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Q.
When is letting information posted?
A.
Letting
information is posted according to the following schedule.
Listing
of advertised contracts with bid items and quantities
Updated by 9:00 A.M. on
first workday following any advertisement.
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EBS
file transfer capability
Updated by 9:00
A.M. on second workday following any advertisement.
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List
of Planholders
Updated
Wednesday and Friday by 9:00 A.M. & after 3:00 P.M. on last
workday before letting date.
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Bid
Results
Uploaded by 2:00 P.M. on letting date.
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Bid
Tabulations
Uploaded by 9:00
A.M. on first workday following contract award. |
Q.
How do I print
text files such as Bid Tabulation and Notices to Contractors to my
printer?
A.
Bid Tabulations and the Notice to
Contractors are formatted for landscape printing, therefore your page
setup or page properties need to be changed before printing these
documents. For instance, within Explorer:
- Select Page Setup from the menu
File,
- Select Landscape for the
Orientation,
- Set Left and Right Margins as
0.3”,
- Set Top and Bottom Margins as
0.75”,
- Select Printer or
- Select OK and then Print from the
menu File
Q.
How do I get my
page breaks before the titles or headers within the document?
A.
Documents, which contain multiple titles
and page headers throughout the document, are database dumps of
documents that are formatted to be printed on our mainframe printers.
The text files have numbers such as 0, 1, or 1 and a 0 in the left
margins just before the title or header. These numbers can be replaced
with a manual page break using a standard word processor. For instance
within Explorer:
- Select Save As File from the menu
File,
- Select Directory to place the file
in,
- Complete the field, File name, with
a unique name for the file being save to the disk.
- Open the document (file) using a
word processor such as Microsoft Word,
- Select Page Setup from the menu
File,
- Select Landscape for the Orientation
from the Paper Size menu, and
- Set Left and Right Margins as
0.3”, and Set Top and Bottom Margins as 0.75” from the Margins
menu,
- From the Edit menu choose Select All
and
Set the font type to Courier and the size to 8
- From the Edit menu choose Replace
and complete the fields for a number such as 1 within the left
margin denoting the title or header
- Find What: ^p1
- Replace With: ^m
where ^p and ^m represents Special replacement for a Paragraph Mark
and Manual Page Break
Note: The above values will vary
between documents (files)
Q.
Why
the acronym PC?
A.
The Contract Administration Division
reports to the Deputy State Highway Engineer/Construction.
Q.
Why am I getting old information?
A.
If you appear to be getting stale web
content, try reloading the page first. If that fails, go to your
browser’s Network Preferences and clear both the “Memory” and
“Disk Caches.” Your browser is holding previously accessed
information/pages in your memory and cache and referring to them instead
of reloading the most current information.
If this becomes a constant
problem for you, you can also change your “Check Documents” setting
in Network Preferences by clicking the “Every Time” button. By doing
this your browser will “Check” each document/page “Every Time”
it is accessed for any changes that have occurred since the last time
you accessed that same document/page. This will insure that you will
always receive current information, however, it may take more download
time due to the automatic reloading process on every page, every time
you access it.
Whichever option you choose,
please be advised that the reloading process is particularly important,
and should be done often, when using Calder’s web site due to the
constant updating of information.
If you are using a browser in
which these options do not apply, contact your browser developer. In the
case where your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has it’s own built in
browser such as AOL, contact AOL directly for instructions on clearing
cached (old information) from your browser.
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