The Private Construction Office is just that -- your own private secure project plan room. When you've been asked to bid a project or have already been notified of an award, you begin by developing a new project page. Once you receive plans and specs from an owner and/or architect, you will have two options for posting a project. 

If you have electronic files, you and the architect will be given a driver to be able to post them directly to the site. Within 24 hours iSqFt will review the posting and renumber each of the plan sections to make it easier for your subcontractor to review specific designs. 

If you are only able to retrieve paper plans and specs, then iSqFt will work with a local reprographic firm of your choice to scan them in and adjust them for easy viewing. 
You accomplish the invite-to-bid process by accessing your private, on-line phone book of subs and suppliers. Select those you want to invite from this list, and/or from a public directory of subs and suppliers nationwide -- the choice is yours. 

Once you identify the subs and suppliers you wish to invite to bid, a fax and/or an e-mail message is automatically sent to each company. The message explains that your firm is inviting the recipient to bid on the specified project, and gives a "Project Pass" or code along with the Internet address to be able to review the plans and specs for purposes of bidding. Each pass is project specific, allowing the sub or supplier access to that project only. For subs and suppliers who have not previously used the Private Construction Office, the staff at iSqFt follows up this message with an introductory training phone call. 

If the company chooses to bid on your project, they just submit the bid the same way they always have.

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