bidVAULT FAQ

You will use your ConneX account. If you do not have an account, you will need to first create an account on ConneX by either creating a new organization and account or by joining your organizations account.

Yes, you can find step-by-step instructions: HERE

Bid items can also be exported/downloaded from the project owner’s OneOffice project dashboard (this is where plans are downloaded).

You must first be a plan holder in order to bid on a project. You will need to login with a ConneX account in order to download plans and be added to the plan holder list. To become a plan holder, follow these steps:

1. Login to Connex.

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2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on 'View Full Advertisement.

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3. In the upper right, download plans within the ‘Plans Available for Download’ section.

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4. Down at the bottom of the page, check if you’ve been added as a plan-holder.

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Bids are secured through encryption and security features at various stages and levels:

• AWS FedRAMP compliant data center

• Data encryption at rest

• Data encryption in transit

• Bid data encryption through Elliptic-curve (EC) cryptography (bid key). This level of encryption ensures that, even for those agencies (like AWS or RTVision) who may have access to the server or database, bid data can only be read by the agency or user(s) with the bid key until bids can be opened.

You use bid credits to bid. Each bid is worth 1 credit and each credit costs $35 (or less if you purchase a number of bid credits at once). The project owner determines if they will pay on behalf of the bidders (in which case the cost to bid is '0' bid credits), or if the bidder will pay for the bid credit.

You can purchase bid credits from your organizations ConneX account (found under the ‘Organization’ page). You will be automatically directed to this page to purchase bid credits prior to bidding if you do not have any bid credits available. You can also track remaining and used bid credits from ConneX.

Yes, through the 'Bid On' option in ConneX.

Try following these steps for Connex:

1. Go to http://connex.uccs.com/ .

2. Login (Upper right)

    

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3. Click on Awarded Contracts.

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4. Scroll down and click on ‘Bid On’.

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5. Bid-On Contracts should show on the bottom.

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The project owner will be able to see all bids, whether complete or not, when bids are opened (unless you withdraw your bid). Any completed information will be shown and the missing information will be noted. Each agency has the discretion to determine if a bid is complete or not.

Yes, bids can be deleted after editing an open bid.

You will receive an email with a notification that your bid was completed. You will also be able to see if your bid was complete when viewing the list of contracts your are bidding on from ConneX.

If you want to work on the bid with other individuals in your company, or access it from other browsers/devices. You can still download your bid key at the top of the page when entering your bid data. You can save this bid key and this bid key will then be uploaded before your bid can be accessed.

This error means that the bidder/vendor number identifying the contractor does not match what is shown/listed on the bid bond.

You no longer need a PIN ID to sign and approve documents.