Questions from Contractors.pdf

1. What is the average workload? Qty of drawings per month that might need to be completed.

Right now, under GPC limits, we can send out a maximum of 17 drawings per job. However, the number of drawings and frequency of use of the BPA is completely dependent on our customer district’s requirements. Their budget and time frame determines the need for vectorization services. The amount varies from job to job so even year to year totals for all orders can be quite diƯerent.

Once this BPA is hammered out and available for use, we might get an uptick in call orders for this work, but it’s unknown how long that would take. It is likely that the biggest use will be conversion of MicroStation drawings to AutoCAD but drawing number estimates for conversions from one CAD format to the other are not known.

2. When drawings are sent to us, if they are in PDF format, do we have to convert the information on the PDF to CAD? Sometimes importing Files will not generate accurate backgrounds. What would happen at that point?

The short answer is - Yes, that is exactly what we want – scanned format images converted into CAD drawings. This question leads me to think that the contractor doesn’t fully understand what service we are requiring, unless I am not understanding their question.

For the vectorization service, we send the contractor scanned images, like: pdf, tiƯ, jpeg, png, or even photos of the resource materials, and they convert those image into a vector drawing (a CAD drawing) by using the CAD software specified in our order, typically this will be AutoCAD. They cannot simply run files that we send through an electronic converter program that creates a CAD file. That process produces an electronic file that we cannot use for our purposes.