Materials Acceptance and Certification System
Posted December 22, 2022 – MAC is the database for tracking the placement of permanent APL products on the FDOT system in place of the Pay Item Tracking System (PTS) beginning 01/01/2023. See The Sample Life Cycle Material Specific Sample
Information section below for instructions and videos. The same personnel who entered the products into PTS will be responsible for processing APL tracking samples in MAC. If you have questions about the MAC sample life cycle process, contact
a District Application Coordinator or system administrator. If you have questions about a product’s acceptability, review the Product Application History and Tracking system (PATH) https://fdotwp1.dot.state.fl.us/ApprovedProductList/Specifications.
If you still have questions, Contact the Product Evaluation Office. Product Evaluation Office contact information can be found by selecting the Help option on any screen in PATH. MAC personnel cannot provide guidance on product specific acceptability.
A list of MAC acronyms.
FDOT employees and non-FDOT users who need access to MAC and other FDOT applications that require an FDOT User ID account.
Users who do not need to access any other FDOT applications requiring an FDOT User ID account.
How to update an existing ISA account for a change in email, name, company name, phone number or challenge question
How to Log into MAC with an FDOT user id or ISA
How to grant access to another company.
How to acknowledge access granted to your company.
This form is to add a new company, lab or production facility into MAC.
This link is to the MAC training environment. It is intended to be used when users participate in hands on or web-based training and can also be used after attending training to practice skills learned in the training session before trying them in the production environment.
Guidelines for QC data entry to find ERS related information from plans for plotting and PAs for reviewing plots. NOTE: This document is a guide for extracting the needed data to create plots and review plots. It does not supersede any requirements of the actual contract documents on the project.
How to add existing users as a company profile manager to maintain company gauges, how to add update and delete company gauges and calibration data.
ERS Sample and Test Entry and Submission for field density, stabilizing mixing depth and base thickness samples.
Introductory information about sampling and testing on ERS Projects
How to create a field density sample on an ESB Logbook
How to create a field density on a Drainage Logbook
How to navigate from the ERS screen to the Sample screen and from the Sample screen to the ERS screen
Information on samples taken for thick lift approval for embankment, base, drainage and retaining walls
How to process samples that do not complete the sample life cycle on the ERS Project screen from the Sample screen
The impact of incomplete proctor samples on field density samples
A summary of common situations that do not follow the normal sample life cycle, for example IV samples
How to create a QC stabilizing mixing depth sample
How to create a QC base thickness sample
How the VT company enters the TIN of the verification technician who witnessed a stabilizing mixing depth or base thickness sample
How QC Data Reviewer submits a Witnessed By Sample to FDOT after VT company enters Witnessed By TIN
How to make sample data corrections, test corrections or both on samples that have been Returned for Corrections by the PA
Summary of the notifications related to ERS samples and Witnessed By functions.
How to number ERS samples for sample tracking and comparison packages.
How to review initial plot data for ESB logbooks.
How to review initial plot data for Drainage logbooks.
How to review field density sample before finalization, how to return incorrect samples for corrections and how to finalize them.
How to create a field density comparison package, how to add resolutions samples for non-comparisons, how to designate when resolution is not performed and how to create incomplete comparison packages.
General Instructions all users should review
How MAC notifications work, types of MAC notifications
How to navigate to the My Subscriptions screen and subscribe, apply filters or unsubscribe
How to navigate to the Dashboard, acknowledge pending notifications and search all notifications
Instructions on MAC filtering for Company Profile Managers Reviewers and access notifications
Instructions on MAC filtering for Data Reviewers and sample notifications
Instructions on MAC filtering for Facility Profile Managers Reviewers and facility and product status notifications
Instructions on MAC filtering for Lab Managers Reviewers lab profile and sample notifications
Instructions on MAC filtering for the Contractor QC Manager listed on the Contractor QC Plan (CQCP) in MAC
PMCL notification and review
Sample notifications for program samples for FDOT Verifiers
MC Review / MAR and PMCLs for RE, DBE, DCE, DMRE, DOC and DOM
DMO Asphalt, SMO Asphalt, DMO Concrete, SMO Concrete
Mix Design Notifications for Mix Design Submitters and Mix Design Reviewers
Notification Filters for Mix Design Submitters, Mix Design Reviewers, and Materials Office Mix Design users
Notifications for Material Program Management and samples
CQCP, MC Review / MAR, Nonstandard JGS and Samples
PA role users opt in and filter examples
Creating and Initiating the Mix Design
Entering the Test Data
Revising a Mix Design
Creating a Mix Design and Entering Test Data
Revising an Existing Mix Design
A spreadsheet summarizing MAC materials, Program MAC Specs and APL Specs to assist QC data entry and Project Administrators in creating and reviewing Non-standard JGS grouped by major material category, such as Soils, Drainage, Concrete, Guardrail, etc.
How to enter APL tracking sample test results, review the sample and submit it to FDOT
How to enter APL tracking sample test results, review the sample and submit it to FDOT
This document provides a crosswalk for Earthwork sampling and testing and targets and limits to meet the specification requirements as well as general specification and construction notes. This document depicts MAC design and doesn't supersede any requirements of the actual contract documents on the project.
Notes regarding MAC samples on Laser Profiling for Ride Acceptance:
- The roadway should be ready, clean, open to traffic, and free of any construction equipment, etc. at the time of testing.
- The laser profiling MAC login request should be submitted at least 2 weeks prior to testing.
Notes regarding MAC samples on Laser Profiling for Ride Acceptance:
- The roadway should be ready, clean, open to traffic, and free of any construction equipment, etc. at the time of testing.
- The laser profiling MAC login request should be submitted at least 2 weeks prior to testing.
This optional training information provides detailed background information for users with the PA role. With the MAC implementation, responsibilities are being transferred to the PA. This video is designed to provide PAs who are unfamiliar with materials acceptance with the basic concepts
This document describes the MAC functions for the PA review of the standard JGS and non-standard JGS in MAC. Additional information for reviewing non-standard JGS entries for Lump Sum contracts to ensure contract compliance with Specifications Section can be found in the PA Instructions for LS JGS.
This document details the PA review of the non-standard JGS to ensure entries for Lump Sum contracts are compliant with Specifications Section 105.
No longer applies. See above for APL & BABA tracking instructions. Instructions for PA & MC Reviewers for APL & BABA will be posted in the near future.