The following guide assists PennBid Users with establishing Criteria for use in scoring & evaluating bid submissions based on bidder qualifications and experience.

This brief guide helps PennBid Users understand how department Reviewers can access, evaluate, and score bidders using established criteria to identify qualified bidders.

The following guide is to assist PennBid Users distinguish between Department Permissions, which are universal to a Users abilities within all projects in their respective organization, and Project Roles.

The new Public (Q&A) Question and Answer feature is now available during the Open phase of a project. Department Users have the ability to publicly share vendor questions and the responses.

If you frequently post similar types of projects, you can Create Project Templates to save time on the initial setup of future projects. Project Templates are without any distinctive project content, such as dates, assigned reviewers, submissions or reporting. 

This step-by-step guide provides instruction on how to award your project to one or more vendors/bidders for single and multi-contract projects.

This document provides Users with step-by-step comprehensive instructions on creating a new Single Contract project.

This document provides Users with step-by-step instructions on reviewing your new project set up in the Bonfire-powered system.

During your project solicitation, you may need to issue an addenda for vendors/bidders. This guide walks you through the addenda process.

Once your bid has closed, this step-by-step guide walks you through the bid unsealing “Releasing” and how to review and display the results.

Step-by-step instructions on responding to Vendor Questions through Messages and creating a Public Notice response to questions asked.

This document is intended to facilitate revisions to the “Instructions to Bidders,” EJCDC Document C200, 2018 Edition.

This document is intended to facilitate revisions to the “Instructions to Bidders,” AIA Document A701- 2018 Edition.

This document facilitates the inclusion of “Instructions to Bidders,” within the bidding documents for those agencies not using industry-standard documents.

This sample of public advertisement can be used as a template when creating your project’s advertisement or invitation to bid. Use this template to abbreviate your ad content for cost savings.

When requested, the PennBid Program completes required DBE (Disadvantaged Business Enterprises) notifications for many engineering firms and public agencies and provides a final report that can be sent to the funding agency.