Currently, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) has no clear mechanism in place to obtain electronic Computer Aided Design (CAD) data and general project data (correspondence and other data) that have been paid for under professional consulting services. Electronic data from large corridor projects has been lost and data is typically not conforming to standards. Past CAD policies never address the standardization and delivery of electronic data. Considering consulting services handles a majority of project designs at ConnDOT, it has become apparent maintaining the "status quo" is not an acceptable means of doing business given the advances in technology that ConnDOT should be leveraging on. Examples of present conditions follow: * Professional consulting services develop the majority of contracts developed by ConnDOT. In the past, ConnDOT never stressed the importance of standardizing CAD designs, and organizing the electronic data for both internal design and consultant services together. Furthermore, there has never been a cost effective delivery process to obtain the electronic data that the State of Connecticut and Federal Government pays for. Advances in operational efficiency and project delivery are not possible without improvements in these areas; * The reproduction of engineering drawings and documents is one of ConnDOT's most costly document processes. This is required for both design review and delivery of engineering drawings and documents for contractors to prepare project bid proposals. To improve this process and reduce reproduction costs, ConnDOT needs to begin developing the necessary applications that will allow in-house engineers and consultant engineers to deliver a common (standardized) design packages (plans, specs and estimates) in electronic format; * Mylar contract drawings, manually-signed, are not indestructible and can be modified. Mylars can be edited, copied and scanned, and the ConnDOT Mylar storage area is not under high security. Electronic document technologies (PDF) are available that can foster a more secure environment for contract drawing usage; and * Digital signatures are required to accomplish the above and to reduce operational costs and to improve quality, by providing documents in intelligent (searchable) PDF format throughout the entire design development process. Digital signatures will enable compliance with both Governor Rell's Executive Order #3 and Federal ADA Laws since the documents would be generated from their source applications rather than scanning processes. The existing design development process is heavily dependent on paper. Typically, design submittals (Preliminary Design, Semi-Final, Final etc) require 18 sets of paper plans and corresponding design reports. Furthermore, at times project data and critical correspondence is lost and/or not taken into consideration as a project progresses from design through construction. Electronic data for projects is currently stored in "Silos of Data", i.e. multiple discipline divided network drives or on user's local machines. This process leads to a loss of project data confluence and inefficiency throughout the entire project development process and into construction. ConnDOT's Engineering Application's Section has started to migrate to a project container environment using existing network server infrastructure; however, a more robust engineering content-management system and network infrastructure is needed. The goal of the system is to keep all project related data together for all disciplines throughout the entire project lifecycle using ProjectWise™ by Bentley Systems, an integrated engineering content management system that enables project teams, their information and their tools to work together as one. The present Federal Transportation Bill (SAFETEA-LU) and ConnDOT Stewardship agreement strives to promote greater oversight and efficiency in the delivery of transportation projects. Furthermore, Governor Rell's Executive Order Number 3, issued December 15, 2004 promotes transparency in the state contracting process and to provide for a single location on the Internet for all contract and agreement related documents. At this time, ConnDOT does not have the capabilities of fulfilling the "total" requirements of the Executive Order, which is providing plans, specs and estimates in a centralized Internet portal environment. This project will address and remediate this situation. The overall objective is to improve ConnDOT project delivery by streamlining and improving the quality of the designs and to reduce the time needed to access plan archives, and to submit and review engineering documents and drawings. A digital design environment, encompassing electronic document generation, management, signatures, project advertisement and support services will be installed. The result will be a secure, efficient, standardized project design platform to help reduce project costs, decrease project development times, and provide both accountability and storage for project documents. To achieve these objectives, proposed project milestones include: * Creation of a development, production and staging environment of ProjectWise and begin using the system on pilot transportation infrastructure projects. ProjectWise will serve as ConnDOT's primary data management system; * Acquire and implement necessary hardware and back-up system (equipment) to fully implement ProjectWise; * Develop a construction plan archive system using ProjectWise; * Develop a system/application for digital plan sheet management and indexing. This would be a production tool/application that will improve the management/organization of CAD Contract Sheet Files and how they are published to PDF. The proposed application should significantly decrease the amount of time required to generate/modify contract sheet files and publish Portable Document Format (PDF) Contract Sheet Files; * Develop an Oracle database interoperability plan for compatibility with CORE Project Costing and other department systems; * Deploy and test the developed application(s) on selected pilot projects involving both consultant engineers and in-house engineers; * To include future deployment of ProjectWise and other CAD applications in ConnDOT's current software deployment applications; * Design, purchase and implement an interoperable/scalable Oracle database for ProjectWise and for future interoperability with ESRI, AASHTO or other Oracle based applications; * Develop the application of PDF Technology in the design environment (Reviewing, Commenting, Collaboration and As-Built Drawing Creation) and to develop a customized interface specifically designed for ConnDOT's typical design review workflow and apply the applications on the selected pilot projects. The interface would have to integrate with ProjectWise with Microsoft Outlook™ and incorporate the functionality of Adobe Acrobat's™ collaboration /commenting features. The goal of the collaboration system is to streamline workflows, retain comments and improve communication in ConnDOT's design review process; * Continue development of ConnDOT's CAD standards (in-progress) and develop custom applications that can be used by both in-house engineers and consultant engineers. These custom applications intend to automatically configure remote clients PC's to ConnDOT's future CAD Standards and will serve as a quality control mechanism to assure that the latest CAD standards are reflective in the CAD Design and PDF contract sheets; * Purchase, install and deploy any necessary equipment and applications so that the processes may be applied to selected pilot projects; * Develop an implementation plan and to procure and/or utilize state forces for scanning services for the development of a ProjectWise Archive System for the Construction Plans located at Pascone Place; and, * To develop ProjectWise Geospatial and server infrastructure, and begin showing proje