Welcome to Tier 1 of the PennDOT Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) for Contractors! This guide will help you navigate the resources available on ProRank Academy (PRA) and help you get to Tier 2 of the MPP Construction Cohort. Initially, only your PRA profile will have access to the MPP Rooms available to your firm. Suppose you would like others in your organization to access the MPP Rooms available to your firm on PRA. In that case, you must use the “multi-account feature” (found as the third tab in your profile menu) to allow others to view the MPP rooms using your PRA profile. This feature is explained further below.
Understanding Your Role as a Tier 1 Protégé
As a Tier 1 Protégé in the construction cohort, you are not yet registered or “Business Partner Registered” (BPR) on PennDOT’s Engineering and Construction Management System (ECMS).
Our goal in Tier 1 is to help you become Business Partner Registered as a Contractor on ECMS. To do business with PennDOT, you must become a Registered Business Partner. ECMS Business Partner registration is the first step in the process that provides the ability to perform services for PennDOT.
Understanding Group Rooms
Group rooms or “rooms” provide PRA Users with consolidated information on a specific subject or objective. Each of the PennDOT MPP cohorts and their tiers has its respective rooms on PRA, consolidating the relevant information for that MPP cohort tier. Each MPP participant will have access to various MPP rooms that may change as the participant moves through the program.