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There is no cost to consultants to sign up or use Bid Express to view or respond to KDOT-Engineering and Consulting RFQs or RFPs. The cost information shown on the sign-up page does not apply to consultants responding to KDOT RFQs or RFPs.
Every person who might want to see KDOT RFPs needs to sign up for their own vendor (consultant) account (it is not a single account for each company). Consider associating your individual account with a pre-existing company instance for your firm in Bid Express.
After signing up and logging into your personal account, vendors (consultants) can enable free 'follower notifications' from KDOT's Bid Express landing page. This will allow you to receive notifications each time an RFP solicitation is advertised, addenda of any kind are issued (including Q&A), or an advertisement is withdrawn from view.