Division 00: Procurement and Contracting Requirements
Division 00 holds the bidding and contract documents: the invitation to bid, the instructions to bidders, the bid form, the bonds and the conditions of the contract.
MasterFormat group: Procurement and contracting
What Division 00 includes
- Invitation to bid
- Instructions to bidders
- Bid form and bid bond form
- Agreement form
- General conditions and supplementary conditions
- Wage determinations, when the project has them
Who bids Division 00
No one bids Division 00. Every bidder must read it, because it sets the bid date, the bonds and the contract terms.
What an estimator should check
- 01The bid date and time, and how the bid must be delivered.
- 02Bond requirements for subcontractors.
- 03Prevailing wage and tax exempt status.
- 04The deadline for questions and for substitution requests.