Update Bid Documents

Objective

To update documents, specifications, and drawings that are included in your bid package.

Things to Consider

Steps

 Important
Bid packages containing more than 100,000 files may lead to degraded application performance.

Update the Selection of Files on the Bid Package

Follow the steps below to add or remove bid files from the Drawings, Documents, and Specifications tool. 

  1. Navigate to the project's Bidding tool.
  2. Open the bid package you want to update bid files for.
  3. Click the Files tab.
  4. Click Edit.
  5. Click the tool that you want to update files from.
  6. Mark a checkbox to add a file, or clear a checkbox to remove it. 
  7. After you have made your changes, click Update.
  8. Send a New Correspondence in the Bidding Tool to inform your bidders of the change.
    Note: Companies who already received your bidding invitation will have a link to the original bid documents, so you will need to create a correspondence to alert them of the change. Companies who have not yet been invited to bid will see the updated bid documents.

Update Files Changed Outside of the Bidding Tool

If updates have been made to the bid documents outside of the bid package (for example, if files were uploaded to your bid folder in the Documents tool), you will see a banner that informs you that changes were made to the files.

update-bid-files-banner.png

You will see the banner in the following cases:

You will NOT see the banner in the following cases:
  • New document revision is added to the bidding folder(s) in the Documents tool.
  • New documents are added to the bidding folder(s).
  • Drawing revisions are added to the attached set(s).
  • Drawings are moved to a different Drawing Set.
  • Drawings are moved from one Drawing Area to another.
  • Specification revisions are added to the attached set(s).
  • An empty document folder is added.
  • Drawings are deleted from the attached set(s).
  • Specifications are deleted from the attached set(s).
  • Documents are deleted from the attached folder(s).
  • All associated documents are deleted from the attached folder(s).
  • All associated drawings are deleted from the attached folder(s).
  • A new document subfolder is added to an attached parent folder where not all subfolders are selected.

 

To update the files on the bid package: 

  1. Navigate to the project's Bidding tool.
  2. Open the bid package.
    The Action Required banner is shown. 
  3. Click Update. 
    This will update the bid files in the bid package to match the updates made outside the bid package.
    Note: Links to bidding documents found in a Bid Invitation email will also update.

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