All bid summaries from January 2009 and after can be found on our bid summary list, 
where the most recent bid openings are listed by date.

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/awards/bidsum_html/6week_list.php

All other bid summaries can be searched by contract number or bid opening date here:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/planholders/bidsum.php



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To obtain the bid results for a specific contract, you need 
to know its bid opening date.  The bid results of all the 
contracts on a given day are put into a single file.  These 
files are then placed into the month folder in which the 
contracts were opened.   These bid summary files have the 
following format:

YYMMDDRX.doc

Where YY is the year
           MM is the month
           DD is the day of the bid opening 
           RX is the revision for that file

and "doc" extension just signifies it is a Microsoft Word 
document. 

If your Web Browser has its helper applications configured to 
launch Microsoft Word when it sees a .doc extension, the 
Browser will automatically view the files with Word when you 
click on them from within the Browser.

These files were created in Microsoft Word for Macintosh 5.1a 
and can be read by Microsoft Word 6.0 or greater for Windows, 
6.0 or greater for DOS, or 5.0 or greater for Macintosh.  If 
you do not have Microsoft Word and you have Windows, you 
maybe able to download Microsoft Viewer (freeware) from 
Microsoft.  Also, it is best that you use a fixed font 
(Courier) in a 10 point size with a laser printer that can 
reduce the printouts to 95%.  You may use other fonts 
(Courier New) or other point sizes (9 point) if you do not 
have Courier font or the ability to reduce the printouts, but 
they do not look like the original bid summary.  The only 
other requirement is that you set your program for landscape 
mode.