Kentucky s Electronic Proposal Book

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Kentucky s Electronic Proposal Book

• And other adventures in PES/LAS

Natcher Bridge US 231 near Owensboro
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KYTC had to get a new vocabulary

• ContID, Contract ID (aka Proposal Code Number)
• Call Number Order, ContID to be called in
  letting, NEW!
• Item Code Number now at least 5 digits, was just
  4.
• Proposal can have one or more projects (ie Group
  Proposal).
• ContID not sequential, they are created by
  designers and proposal compilation.
• Proposal Item Number standardized on increments
  of 10 .

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New Look for reports

• TRNSPORT PES/LAS Software to administer the
  Proposal and Letting will be used.
• Notice to Contractor will have slightly different
  format. It will be sorted by call number.
• Contracts have Call Number for Letting and
  Contract ID (ContID).
• Bid Items Code at least 5 digits. Listed in New
  Specification book and on web page.
• Proposals have page numbers and will be in PDF
  format with most pages searchable, and final file
  size now much smaller.
• KYTC HwyBid new Version 2.0 will be used for May
  letting.
• Reports from HwyBid look slightly different.

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Notice to Contractor
Call
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Bid Item Codes
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KYTC Plug-in Ver 1.0

• Developed by in conjunction with Mark Douglas of
  ITI the KYTC PES/LAS lead with Chris Brown from
  ITI programmer, Chris Lambert, Bob Lewis Fred
  Upchurch from KYTC
• Running under PLC 5.5-a1. DB Server Win 2000
  Oracle 8i Development Server 082h2 cpu/500mhz
  memory/2g Production Server
  ea52lqk32r cpu/2.8ghz memory/4g
• Began Production PES/LAS May 2004. Proposal
  created with plug-in and posted to web. Still
  printing copies for sale but long range goal is
  to have contractors get from web. District Office
  can get copies from web.
• Client has Windows 2000, Office 2000 Adobe
  Acrobat 5.0
• Standard KYTC client has NT or XP with Office 97.
  Some clients with Acrobat 6.0 are needed to
  apply headers and page numbers.

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KYTC Plug-in Ver 1.0 cont.

• When developed Adobe Acrobat 5.0 was standard and
  it does not allow page numbering or headers
• Attachments either PDF or Word documents
• Next version will NOT be OS specific. Also, KYTC
  just now getting Test Server operational to be
  able to insure plug-in will work with releases
  higher than PLC 5.5a-1
• After Proposal generated, re-opened in Abode 6.0
  to put headers and page numbers.

New Rest Area I-65 Hart Co.
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Create list of Special Note and Provisions
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Plug-in at Proposal Level under Attachment Tab

• Edit Base Provs for Note administrator to edit
  base generic notes or add same.
• Gen Prop Book to create a rolled up PDF file.
• Edit Prop Prov let user edit an attached note for
  contract specific provision. Note that Base note
  not affected but change added to attachments.
  Attachments either Word or Abode PDF files.
• Edit INI to create password for plug-in, separate
  from GUI or batch passwords.

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Edit Prop Provisions
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Edit Prop Provisions continuedattach files that
are either Word or PDF(Word for Contract
specific information)
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Edit Prop Provisions continued
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Generate Proposal (Need client with Acrobat 5.0)
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Generate Proposal (Need client with Acrobat 5.0)
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Generate Proposal (Need client with Acrobat 5.0)
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Old Proposal
New ProposalCreated with Plug-in in PES
Attachments
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Contract Project (s) Description Page a RTF
report added as an attachment.
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Proposal with Page Numbersadded with Adobe 6
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Proposal Item Number Page generated with KYTC
WinBid and attached to proposal
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Construction Inspections from the air!
Henderson, Ky
Glasgow, Bypass gt
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Proposal posted to KYTC websitehttp//transportat
ion.ky.gov/contract/
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Proposal posted to KYTC websitehttp//transportat
ion.ky.gov/contract/
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Proposal posted to KYTC websitehttp//transportat
ion.ky.gov/contract/
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Vulcan Quarry Gilbertsville, KY near LBTL
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More Construction Pics
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Questions?
Robert C. Lewis, P.E. Assistant
Director Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Division
of Construction Transportation Cabinet Office
Building 3rd Floor West Wing Room W3-06-02
Frankfort, KY 40622 502-564-4780 extension
3784 fax [phone] bob.lewis_at_ky.gov