With resources stretched thin, your staff’s day is packed with assignments. They simply don’t have the hours available to devote to time-consuming tasks. That’s when Caterpillar’s^® governmental website, GovBidSpec.com, can help your agency save not only time, but budget dollars as well.

GovBidSpec.com is your single source of information for the North American governmental buying process, helping your staff efficiently specify equipment needs by developing a well-defined Request for Proposal (RFP).

Benefits of GovbidSpec.com

• Access to quick information about all Cat^® product families and Life Cycle Costing resource.
• Efficient tool for all users, regardless of their computer expertise or prior experience-developing Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Technical specifications are written in bid-language format, reducing the time and effort required for developing a custom bid request.
• Quick access to product and financing information also speeds the proposal development process.
• Provides the ability to access local Cat dealers for additional information regarding future equipment purchases.

Life Cycle Costing evaluates owning and operating expenses throughout a machine’s working life. It puts numbers on the uncertainties of the real world – a world where equipment needs to be repaired and maintained and depreciated, and where sudden surprises can wreak havoc with your budget. Life Cycle Costing takes into account all the costs of operating a piece of equipment, not just the initial purchase price.

Click here to view the Life Cycle Costing Brochure.

When it’s time to solicit bids for the purchase of equipment, your agency typically knows the functions a given machine must perform, its approximate size, features and work tool attachments that would be needed.

If you know what you want, it’s a waste of your time to download all the machine specifications and options, and then modify them to fit your needs.

Caterpillar^® has introduced a customizable bid specification option at the governmental Website GovBidSpec.com. With this feature, you select the machine model you want, work thought the configuration options one at the time and download a bid specification in either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel format. The bid specification exactly matches your needs with very few modifications required.

To speed the process along, you also have the ability to send your configuration request directly to your Cat Dealer for a price quotation.

Accessing the customizable bid specification option is a snap. Simply visit GovBidSpec.com, select the machine family and model you are interest in and click on “Build & Quote” option on the right hand side of the page.

The next step is choosing the options you’d like from various drop-down menus. At the end of the process, you can download your newly created specification from a link at the top of the screen.

Log onto GovBidSec.com to see for yourself how simple it is to customize your equipment bios.