Activating and deactivating alternates

In addition to the base bid, your bid can contain multiple alternates.

You might want to review your bid to identify alternates that are not contributing to the bid totals. For these alternates, you must deactivate the alternate so that it does not contribute to the overall project bid. You can always re-activate the alternate, at which time the totals for that alternate will contribute to the overall project bid.

A value cannot be activated unless it's included in the project. The Base Bid is always activated.

You can activate or deactivate an alternate using one of the following options in the project's bid room:

• Select Summary Sheet and do one of the following in the navigation pane:

  • To deactivate an alternate, clear the checkbox next to it or select the ellipsis icon () and select Deactivate.
  • To activate an alternate, select the checkbox next to it or select the ellipsis icon () and select Activate.

• Select Work Breakdowns and do the following:

  1. From the list of work breakdowns, select Alternate.
  2. Select the checkbox under the Activated column for the alternate value.

     Alternatively, you can either right-click the alternate description or select the ellipsis icon () next to it, and select Deactivate or Activate.

• On the Summary Sheet, do the following:

  1. Right-click any cell on the alternate overline row or select the ellipsis icon ().
  2. Select Activate or Deactivate.

For deactivated alternates, the net and gross bid amounts are zero, and their background on the Summary Sheet appears gray.

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