US 2003/0225683 A1 · Electronic bid/proposal system for the construction industry

Abstract

A computer-based system is used to communicate between a central location and distal locations to allow submission of bidding information on a project or elements of a project. A project manager (e.g., private or public organization, commercial or residential developers, general contractor, architect, etc.) establishes a website where potential bidders on a project or request for bid (RFB) can submit detailed bids. The bids and associated information are submitted in a defined format and enables the submission of exceptions in the bidding process. The system organizes individual bids according to elements of a project and can identify bidding errors and red flag extremes in bids. The system can categorize and organize bids for the project manager, but does not render decisions.

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Dependent claims

A construction project online bidding system, the bidding system comprising a) technical infrastructure for sending, receiving, storing, and exchanging information;

and b) software enabling editable manipulations of the methodology, system processes, and system threads of the bidding system, the software being coupled to the technical infrastructure for managing at least one project process function that allows a user to identify a specific main project on which to bid, and after the user identifies a main project, the user then being able to identify major categories within the main project for submitting a bid, and the user then, under each major category identified for bid, being able to identify specific sub-project categories for bid, and after the user enters user data specific to at least one sub-project category as part of the user's bid, the system storing the user's bid made on the at least one sub-project bid on criteria other than the total cost of the bid.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronic bid/proposal system for the construction industry

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Electronic bid/proposal system for the construction industry

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Abstract

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