How to allow respondents to submit multiple times (with Alternative Submissions)

Owned by Asfand Khan
Last updated: Dec 14, 2023

Sometimes it is beneficial to allow respondents to tender multiple times with clever ideas that the evaluation team hadn't forseen.  360 refers to these as "Alternative Submissions" and allows them after a "Conforming Submission" has been submitted.

The Alternative Submission feature is available as an ADCOM extension.

Step-by-step guide

To enable the alternative submissions feature, the system setting must be turned on first:

  1. Sign-in to https://360users.apetsoftware.com.au/ as a Boss user
  2. From the main-menu, click Settings
  3. Click Request Configuration Rules & New Request Defaults
  4. Expand the Other Options section
  5. Select Yes for the Allow alternate submissions option
  6. Click Save

At this point, the request managers can configure the requests to allow respondents to submit alternative submissions.

To create a new alternative submission type request:

  1. Sign-in to https://360users.apetsoftware.com.au/ as a Request Manager
  2. Follow the steps in How to create a new request (e.g. for tender) in the 360 internal portal to create a request
  3. While configuring the request, select Yes for Allow Alternative Submissions? option
    1. Choose either for the alternative submission type:
      • Integrated (additional submission) - the entire conforming submission is copied, edited, and assessed as if it were another company's submission
      • Departure (free text to describe alternative) - where only a description of the alternative is required (all scoring is on the departure - 100%)

    2. Specify the Alternative Submissions Limit

      The Alternate Submissions are not supported for Standard Hierarchical Requests.
      If the Alternate submissions limit is set to '0' or left blank, the system will consider it as unlimited.
  4. Click Add/Update

Once published, the respondents will be able to submit multiple responses.


For all alternative submissions, the respondent name will end with "(alt #.#); the first number will be the Request ID and the second number will be the alternative submission count that provider. e.g.

  • Conforming Submission = “ SHARROWLANE PTY LTD”
  • Alternative 1 = “SHARROWLANE PTY LTD (alt 12345.1)”
  • Alternative 2 = “SHARROWLANE PTY LTD (alt 12345.2)”



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