Line Weighting vs. Bid Factor Weighting

You can set two types of weighting on a line item:

• The bid factor weighting, meaning how important the bid factor is to an overall event.

  Set bid factor weightings if you want to factor the weightings into the bid scoring.

• The line item weighting, meaning how important that specific item or service is to the overall event.

  If you do not set specific line weightings, the lines are weighted equally.

For example, in an event to purchase central processing units (CPUs), monitors, and keyboards, the CPUs might be more important to you than the keyboards. You weight the line item for the CPUs at 50 percent, the monitors at 30 percent, and the keyboards at 20 percent.

The following table uses this example. The bidder scores high on bid factors for the line items that have a low line weight. After line weighting is calculated, the bidder's per-line scores decrease:

Example Score with Bid Factor Weightings Calculated	Line Weight	Final Score for Each Line Item
CPU = score of 80	50 percent	40 (80 * 50 percent)
Monitor = score of 90	30 percent	27 (90 * 30 percent)
Keyboards = score of 100	20 percent	20 (100 * 20 percent)
		87 (Total combined line score)