MITA staff has just learned that MDOT’s 2012 Pay Item Code Book (associated with the new 2012 Standard Specifications for Construction) contains a significant number of pay item code changes. These pay item code changes are the result of several new pay items and the re-ordering of pay items incorporated since the publishing of the previous edition of the standard specification in 2003.
If you plan to bid on future projects (including many in the November letting) that were designed and will be constructed in accordance with the 2012 Standard Specifications, we draw your attention to these pay item code changes (example: 2012 pay item code for “Mobilization, Max __” is “1500001,” when previously it was “1000001”).
Uploading an MDOT provided EBS file containing 2012 pay item codes into your automated estimating system that is populated by 2003 pay item codes, will be problematic.
Click here to go to MDOT’s Design Services webpage, scroll down to “Trns-port/Estimating,” and find the new 2012 Pay Item Code Book and the previous Pay Item Code Book in various formats for downloading. We urge you to monitor this webpage often as MDOT has committed to posting a 2003 vs 2012 pay item code “conversion chart” there by weeks end.
If you have any questions or comments contact Glenn Bukoski at glennbukoski@mi-ita.com or Doug Needham at douglasneedham@mi-ita.com or call them at the MITA office at 517-347-8336.
