The Contract Tracking System is used by the Office of Beaches and Coastal Systems for contract management and fiscal administration of Florida's Beach Erosion Control Program. The Florida's Beach Erosion Control Program is a program of the State of Florida administering a budget of 30 millions dollars per year to restore and re-nourish the eroded beaches of Florida. The Contract Tracking System stores general and financial information on beach erosion control projects and uses a customized Microsoft Access 97 interface to display, edit and query data and produce reports from the database.

Key Benefits

Inexpensive application

Very user friendly

Graphical User Interface

Quality Control and Assurance embedded in the application to reduce operator's error

Automatic computation for bills and balance

Extensive report functions

Extensive use of drill-in reports and forms to make available additional information when needed

Links with other Microsoft applications (MS-Word, MS-Excel, etc.)

Limitations

Very good solution for small size of database (~100 Mb)

Limited number of concurrent users with edit capability

Characteristic and limits of Client-server application

 

Documentation and downloading

Manual. The user manual is released with any of our applications.