FIELDMANAGER

IOWA STYLE!!

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RCE Office FieldManager Set-Up

TS1 Line to Ames

Communication BetweenRCE Office and Project

Inspection Staff

FieldManager Desktop(May Be One or Two PC’s)

FieldBook2 Laptops(Any Number Depending

on Local Availability)FieldPadHandheld(Future)

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• Stand Alone Installation

• 15 Residencies – Central Construction – 6 Districts - 11 Counties – 3 Consultants – 8 Contractors

• Approximately 250 – 275 users

• Training is done as needed and/or requested

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• Virtually all interstate and primary contracts are administered by construction residencies and are done so in FieldManager

• 11 of 99 counties are “live” for eligible contracts

• 3 consultants have administered FM contracts for the D.O.T.

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• About $550 million in contracts will be let this year with approximately 65% of that amount being documented & paid through FieldManager

This 65% includes eligible county/local contracts and 100% of the primary/interstate dollars

• The $550 million equates to approximately 300 contracts - about ½ of that number using FM

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• Contractor Read-Only Version of FM –

We currently have 8 contractors using it & more asking about it

• Contract is exported following each estimate• Immediate knowledge of dollars and items paid on

each estimate processed• Tracking of contract modifications• Print their own weekly working day reports• Can see details of item postings (all fields on each

form plus remarks)

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The Life of a New Contract in Iowa –1. Contract is let by the Office of Contracts

2. Daily - Contracts sends a note to all offices, myself, and others listing the signed contracts they have approved on that day

3. Weekly - I init only signed and approved contracts

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Life, con’t.4. Using a DOT developed application, the

contracts are pulled directly from PES/LAS and put into a unique file for the residency assigned to the contract (our “init” process)

5. Using e-mail, offices are advised when the “init” process has been run

6. FM users retrieve their new contract(s) using another DOT developed application and imports it into their FM program

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Once the contract is in the FM machine -• Residency exports contract(s) to inspectors who

use FieldBook to make entries

• We use either a diskette, removable flash drive, or our network to pass IDR files to and from FM

• IDRs are exported to FM a minimum of once per week, more often is better but not always a reality!

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Offices retrievenew contracts

from theirunique location

Contract isexported from

FM

IDRs created in FB& exported to FM

IDR turn around file imported

into FB

Other FM functions areperformed, estimate

is generated &processed

Daily Diariescreated based on

IDR entries

FB users importcontract intotheir laptop

Contractsare put into PES/LAS

for each letting

“Init” Contracts

Weekly

FB Duties

FM Duties

IDR files importedinto FM & IDR TAF

created

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• To pay the contractor –– An estimate is created and generated in FM– The upload file that combined all .exp files in

the FieldMgr\Outbox is sent to the mainframe (CPS) where items are paid & a turn around file is created

– The turn around file from CPS is imported into FM – that synchronizes quantities and dollars

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• 6 -9 times per year a new reference file is created so all new items, vendors, etc. are included in it

• After the reference file is created, an Iowa form is linked to each new item before I alert FM users that a new reference file is available

• All FM users import the reference file

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• We have approximately 90 different forms for both English and metric items

• Many of the forms are self-calculating

• The only disadvantage to our forms – The FieldPad hardware does not have enough storage for all the forms so we don’t use that program

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• The form used for all lump sum items

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• This form is for square meter items• Length is calculated based on the Station From and

Station To entries while Quantity is calculated based on the length and width entries

• If the program calculates a different number than what you choose to enter in that field, the program calculation will be displayed in red

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• The form in this sample is for an HMA item

• Length, Yield and Quantity fields are self calculating based on entries in other fields

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• This form is used for flaggers & pilot cars

• Quantity is automatically calculated based on the <4 and >4 hours fields

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Some of the Excel queries I have created to search for data due to the uniqueness of our forms

• Class 10 & 12 Excavation

• Final Quantities• Flagger

• Fuel Adjustments and Incentives

• HMA Paving• Length-Width-Height• Plan Quantity• Pavement Markings &

Removals• Sketches

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• Some queries are run monthly for management reports

• Work Accomplishment

• Inspectors working on contracts

• Time Charges

• Contract Mod Items• Status of Cont Mods• Mobilization Pmts• Performance Tracking

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• Questions???

• Janet Wasteney• Iowa D.O.T.• Training Officer• 641-782-2096 (phone)• 641-344-0044 (cell phone)• janet.wasteney@dot.iowa.gov