieving electronic bids, posting apparent bids, and more.
Browse Bid Express Agencies
See which of your peers are already bidding online with Bid Express.
Participating Ohio LPAs
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The Benefits of Bid Express
Getting Started with Bid Express
Ready to start receiving bids online at no cost?
CONTACT SUPPORT
Already bidding in Ohio with Bid Express?
TRACKING CONSTRUCTION & INSPECTION
Want to explore tracking your construction projects after award?
Ohio DOT-approved Federal + State Templates
Ohio Testimonials
Hear from state, local, and contractor users of Bid Express.
Ohio DOT
“With the electronic system, the whole signature issue is gone. Mathematical errors are gone. Items that they forgot to bid are gone. We go to the Award Committee and they can just say ‘award’ without having to traverse all kinds of bidding issues.”
Dan Stacy, Letting Manager
Ohio Department of Transportation
LPAs
“Process-wise, it’s cleaner. I’m able to generate the documents and seamlessly convert them to PDF. We’re not printing paper and hauling it back and forth to the courthouse. I can prep the project ahead of time and advertise it when I have the authority to advertise it, and everybody’s instantly got everything they need. Addenda are really easy. Obtaining a plan holder’s list was problematic and a lot of work, and it’s really taken that out. We’re seeing a 40%- 70% increase in the number of bidders, depending on the scope of the project.”
Adam Fricke, Deputy Engineer, Clinton County
“I talked to the board and said listen, [Bid Express] pretty much does everything, they receive the bid, they post the results when the bid opening is due, so we don’t have to worry about someone not getting their package over here on time. So we subscribed to it and it worked out great.”
Rosann Keiser, Secretary, Put-In-Bay Township
“We have been using electronic bidding in New Franklin and Norton with much success. This has streamlined our bidding and award process. The automatic generation of the bid tab has been a great time saver. An incredibly valuable part of the online bidding in the past year was the elimination of in person bid openings.”
Josh Slaga, P.E., Project Manager
“The service was fantastic, and is now our permanent procedure to bid on infrastructure work. I would say the fact that clerical errors are avoided and ease of use by my engineers are the two most valuable attributes of your system. The review of the bids also has been a pleasant surprise – before Bid Express the review took days, now the review takes minutes.This is a great service that should become every agency’s standard bid process.”
Ernie Staton, Service Director, City of Fairlawn
Contractors
“Online bidding has been extremely popular with OCA members since ODOT went to it in 2006. It is much more efficient from both the contractor’s and owner’s perspective. The software ensures that bid omissions are addressed before submission and arithmetic errors are a thing of the past. It pays for itself by having just one contractor’s low bid accepted instead of rejected on a technicality. In addition, by not having to submit a bid in person, more bids will be turned in on any given project, leading to more competition and lower prices.”
Chris Engle, OCA
“From the contractor’s perspective, we love the online bidding process for many reasons!
- It helps to minimize the chance of errors with the bid packet, be it including the right documentation and/or mathematical issues.
- Online bidding allows numbers that come in at the last minute to be included in the bid process, thus ensuring the lowest best price to the project owner.
- Safety is also a key benefit as we do not have to send someone out to deliver the bid packet.
- As a member, we receive notices of upcoming projects. This can potentially save money to the contractor by eliminating plan exchange services.”
Diana Maddox, J & J Schlaegel, Inc