CRA EXAM 11.14.23

Which of the following refers to an announcement of a federal agency's general interests?

BAA - Broad Agency Announcement

Which of the following refers to the act of submitting an offer below anticipated costs, expecting to increase the contract amount after award or receive follow-up on contracts at artificially high prices to recover losses incurred on the buy-in contract?

Buying-in

Which of the following refers to any commission, percentage, brokerage, or other fee that is contingent upon the success that a person or concern has in securing a government contract?

Contingent Fee

Allocable Costs are NOT allowable costs.

False

Which of the following would serve the purpose of inviting proposals and specifying the general terms and conditions under which the relevant award can be made?

RFP - Request for Proposal

Challenge Grant is rather popular in the fields of

arts and humanities

An Unilateral Award is most often employed:

when unsolicited proposals are receiving favorable treatment.

Contracting by sealed bidding requires the government to evaluate bids:

with discussions

A donation may refer to the transfer of equipment

with or without specifications as to the exact preferred use.

An Unilateral Award is an award that has been made by a sponsor to an organization:

without considering any competitive proposals.

The FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT (FFAMIA)/P.L. 106-107 which was enacted in:

1999

Which of the following costs can benefit the grant or contract to which they are being charged?

Allocable costs

Which of the following are costs that can be legitimately charged to a grant?

Allowable costs

Which of the following refers to those funds that have been obligated by a funding agency for a specific project?

Award

Which of the following refers to the payment made or an entitlement available in accordance with arrangements such as a wage agreement?

Benefits

A __________ employee is a person employed by a contractor and subject to the contractor's supervision and control as to time, place, and manner of performance, who neither exerts nor proposes to exert improper influence to solicit or obtain government contracts influence nor holds out as being able to obtain any government contract or contracts through improper influence.

Bona fide

Which of the following is a database listing all available federal programs?

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)

Which of the following refers to E-Business Point of Contact?

E-BIZ POC

Which of the following describes the act of conducting research administration through utilizing various types of electronic resources?

Electronic Research Administration (ERA)

Which of the following are simply funds that have been set aside for projected expenses pending actual expenditure of funds?

Encumbrance Funds

Gifts may be provided for establishing an endowment but NOT for providing direct support for existing programs.

FALSE

In order for a contractor to be awarded a federal contract, he must comply with the provisions set forth by:

FAR

is to have an acquisition system that can The overall guiding principle of satisfy customer's need yet minimize administrative overhead without sacrificing integrity, fairness, openness, and public policy objectives.

FAR

A Bona fide employee is a person employed by a contractor who is authorized to collect contingent fees.

False

A Challenge Grant is not really different from a matching grant.

False

A Cooperative Agreement is a type of award which is NOT similar to a Grant

False

A contract file would generally NOT document the basis for the acquisition and the award.

False

A project period can consist of one budget period only

False

Continuation projects are usually subjected to peer review beyond the initial project approval.

False

E-Biz POCS typically do not have the authority to grant representatives of their organization the privilege to submit grant applications.

False

ERA does not refer to conducting research administration through utilizing the Internet?

False

Federal Commons offers ALL grantees full-service grants processing across only some specific functions in the grant life cycle.

False

Federal Procurement and Federal Assistance can both be used for solely supporting a non-federal party in the conduct of a public or private program.

False

In noncompetitive negotiations, discussions may take place upon award of a new contract or task/delivery order under an existing indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract, but not on a bilateral contract modification.

False

Kickback is provided ONLY DIRECTLY to the prime contract for the purpose of improperly obtaining or rewarding favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract.

False

Only 10 U.S.C 2304 would require that the government contracting officers promote and provide for full and open competition in soliciting offers and awarding government contracts.

False

The amount of money that the recipient organization realizes from a challenge grant usually would not vary widely.

False

With Incremental Funding, spending limits can NEVER be exceeded.

False

Which of the following refers to an Internet grants management portal which serves the grantee organization community?

Federal Commons

Bequests and Gifts are basically awards that are given with

Few or no conditions

Which of the following is considered as the only official U.S. Government portal to millions of pages of government information, services, and online transactions?

FirstGov

Which of the following offers search engine that allows you to search every word of every U.S. government document?

FirstGov

When the principal purpose of the transaction is to assist, stimulate, or support a non-federal party in the conduct of a public program, the federal agency must use an assistance instrument in the form of a:

Grant or Cooperative agreement

Continuation Project (Non-Competing) is basically applicable to:

Grants and Cooperative agreements only.

Which of the following are generally considered to be restricted funds?

Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements

Which of the following web sites may be used to submit grant applications?

Grants.gov

Which of the following refers to any influence that induces or tends to induce a government employee or officer to give consideration or to act regarding a government contract on any basis other than the merits of the matter?

Improper influence

Which of the following refers to contributions or assistance in a format other than money?

In-Kind

Which of the following is a method of funding contracts which provides specific spending limits below the total estimated costs?

