MGL c.149 and MGL c.30§39M Compliance

Are you designing or working on a public construction project in Massachusetts? 

All projects that receive Massachusetts state and municipal funding are required to comply with the public bidding statutes – MGL c. 149 §44 and MGL c.30 §39M.  The intent of the statutes is to make the public bidding process more transparent and to ensure fair competitive bidding.  With some of the most complicated bidding statutes in the US, the Massachusetts bidding statutes have unique provisions such as filed sub-bids, sub sub-bids, wage rate requirements, and “or equal” provisions. 

BidDocs is a cloud-based process management service that provides easy to use templates, checklists, and forms to ensure full compliance with the statutes at each phase of the process (design, bidding, and construction).  More importantly, BidDocs automates the process and guides all participants (awarding authority, designers, and contractors) to compliance.

BidDocs provides statutorily compliant:

Front-end documents (Division 00 and Division 01): Using our SmartGuide technology during the design phase, the designer answers basic questions and the system generates all the statutory required documents and sections.  Furthermore, the system verifies all the statutorily required documents, such as wage rates, are included in the bid set documents prior to being released to bid.

Bid forms and Processes: BidDocs automates the entire bidding process for all participants to satisfy the various statutory project types.  The interactive checklist interface ensures and validates that the bidders are completing all the required bid  forms.  Likewise, BidDocs guides the bid administrator through the process by using the online bidding RFI interface, bid approval & tabulation interface, and interactive checklist interface that automates and generates addendum with a click.

Construction Project Management: When ready to start construction, the bid administrator can seamlessly transfer all the bidding documents into construction.  The system automates the requisition, PCO, change order, RFI, submittal, conformed documents, certified payroll, and project closeout processes.  BidDocs performs the critical and error prone tasks to ensure that all participants remain compliant throughout the process.

BidDocs takes the guesswork out of the MA public construction statutory process by providing the guardrails for success.