Bridging innovation and integrity for nearly 50 years

Jim McClave founds Infotech, then known as Info Tech, in October 1977 with his wife Mary Jay running the books. To maintain cash flow when he isn’t consulting, Jim authors introductory statistics textbooks that are still in use today.

Combining their expertise in statistics, economics, and technology, Jim McClave and Tom Rothrock collaborate for the first time on a project for the Florida Attorney General to develop computerized techniques to assess competition in the market for school bread in the state of Florida.

Jim takes time off from UF without pay to keep growing Infotech, renting two rooms in an accounting company’s office. Several employees join the company who are still part of the Infotech family today. Will and Jamie McClave, Infotech’s future Presidents, are 8 and 6 years old respectively.

Jim sends Tom a letter asking him to officially join Infotech. Tom leaves his job as a professor to join the early chaos of ongoing cases, testimony, and textbook production. The dream team is just getting started.

Infotech handles its first major case, analyzing the Florida DOT highway construction industry for bid-rigging activity. The case resulted in a record $30 million in settlements for a bid rigging case and built the foundation for Infotech’s software and Consulting businesses.

After seeing the potential for computerized analysis, Infotech develops the first iteration of BAMS/DSS for Kansas DOT as a software platform with an integrated historical database for preconstruction and construction activities. Impressed by the platform’s ability to foil bid riggers, other states begin to license the software.

Growing rapidly and in dire need of expansion, Infotech relocates to new space in the Florida Farm Bureau building – home for the next 30 years.

After Infotech successfully implements BAMS in several other states, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) purchases all of Infotech’s software, beginning a partnership that still exists today.

Fresh off the sale to AASHTO, Infotech continues innovating by developing the first estimation software to use a combination of bid base and cost base methods. Later named Estimator^™, an evolved form of the software is still in use today.

The Consulting business participates in a major school milk price-fixing case with the Florida Attorney General that results in total settlements of more than $33 million. This was a national record for a single state that breaks Infotech’s national bid rigging recovery record of $30 million in the Florida highway bid rigging case.

Infotech rewrites all its software in the new IBM CICS and DEC VAX environments, creating a standardized enterprise application. This development allowed for scalability across multiple DOTs with a single code base on each platform.

Infotech develops an electronic bid preparation system (EBS) for highway construction contracts. EBS – now known as AASHTOWare Project Bids^™ – eventually becomes the nationwide standard for over 40 state transportation agencies.

As Infotech’s software product line continues to grow, the statistical Consulting business continues to help achieve record-breaking settlements, including over $100 million in multiple Florida price-fixing cases involving infant formula, an industry that was required to pay nearly $1 billion in damages nationwide.

Infotech continues to develop powerful e-Construction solutions with FieldBook^™, an application that supports data entry for construction inspections. Through a partnership with Michigan, this product grows into FieldManager^® and is still being used in the state today.

A few years before celebrating its 20th anniversary, Infotech hits $5 million in revenue.

As Infotech’s product line continues to grow, its team does too – the company now has 50 employees. Email arrives at the expanding company – and despite the eventual introduction of Slack, it hasn’t left yet.

In collaboration with Wisconsin DOT, Infotech develops Bid Express^® as an online hub for advertising construction bids – which is the first time anyone posted lettings online.

Infotech collaborates with Georgia DOT to add internet bid submission capabilities to Bid Express^® using data encryption and public key technology for digital signatures. This ultimately becomes the standard for bid submission to DOTs nationwide.

Infotech’s reputation grows in more ways than one. As the software business begins developing Appia^® for construction administration and inspection, the Consulting business participates in a high-profile case involving an Anheuser-Busch distributorship founded by professional baseball player Roger Maris.

Just a year after celebrating its 25th anniversary, Infotech hits $20 million in revenue.

Infotech continues to expand. Bid Express^® starts to dominate, serving more than 50 agencies. Seeing great potential with Appia^®, the company makes significant investments into the application.

Continuing its relationship with AASHTO, Infotech begins to rewrite Trns·port into AASHTOWare Project^™. This rewrite was Infotech’s first effort to transition from a client-server platform to a web-based platform.

Infotech turns 30! What started as a small firm providing testimony and writing textbooks in a garage is now a company with over 100 employees in its growing family. Building from the successful partnership with AASHTO, Infotech founds the ITI Products division to expand its services to new, non-AASHTO markets.

You don’t make it to 30+ years without people powering you forward. Infotech is named one of Florida’s Best Companies to work for by Florida Trend Magazine and the 2009 Gainesville Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year.

Not wanting to leave out non-DOT markets, Infotech launches a secondary version of Bid Express^® for vertical construction and general procurement as part of the growing ITI Products line.

Infotech is officially in the App Store and Google Play Store with Mobile Inspector^®, an app for construction field data collection to supplement AASHTOWare Project^™ and Appia^®.

Infotech Consulting helps win the Urethanes trial against Dow Chemical, earning over $800 million in settlements. In an era of conservative antitrust law, this case continues to build Infotech’s reputation for providing winning analyses in antitrust class action cases.

The company launches Doc Express^® for paperless contracting plus rolls out a new corporate logo and a series of product logos to brand the ITI Products suite. The company also launches plans to build a new corporate headquarters in Celebration Pointe.

Infotech is named Overall Large Business of the Year by the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce. Meanwhile, Bid Express^® celebrates over $1 trillion in submitted bids without a single bid lost.

Infotech announces new leadership for day-to-day operations. Will McClave is named President of Systems in April 2016 and Dr. Jamie McClave Baldwin is named President of Consulting in February 2017.

Infotech turns 40 with a lot to celebrate. About 200 employees move into the new corporate headquarters, the company’s first owned building, in the Celebration Pointe development. The company reorganizes into two core businesses: Infotech Systems and Infotech Consulting.

Infotech receives LEED Gold certification for its headquarters, becoming the first private company in Gainesville to earn this award. Infotech joins only the University of Florida and City of Gainesville in this category.

Infotech, now at nearly 300 employees and growing, bridges Info and Tech together to rebrand as Infotech. A new corporate website launches to show off the new look.

Continuing the expansion of ITI Products, Infotech launches Signet^®, a new platform aimed at simplifying prompt payment compliance for vendors and agencies. Ohio is the first state to pilot the new platform, resulting in significant improvements to the payment verification process.

Infotech hosts e-Merge 2023, a new construction technology conference built for anyone in the infrastructure industry with a role in construction administration, GIS, or bidding. The first e-Merge conference is entirely virtual, with plans to expand to a physical space in the future.

Info Tech, Inc., parent company for Infotech Systems and Infotech Consulting, separates into two independent companies: Infotech and McClave + Associates. This milestone is a strategic initiative to best position both companies for long-term, targeted growth in their respective markets, which they have served for nearly five decades.

The core values present in 1977 – trust, innovation, transparency – continue to guide Infotech to this day.We’re still a family company. We still thrive on innovation. Our yearly hack-a-thons and Project: LAUNCH! continue to produce valuable new ideas that bolster our products and services.We still do right by our people. We continue to value our internal and external relationships. We give charitably, act responsibly, and trust each other without hesitation. We’re still driven by the same spirit that led two university professors with stable jobs to leave everything behind for a chance to build something of their own. Our past is on this page. Our future is in our people.Let’s keep building this road together.