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Computer system and method for facilitating and managing the project bid and requisition process

  • US 7,747,457 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2006
  • Issued: 06/29/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A project-work risk-management documentation method comprising:

  • configuring an electronic temporary-laborer risk-management document library;

    wherein the step of configuring the temporary-laborer risk-management document library comprises;

    specifying a plurality of temporary-laborer risk-management documentation types, the plurality of documentation types being representative of documents that may need to be executed or provided by a temporary laborer;

    specifying a plurality of temporary-laborer types such that a temporary laborer is classified into a single one of the plurality of temporary-laborer types; and

    mapping the plurality of temporary-laborer types to the plurality of temporary-laborer risk-management documentation types to determine, for each temporary-laborer type, which ones of the plurality of document types must be provided or executed by temporary laborers belonging to the temporary-laborer type;

    configuring a plurality of bid templates according to at least one project services type, the plurality of bid templates being usable for creation of buyer bid requests;

    wherein the configured plurality of bid templates comprise a plurality of pre-specified bid items associated with specific types of information to be solicited from a vendor, the plurality of pre-specified bid items comprising the specified plurality of temporary-laborer types and the plurality of temporary-laborer risk-management documentation types mapped to the specified plurality of temporary-laborer types;

    responsive to a bid request for a particular project based on a particular bid template in the plurality of bid templates, receiving, from a vendor, a temporary-laborer record corresponding to at least one of the plurality of pre-specified bid items, the temporary-laborer record representing a particular temporary laborer who is to be engaged for the particular project, the particular temporary laborer being of at least one temporary-laborer type from the plurality of temporary-laborer types;

    wherein receipt of the temporary-laborer record is conditioned on approval by at least one pre-configured approver, the approval being based, at least in part, on a pre-defined appropriate vendor response to at least one bid item of the particular bid template;

    receiving at least one temporary-laborer document from the particular temporary laborer, the temporary-laborer document corresponding to a documentation type mapped to the at least one temporary-laborer type in the mapping step and included as at least one of the plurality of pre-specified bid items;

    administering a temporary-laborer agreement from the risk-management document library to the particular temporary laborer, the temporary-laborer agreement being mapped to the temporary-laborer type in the mapping step; and

    wherein the step of configuring the temporary-laborer risk-management document library, the step of configuring the plurality of bid templates, the providing step, and the administering step are implemented by a computer system.

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