Reduced Lower Limit (RLL)

Selecting the Reduced Lower Limit checkbox when adding a bid group indicates that you wish to bid for a lower block. This means that you are willing to take a block below the minimum credit window without receiving a Reserve line. The PBS Scheduler will attempt to award you an RLL pairing block only if it cannot award you a normal pairing block. This restriction makes it important that your RLL bid group is below all regular Pairings bid groups. The PBS Bidder validates your bid when you submit it, this confirms that an RLL bid group is placed after an unconditional Pairings bid group. This ensures that the PBS Scheduler has attempted everything it can before attempting to award you an RLL pairings block.

For more information, see Bid Validation.

Reduced Lower Limit Details

You will not be awarded an RLL block if:

1 you did not bid for it - the Scheduler cannot force an RLL block on a bidder

2 the Scheduler can build you a legal Pairing block

3 the maximum number of awarded RLL blocks has been reached or if you are below the seniority cutoff - administrators set the number of bidders that can be awarded an RLL block and the seniority cutoff

4 you are a reduced block bidder

RLL Restrictions - Set Condition

5 you are not allowed to add Set Condition Maximum Credit and Set Condition minimum Credit bid preferences to an RLL bid group

Set Condition Maximum Credit and Set Condition minimum Credit are available options in an RLL bid Group, however, these bids are not available in the RLL bid group. You will receive and error message when you add the bid to the RLL bid group.

6 an RLL bid group must be placed below an unconditional bid group- a Reserve bid group can be placed in between, see Bids That Can Submitted and Bids That Cannot be Submitted for more information

Reasons Report

There are three messages related to the reasons report informing you why you did not receive an RLL block:

7 Maximum Reduced Lower Limit Line Reached- the maximum number of RLL lines were awarded to senior bidders

8 Not-Considered Below Reduced Lower Cutoff- you are below the RLL cutoff as defined by the administrator

9 Not-Considered Reduced Block- this means that you are defined as a reduced block bidder, reduced block bidders cannot be awarded an RLL block