High Bidder

Auctions appear periodically in the notifications in the top-left of your screen. You can choose to spend Influence points to bid on whatever the prize is for each auction; resources or exotics.

For this, you must win 10 auctions in a single game - so a longer match will help you have the time for enough auctions for you to pop up and to actually win them.

Note that to win, sometimes the winning bid is large - e.g. 14 influence points for 5 exotics - so it may be difficult in early-mid game to balance resource points needs for this vs what you also need for levelling up minor faction rep.

You will lose whatever influence points you bid whether you win or lose the auction.

I.e. leave it to late game on any larger game, once you're finished dealing with the minor factions then just wait until your influence points are full and max out your bid on every auction that appears.