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 Promoting Opportunity and Diversity: ODOT is a great place to work and to do business. The department employs more than 5,000 hard working men and women, and budgets more than two billion dollars each year for goods, services and capital improvements. The following links are helpful to business related functions and opportunies at ODOT and the State of Ohio.

Innovative Delivery
  • Division of Innovative Delivery Site
    Division of Innovative Delivery
    This division's mission is developing new and innovative approaches to managing, maintaining, operating, and building Ohio's infrastructure assets to: • Reduce costs; • Enhance efficiency; and • Generate revenue. With a focus on developing and implementing ODOT’s Public Private Partnership policy and program.
Jobs & Commerce
  • Office of Jobs & Commerce Site
    Office of Jobs & Commerce
    The Jobs & Commerce staff provide outreach and respond to business issues related to transportation funding in Ohio. This section participates in the Ohio Department of Development Review Committees to troubleshoot multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional transportation issues and offers site location recommendations to encourage business to use existing transportation infrastructure and assets.
Consultant Services
  • Office of Consultant Services Site
    Office of Consultant Services
    The official means of ODOT communicating with Consultants for: • Project notifications (including local government projects); • Records of selection activities; • Announcements concerning policies and issues of interest to the Consultant community; • Prequalification procedures & listing of currently prequalified Consultants; • Transmittal of official documents; • Proposal cost summary spreadsheets, standard task lists & Invoice and Project Schedule (IPS) forms; and • Who to call in Consultant Services
Contractor and Vendor Links
  • Office of Contracts
    Office of Contracts
    This area of the department processes all ODOT Construction Contracts, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Applications, Purchasing (Vendor) Contracts and Outdoor Advertising Permits.
  • Purchasing & Contracts Resources
    Purchasing & Contracts Resources
    Invitation to bid information, vendor information, sodium chloride contract details, cooperative purchasing & other miscellaneous information
  • Vendor's Guide to Business Opportunities
    Vendor's Guide to Business Opportunities
    Details on the department's purchasing process, cooperative purchasing program, vendor registration instructions and form, purchasing services contact information, and product/services classification details.
References
  • Construction Reference Resource Center
    Construction Reference Resource Center
    The CRRC offers access to ODOT Construction reference materials such as Construction Letting and Award Information, Specifications, Proposal Notes, and Materials Information.
  • Design Reference Resource Center Site
    Design Reference Resource Center
    Access commonly used ODOT Design related publications, such as Design Manuals, Specifications and Standard Drawings.
Policies
  • Policy on First-Time Paperwork Violations
    Policy on First-Time Paperwork Violations
    ODOT has instituted a new policy that allows for, when appropriate, the waiving of penalties for first-time paperwork or procedural regulatory violations.
  • Other ODOT Policy Information
    Other ODOT Policy Information
    Access ODOT's formal Policies and Standard Operating Procedures as well as other current and archived policy related documents.
Grant Information
  • ODOT Grant Information
    ODOT Grant Information
    In accordance with HB 420 (Government Accountability and Transparency, 127th General Assembly), ODOT provides information on Grants coordinated through various agency programs.
 

 Ohio Business Gateway

 
  • Ohio Business Gateway
    Simplifying the relationship between businesses and state government... featuring Electronic Filing, information on Starting a Business, access to Licenses and Permits details and access to more resources and services you need to start, move or keep your business thriving in Ohio.