A firm must be precertified prior to being awarded a professional
services contract with TxDOT. In order to become precertified, firms must go
through the precertification application process. Firms that have never been
precertified with TxDOT before should start on the
New to TxDOT page.
Otherwise, precertified firms can update current information by using the
CCIS Online System or the PDCSystem.
Precertification is based on employee projects. TxDOT precertifies
individuals based on prior work experience. An employee demonstrates his or
her work experience by describing the work done on projects in the past.
Precertification is then granted or denied based on this information.
Once an employee is precertified in a work category, the firm employing
that person is then automatically precertified in that category. If only one
person employed by a firm is precertified in a particular category and that
person leaves the firm, their precertification leaves with them.
Precertification information can be updated at any time. Click
here for
instructions on how to update precertification information.
If precertification is denied in one or more categories, it may be
re-applied for. Click
here for details on how to re-apply.
Precertification is required for all work categories that constitute 5%
or more of the work on a contract. Work categories involved in proposed
contracts will be detailed in the Notice of Intent (NOI). A listing of
current NOI's is advertised on the TxDOT Web site and on the
Electronic State Business Daily
(ESBD – formerly the Texas Marketplace). Click
here to link to current NOI's for professional services.
As of April 2, 2001 it is no longer required to renew precertification.
Once precertification is granted, it is permanent. Once a firm's employee
becomes precertified in a category, the firm is then precertified in that
category.
TxDOT has sixty (60) days to review a precertification application once
it has been submitted.
