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Doing Business with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)

Construction Guidance Documents/Manuals

• Claims Manual
• Manual for Construction Management (Available Chapter 1)
• Construction manual
• Construction Resource Guide
• Construction scheduling web page
• Department of Environmental Quality training materials
  • Illicit discharge field guide
  • Pollution prevention guide
  • Erosion and sediment control handbook
  • P2 - Waste management guide
  • Stormwater management inspector course material
• Design Build Performance Evaluation
• Emergency contract manual
• Highway Construction Inspector Apprentice Job Book - update 2021
• IIM documents - Construction Instructional and Informational Memoranda
• Inspection manual
• Locally Administered Projects manual
• 2009 MUTCD - Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (FHWA web page)
• Non-VDOT Administered Projects (NVAP)
• NVAP - Locality Job Aid
• Best Practices Guide to Administering On-Call Contracts
• Field Guide to Partnering
• Plan reading manual
• Post construction manual
• Preliminary bat inventory guidelines for bridges
• Project Cost Estimating System Manual (PCES)
• SiteManager user manual
• Specifications web page
• 2007 Road and bridge specifications book
• 2016 road and bridge specifications book
• Wage rates
• AASHTOWare Project Preconstruction (AWP-P) Manual - formerly Trns-port (June 2022)

Asphalt Paving

• Construction resource guidebook - 2013 paving schedules only
• Inspector's paving checklist
• VDOT paving manual:  A pocket guide

Procurement Information

• CABB
• Bid tabs
• Design Build request for qualifications (RFQs)
• Awarded Design Build projects
• Request for proposals
• CEI awarded contracts

Tools

• Two-year historical bid price listing
• Adjustment indices
• C-10 checklist
• Central mix aggregate proficiency checklists
• Certifications and permits
• Concrete plant proficiency checklists
• CQIP checklist
• Dashboard (VDOT project management tool)
• District bid item price averages
• ProjectWise (For electronic plans / proposals)
  To find the specific electronic plans / proposals, go to our Construction Advertisement
  Bulletin Board (CABB), find the order number you need and select the PROP or EPLANS link
  located in the EPLAN column.
• Item code tables (PDF)
• Standard and non-standard item code table - Ongoing as of Aug. 8, 2016  updated July 2018
• Standard and non-standard item code table - Ongoing as of Aug. 8, 2016 updated July 2018
  
  
• 2007 standard item code table
• 2007 non-standard item code table
  
  
• Pavement marking proficiency checklists
• Project Cost Estimating System alternate right of way worksheet / utility
• Pre-approved traffic control devices (VDOT Traffic Engineering Division / 804-786-2965)
• List of prequalified vendors
• Soils proficiency checklists
• Special products evaluation list
• Statewide bid item price averages
• Online VDOT forms
• Wage rates for Virginia
• Work zone safety checklist and instructions

Other Divisions

Alternate Project Delivery Office

• Design Build procurement manuals
• Minimum requirements for quality assurance and quality control
  
  

Location and Design

• CADD manual
• Drainage manual
• Guardrail installation training manual
• 2001 road and bridge standards
• 2008 road and bridge standard
• Road design manual
• Survey manual
  
  

Materials

• Approved lists
• Locally administered projects manual updates and materials quality assurance plan requirements
• Manual of instructions by chapter (Web page)
• Pre-approved NCHRP 350 crash-tested list (barriers)
• Pre-approved traffic control device listing
• Virginia calibration methods
• Virginia test methods

Project Management

• Project management methodology

Right of Way and Utilities

• Utility manual
• Right of way manual
   

Structure and Bridge

• Bridge inspector's reference manual – FHWA
• Code of Virginia - Title 46.2, Chapter 10
• National bridge inspection standards – Code of Federal Regulations Title 23 Highways - Part 650, Subpart C.
• Bridge safety inspections IIM-S&B-27

Traffic Engineering

• Guardrail installation training manual
• Traffic engineering manual
• Work area protection manual

Government Links

• Virginia Department of General Services
• Federal Highway Administration
  • 2019 VDOT/FHWA - Virginia Division stewardship and oversight agreement
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• Transportation Safety Institute
• Virginia Transportation Research Council

Other Resources

• List of acronyms
• VDOT forms
• VDOT University - Restricted

Is there a tool, guide, or manual not listed here that would assist you in performing your duties?  Contact Mary Roane.