Ohio Board of Building Standards - eCode Professional Services

The Ohio Department of Commerce (COM), Division of Industrial Compliance, Board of Building Standards is seeking FY27 (7/1/2026 - 6/30/2027) quotes for updating and hosting the 2024 Ohio Building Codes, 2025 Ohio Fire Code and 2019 Residential Code of Ohio with basic search and copying and pasting capabilities and selected referenced Codes/Standards in read-only format on Ohio’s eCode website for public access.

Please see the attached Scope of Work (SOW) document.

Summary of the deliverables below:

Itemized Quote. The quote shall be itemized and include the following: estimated shipping, company name, contact information, including name, phone number and email to which COM should remit the purchase order.
Nothing herein guarantees that the quote will be accepted by Commerce (COM).

Form of Payment. Please state in the quote if you accept credit card as form of payment and if there are any additional fees applied to those purchases.  If so, please state the additional fees and/or surcharge in the quote.

Current State Contract or Agreement. If the products and/or services are currently contracted under a Department of Administrative Services (“DAS”) Contract, State Term Schedule (“STS”), Master Maintenance Agreement (“MMA”) or Master Cloud Services Agreement (“MCSA”), provide the contract number and confirm your quote pricing matches what is listed in the pricing section of the DAS contract.  If the pricing contained in your responsive documents fails to match the DAS contract pricing, your quote may be rejected.
If the product and/or service requested is not quoted from an existing DAS Contract or Agreement, please provide supplier’s Software License Agreement, Maintenance Agreement, and Terms and Conditions documentation when quoting.
If not all products and/or services are referenced on a DAS Contract, please provide two separate quotes: one for products and/or services addressed in the DAS contract and one for the products and/or services not addressed by the DAS contract.
If signature is required for products and/or services not addressed by the DAS contract, please provide the agreement and/or terms and conditions related to the purchase. This includes software license agreements.

Terms. The State Standard Terms and Conditions apply to this solicitation.  No additional terms and conditions will be accepted.

Selection will be based on the lowest responsive and responsible quote.

At its sole discretion, COM may renew this Agreement at no additional cost after June 30, 2027 for the continued maintenance and hosting of the updated Ohio eCode website for public access site by the Contractor for an additional two-year period beginning at the next Ohio biennium on the same terms and conditions by giving written notice prior to expiration.

To participate or submit an inquiry for this solicitation, prospective Offerors must be registered via the OhioBuys Supplier Portal. Click the following link to initiate this process Selling to the State . Please note only registered suppliers will be considered for award.
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