Manual Bidding

BidPlus provides you with the ability to review and select your Lines by hand as opposed to having the program select them automatically. By doing your manual bidding with the program, you still have the advantage of additional information, such as instant ID information, your holiday pay and paycheck, as well as the ability to manage and edit the Lines that you do select. Additionally, when you accomplish your Manual Bidding through BidPlus, you are still able to use the program to automatically submit your bids to the Unimatic LOFBID .

Immediately below is an explanation of how Manual Bidding works. Click here for a step by step example of Manual Bidding.

Please be aware, there is no "bid card" per se for you to fill out and submit your bids if those selections were accomplished outside of the program.

To begin, please start on the Criteria Selection screen. Next, click on the View menu at the top, and then choose Unselected Lines.

You are now presented with the Unselected Lines screen.

The Unselected Lines screen is nearly identical to the Review and Edit screen. These are all of the Lines in your bid package including language, XSC, and Reserve. There is no Bid Bank and no Bid position displayed like in the Review and Edit screen because these Lines have not yet been selected. So they are not yet part of a Bank, and consequently they are not yet part of the bid.

The screen is divided into 3 windows. The top window contains all of the Line numbers for the bid package. The Line numbers are in numerical order. The first Line number is automatically highlighted. When a Line number is highlighted in the top window, that LOF is displayed in its entirety in the middle window.

The IDs in the LOF are displayed just as you are accustomed to seeing them. The first ID is highlighted in red by default, and that ID is displayed in its entirety in the bottom window. To view another ID in the LOF, simply click on it. It too will be displayed in the bottom window.

The LOF display in the middle window also contains additional information such as (from left to right): Days Off (16), Credit/Blk (69.18/69.18), #F/A (3),  Hol$ (Holiday Pay - $147.02), O/L-> (Overlap Hours - 0.00), Est. Pay: (Estimated Paycheck - 3574.15)

Manual Bidding is best accomplished by using the Cut and Paste technique. It is suggested that you use the repetitive cut method, which involves using the Direction Arrows on your keyboard and the 'Enter' key. This is the preferred method for Manual Bidding.

Cutting

Simply use the Direction Arrows on your keyboard to move through the Line numbers. Each time a desired Line number has been highlighted, simply hit the Enter key and cut it out. Then use the direction arrows to move on to the next desired Line number and repeat. Once all of the desired Line numbers have been cut out, they can then be pasted all at one time into a Bank.

Pasting

Pasting is the ability to replace a Line that was previously cut. Pasting requires that you identify the new location, or target. This is done by highlighting a Line number or Bank. If  a Line number on the  Review and Edit screen is highlighted, even in a different Bank, then any cut Lines will be pasted immediately in front of that highlighted Line number.

BidPlus also allows you to return to the  Criteria Selection screen, and then paste a cut LOF, or group of cut LOFs, directly into a Bank. Again, the highlighted Bank will be the target. The pasted LOFs will be placed in front of any pre-existing Lines in that Bank.

There are 2 methods used to initiate the paste operation. One is the standard Windows keyboard method of Ctrl+V. With this method, once you have identified and highlighted your target, you then hold the Ctrl key down, and while holding it down, you hit the letter 'V'. This action will paste any cut lines in front of the target Line number, or into the target Bank.

The other method for pasting is to use the Paste button in the button bar. Clicking on it will likewise paste your cut Lines.

Here Is an Example Of The Manual Bidding Process

To begin, use the Direction Arrows on your keyboard and move until you find a desired Line.

Now that we have found the Line we want (18), hit the Enter Key to cut it out.

Notice that Line 18 is now gone. It has been cut out and is waiting to be pasted. We can cut out a few more Lines before pasting them all at once. Now let's move to the next desired Line. (30)

Hit the Enter key to cut Line 30 out.

Use the Direction Arrow ( or point and click) and find the next Line. (1006)

Hit Enter to cut Line 1006 out.

One more time. Find the last desired Line. (2401)

Hit Enter to cut Line 2401 out.

There are now 4 Lines cut out, 18, 30, 1006, & 2401, and waiting to be pasted. Now click on the 'Poof' button and return to the Criteria Selection window.

Since this is the beginning of the Manual Bid process, then you will see only one Bank, and it is empty.

Now click on the Paste button to paste the 4 cut Line Numbers...

...and you will see that the Bank now contains the 4 paste Lines.

Now, to view the 4 Lines, either double click directly on the Bank itself, or click on the View button at the bottom.

You are now presented with the Review and Edit screen of Bank 1 displaying the 4 Lines that we cut and pasted.

At this point, you can click the 'Poof' button to return to Criteria Selection screen...

...then click on the 'Add button at the bottom...

...which will create a new empty Bank so that you can continue the process.

Or you can position bid , or add reserve , or add relief , or procede to upload your bids to LOFBID .

One thing to consider, why look through all of the Lines first? Once you understand how the automatic selection process works, you can do a search for the Lines containing the general criteria. Then use the Manual Bidding technique from one of the Banks, which will be much smaller then going through all of the Unselected Lines, which is basically the entire bid package.

To view your printing options, you must be on either the Unselected Lines screen, or on the Review and Edit screen. Click on the Printer button in the button bar.

To close this window and return to the Criteria Selection screen, click on the 'Poof' button in the button bar.

Be sure to review the topic covering  Viewing All IDs in the Bid Package.