Public Bid Data · Dataset

FDOT Bid Tabulations Index: 1,759 Itemized Lettings, 2020–2026

Every itemized Florida DOT bid tabulation we harvested, central office and district, with the contract, letting date, counties, description, page count and a direct link to FDOT's PDF. The map to the most detailed public price record in construction.

Version 1.0.0 · released 2026-09-06 · 1,759 tabulations · 96 with marine items · CC BY 4.0 · compiled by Mavlon

Key facts

  • The index lists 1,759 itemized FDOT bid tabulations (1,210 central-office lettings, 549 district lettings) from 2020-01-16 to 2026-07-16, each with a direct link to FDOT's PDF; 96 of them contain marine or marine-adjacent pay items.
  • FDOT's own aggregate item-average reports carry only standard roadway items; dock, gangway, bulkhead and fender prices exist only inside the itemized tabulations, which is why an index of the PDFs is needed at all.
  • Exactly one letting in the harvest carries 751-series floating dock and gangway items (E4Y47, July 2026). Marine work bids through counties, cities, ports and FWC boat-ramp programs far more often than through the DOT.

Tabulations by year

Letting yearTabulations
2020247
2021255
2022321
2023274
2024283
2025270
202677
undated (scanned award notices)32

How to use the index

Use the table below (or the CSV) to find lettings by county, district or description, then open the PDF. Rows marked ● contain at least one marine or marine-adjacent pay item; their prices are already extracted in the marine bid prices dataset. For a step-by-step method of reading a tabulation line by line and building your own price database from it, see how to find dock and ramp work.

Method and provenance

Central-office tabulations (1,210) were enumerated from FDOT's Cerberus file share, organized by year and month, and downloaded sequentially with a polite delay. District tabulations (549) were enumerated from the district letting pages on fdot.gov. The first page of every PDF was parsed for letting code, date, contract, district, counties and description. The scripts are in the GitHub repository. Harvest and parse re-run on 2026-09-06.

How to cite

Jain, A., & Mavlon, Inc. (2026). Florida Marine Construction Bid Prices and FDOT Bid Tabulations Index (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22636309

The DOI above is this release; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22636308 always resolves to the newest version.

License: CC BY 4.0. Corrections and additions: atishay@mavlon.co.

Browse by letting year

Rows live on the year pages above, one page per letting year, so each year is browsable on its own and nothing is printed twice. The whole index in a single file is the CSV download at the top.

Changelog

v1.0.0, 2026-09-06. First release: 1,759 tabulations, 2020-01-16 to 2026-07-16.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I find FDOT bid tabulations?
FDOT publishes an itemized bid tabulation PDF for every letting. Central-office (Tallahassee) tabulations are filed on FDOT's Cerberus file share by year and month; district lettings are posted on each district's letting page. This index lists every tabulation we harvested with a direct link, sortable by date, district, county and description.
What is in an FDOT bid tabulation?
A Vendor Ranking page (every bidder, total bid, percent of low bid) followed by the tabulation of bids: every pay item with its line number, item code, description, quantity and unit, and each bidder's unit price and extended amount. It is the most detailed public price record in construction.
How many bid tabulations are indexed?
The index lists 1,759 itemized FDOT bid tabulations (1,210 central-office lettings, 549 district lettings) from 2020-01-16 to 2026-07-16, each with a direct link to FDOT's PDF; 96 of them contain marine or marine-adjacent pay items.
Can I download the whole index?
Yes, as CSV or JSON, under CC BY 4.0. Each row has the contract number, letting code and date, district, counties, description, page count, the FDOT PDF link, and a flag for tabulations that contain marine pay items.
Why are some links on FDOT's file share?
Central-office tabulations before 2026 live on FDOT's Cerberus share; the links open the PDF in the browser. If FDOT reorganizes the share, the contract number and letting date on each row are enough to find the file again on fdot.gov.

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