George Brown College students use bids&tenders for competitive simulation

bidsandtenders

posted on 2 hours ago — updated on 1 second ago

11
views

The COVID-19 pandemic made the 2020-2021 academic year dramatically different for George Brown College students. For third-year students in the Construction Management program, it meant the cancellation of the Construction Institute of Canada’s annual bid competition. George Brown had been sending its students to this competition for 25 years, and were scrambling to fill the empty spot it left in the curriculum.

Bill Nichols, Professor at the Angelo DelZotto School of Construction Management at George Brown College, connected with Mike Murray of the Grand Valley Construction Association for assistance. Murray connected Nichols with Link2Build and bids&tenders.

The bids&tenders team was able to set George Brown students up with a live version of the platform for them to use. Because bids&tenders has the capability to post projects, publish addenda, mediate Q&A, receive online submissions, and even accept e-bonds, entirely online, it was the ideal platform to meet the requirements of the bidding competition.

The simulation featured a real-world past public-sector project; in this case, an elementary school. Students received the documentation and acted as general contractors, using estimating software, approved subtrades, and Gordian estimating data to prepare their submissions.
Source Url