Situation When Kiewit Western Company, a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation, takes on a new construction project, it puts together the project plan and cost estimates to then solicit bids from subcontractors to fulfill the requirements. Depending on the size and scope of the project, the requests could be sent to as few as a couple hundred companies or to as many as thousands of subcontractors. For years, Bob Pemberton, Kiewit’s Business Development Coordinator, sent the bids for each project via fax. “I had a contact list of 27,000 subcontractors, which meant I was working with 27,000 different fax numbers,” said Pemberton. “First, I had a software program on my computer that stored the numbers, but I wasn’t able to send faxes from that program. So, next, I manually transferred

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