Incremental Funding

Which of the following refers to the rate expressed as a percentage of a base amount that is established by negotiation with the cognizant federal agency on the basis of projected costs?

Indirect Cost Rate

Which of the following correctly describes FirstGov?

It is a public-private partnership.

Which of the following correctly describes the nature of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance?

It runs primarily online.

A donation may NOT refer to the transfer of equipment, money, goods, services, property or none of the choices.

None of the choices

Benefits may NOT refer to the payment made or an entitlement available in accordance with arrangements of: wage agreement, insurance policy, public assistance program, or none of the choices?

None of the choices

Federal Commons is never intended for which of the following kinds of grantees? State governments, local governments, universities, small businesses, none of the choices

None of the choices

Which of the following is the document where you can find all terms of the award plus the obligation of funds?

Notice of Grant Award

In the context of research, which of the following is a brief description of research plans and estimated budget that is sometimes submitted for determining the interest of a particular sponsor?

Pre-proposal

Which of the following is the individual who is responsible for the conduct of research or other activities that have been described in a proposal for award?

Principal Investigator

When the principal purpose of the transaction is to purchase something for the Federal governments own benefit or direct use, the federal agency must use a:

Procurement Contract

Which of the following specifies the total time for which support of a project is programmatically approved?

Project Period (PP)

Which of the following refers to the agency administered programs that are supported by earmarked federal funds, making grants primarily to small business entities?

Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)

Which of the following refers to the grant applications and/or programs for funding those small business that are teamed up with research institutions?

Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

Contracting by negotiation would REQUIRE negotiations prior to contract award.

Sometimes true

Which of the following aims at deterring subcontractors from making payments and contractors from accepting payments for the purpose of improperly obtaining rewarding favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract or subcontract relating to a prime contract?

The Anti-Kickback Act of 1986

With a Challenge Grant

There is usually a fixed upper limit plus a challenge minimum below which no grant will be made.

Which of the following correctly describes the The FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT (FFAMIA)/P.L. 106-107?

This is the Act that requires agencies to create the Federal Commons for electronic processing of all grant programs.

The Federal Acquisition Regulations is codified in:

Title 48 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.

A Notice of Grant Award is always legally binding.

True

An equipment offered in lieu of cash is a valid example of In-Kind

True

Competitive discussions may take place either before contract award or prior to award of a task/delivery order under an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract.

True

Continuation projects normally would not compete with new project proposals.

True

The Federal Acquisition Regulations may sometimes regulate the purchasing of activities of private sector companies.

True

When a government agency issues a contract, a list of FAR provisions may be specified to apply to the contract.

True

Which of the following are funds that impose no requirements or restrictions as to their use or disposition?

Unrestricted Funds

Which of the following refers to those proposals submitted that are not in response to an RFP, RFA, or program announcement?

Unsolicited Proposals

Matching Grants would usually award:

a clearly defined amount.

With Incremental Funding, each increment is in essence:

a funding action.

Which of the following is the official definition of seal bidding?

a method of contracting that employs competitive bids, public opening bids, and awards.

A Challenge Grant is a form of grant that provides monies determined:

basing on a specific formula

Promoting and providing full and open competition in soliciting offers and awarding government contracts would normally be done through the use of:

competitive procedures

Buying-in may:

decrease competition

The FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSITANCE MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT (FFAMIA)/P.L. 106-107 is a federal law aiming at:

easing the application of financial assistance.

Bequests and Gifts are

flexible

The FAR and the relevant agency supplements have been said by the Federal courts to have the force and effect of:

law

Kickback may be in the form of:

money, fee, commission, credit, gift, gratuity

A Challenge Grant is a form of grant that provides monies in response to

monies from other sources

According to the FAR, any contract awarded other than through sealed bidding procedures is considered a:

negotiated contract

With a Continuation Project (Non-Competing), funds are typically committed:

one year at a time.

Which of the following parts of FAR contains numerous standard contract clauses and "solicitation provisions"?

part 52

In the context of research, Preliminary Proposal may be submitted:

prior to the submission of a formal proposal

With Continuation Project,

progress on the project is assessed.

Federal Commons

provides both public information and the secure processing of e-grants transactions.

Negotiations refer to exchanges, in either a competitive or sole source environment, that take place between the government and offerors, with the intent of allowing the offeror to:

revise its proposal

A Program/Project Officer is typically designated by the:

sponsor

A Program/Project Officer is officially held responsible for what aspects of a particular grant:

technical, scientific, programmatic

The effect of FAR is asserted by:

the Christine Doctrine

The difference between Federal Procurement and Federal Assistance was established in law under:

the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (PL 95-224)

Which of the following is true of a Cooperative Agreement?

the sponsor's staff will be actively involved in proposal preparation.

For seal bidding to work,

there has to be a reasonable expectation of receiving more than one sealed bid.

What is the primary purpose of the Federal Acquisition Regulations?

to provide a uniform set of policies and procedures for acquisition.