James Kelly

Energy Northwest was responsible for decommissioning a nuclear facility in Western Washington with a skeleton crew of seven people. There was no way that these seven people were going to be able to create the necessary bid package, adhere to all the legal specifications, manage contractor bids, distribute the bidding packages to the bidders, quickly respond to changes in the package, and notify all the bidders of the change orders.

This is where MEIER Enterprises was probably one of the only companies around that could have handled this request completely in-house. As an engineering company we were able to create all the drawings and specifications needed. Next we developed an online bidding application where registration was required. We also handled phone requests for those companies without Internet access as the legal regulations required.

As a result, not only was Energy Northwest able to achieve its goals, they did so (with our help) and met all legal obligations. The online system took bids, distributed drawings and documents, and handled all the day-to-day needs of the contractors in a secure and easy to use system.

This system used Internet Explorer with the free DWF format viewer to view AutoCAD drawings, adobe PDF to accurately display documents/drawings for those who were unable or unwilling to install the IE plug in, compatible HTML/JavaScript, Cold Fusion, and MS SQL Server.