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Method and apparatus for computer aided building specification generation

  • US 20010052908A1
  • Filed: 04/17/2001
  • Published: 12/20/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1997
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for developing a request for proposal by an owner, and a responding proposal by a design builder for design and construction of a product, comprising:

  • defining a requirements file for said request for proposal including a performance specification and a prescriptive specification by selecting product descriptors from an owner database;

    combining said requirements file with owner information to produce said request for proposal by selecting prewritten text segments from said owner database;

    electronically linking attachments to said requirements file;

    sending said request for proposal with said attachments as a first overlay to a design builder;

    opening and reading said first overlay with reference to a proposer database correlating to said owner database;

    preparing a responding proposal from said design builder by adding detailed product descriptors selected from said proposer database to said first overlay and producing a second overlay;

    attaching proposer information and a cost statement to said second overlay;

    sending said second overlay from said design builder to said owner;

    producing an electronic comparison file by comparing said first overlay and said second overlay; and

    using a document-use global switch option in said steps of defining and preparing.

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