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A presolicitation conference is one technique used to conduct market research
true
Micro-purchases may also be used for certain contingency operations or defense for certain contingency operations or defense against or recover from attacks. What is the threshold for contracts awarded & performed inside the US and outside the US?
$15,000 inside US and $30,000 outside US. FAR 13.3
Third-Party Draft does not exceed
$2,500. FAR 13.305
When using the simplified acquisition methods for commercial items, acquisitions do not exceed
$6.5 million. FAR 13
You have a requirement to purchase a Global Positioning System for an elite military unit. Due to the mission requirements, the GPS must be a rugged design and able to withstand extreme environmental conditions. Market research shows there are no commercially developed or Government developed systems that meet both of these requirements. This type of item is a:
(Non )Wrong
Market research shall be conducted:
(Wrong) Before soliciting offers for acquisitions with an estimated value less than the simplified acquisition threshold when adequate information is not available and the circumstances justify its cost.
You have a request to purchase 1,500 commercially available sheds, one for each family housing unit. Each shed will cost $1,500 (total of $2.25 million).
(Wrong) Simplified acquisition procedures cannot be used
Steve wants to buy eight five-shelf bookcases for his staff's new office space. The staff will be moving to their new location in 3 months. His existing office space will be occupied by another office and the existing bookcases will remain there. Market research has indicated that: - Federal Prison Industries has a delivery date of 6 months after the receipt of the order. They have a five-shelf bookcase for $139. - NIB/NISH (Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled) does not manufacture bookcases. - Scissors and Tape, Inc., a commercial source, can deliver 2 months after the receipt of order. They have a five-shelf bookcase for $255. - Furniture U.S.A., also a commercial source, can deliver 3 days after the receipt of order. They have a five-shelf bookcase for $145. What action should you take?
(Wrong) Try to get the staff move delayed so the purchase can be made from Federal Prison Industries. Purchase from furniture USA
A contract option may be exercised:
Only if the contractor agrees.
If a commercial item cannot be found to satisfy the Government requirement, the Government should, as the next step:
Determine if a non-developmental Island is available to meet the government requirement
Why are oral solicitations not normally used for requirements exceeding $25,000?
A GPE notice is required for requirements exceeding $25,000, unless exempt.
The contracting officer can terminate a commercial purchase order for cause
All choices are correct.
Which of the following are acceptable techniques for conducting market research?
All techniques listed are acceptable.
A non-developmental item is:
Any previously developed item used exclusively for governmental purposes.
In order to use simplified acquisition procedures (SAP), the aggregate value of the acquisition and all its options:
CANNOT exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, except for certain commercial items.
The preferred type of item to satisfy agency needs
Commercial item
There is a requirement to purchase recreational equipment for base playgrounds. Market research has determined that there is a large variety of play equipment available to the general public from many manufacturers. This type of item is a:
Commercial item
What should be the last source to consider when trying to fulfill a requirement?
Commercial sources
In acquisitions for commercial items, the terms of an express warranty should be
Consistent with customary commercial practice.
An oral solicitation may be used for:
Construction less than $2,000.
Determine if a requirement can be satisfied by purchasing a commercial or non-commercial item
Determine if a non-develop item is available to meet the government requirement
Acquisitions for supplies and services exceeding $3,500, but not exceeding $150,000, are automatically reserved exclusively for small business concerns unless the contracting officer
Determines that they will be unable to obtain two or more offers from small businesses that are competitive in terms of market price, quality, and delivery
Which type of item is LEAST preferred for satisfying Government requirements?
Developmental item
You have a requirement to purchase military transport vehicles that can travel over rough terrain. Market research has shown that there are no commercially developed or Government developed items that satisfy the terrain requirements. This type of item is a:
Developmental item
You have a requirement to purchase military transport vehicles that can travel over rough terrain. Market research has shown that there are no commercially developed or Government developed items that satisfy the terrain requirements. This type of item is a: [Determine if a requirement can be satisfied by purchasing a commercial or non-developmental item. (Noncommercial Items)]
Developmental item
What is the preferred method of solicitation when conducting simplified acquisitions over the micro-purchase threshold?
Electronic Commerce
Which method of purchase is most appropriate for requirements exceeding the micro-purchase threshold?
Electronic Commerce
What is the preferred method of solicitation for requirements over the micro-purchase threshold?
Electronic commerce
Fulfilling repetitive needs for supplies may best be satisfied by:
Establishing blanket purchase agreements
Requirements that cannot be met by a required source of supplies or services and are expected to ___________ are automatically reserved exclusively for small businesses.
Exceed $3,500, but not exceed $150,000
You have a requirement for ship repair that will require a unique welding technique. You only know of a few firms that have performed this technique and selecting an inexperienced contractor could be disastrous. As such, you should primarily consider evaluating offerors'
Experience
The required sources of supplies and services can be found in:
FAR Part 8
The priority for required sources of supplies is: Agency inventories, excess from other agencies,
Federal Prison Industries, Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, governmental wholesale supply sources, commercial sources.
Implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose means that an item is:
Fit for use for the particular purpose for which the Government will use the item.
The contracting officer can only terminate a purchase order for convenience:
If the contractor fails to comply with any contract terms and conditions
What is the public announcement requirement for micro-purchases?
No formal announcement is required
What is the public announcement requirement for micro-purchases?
No formal announcement is required.
You have been requested to procure custodial services for your installation. Your market research has indicated that: - A Nonprofit Agency Employing People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled can provide the custodial services for $95,000. - Federal Prison Industries can provide the custodial services for $93,000. - R-Clean can provide the custodial services for $92,500 and has outstanding past performance. - Rub-A-Scrub can provide the custodial services for $91,500 and has satisfactory past performance. Who must receive the award?
Nonprofit Agency Employing People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
You have been requested to buy 100 hospital beds for a humanitarian effort in Pedonia. The beds need to be delivered within the next 30 days so they can be airlifted to Pedonia via military transport. Your research has indicated that: - NIB/NISH does not supply beds. - Federal Prison Industries can deliver the beds in 45 days. The price per bed is $250. - A-Med, Inc. can deliver the beds in 15 days at a price of $225 per bed. - The Army hospital on post, which has been closed, will have 150 suitable excess beds in 21 days. Based upon this information, you should:
Obtain the beds from the Army hospital inventory.
When making a commercial purchase, you may conduct an in-process inspection:
Only if consistent with customary commercial practice.
Normally, purchases using Imprest fund or third-party drafts should be placed how and without solicitating competition if prices are considered reasonable?
Orally. FAR 13.305
You have a requirement to buy janitorial services for your facility. There has been a history of performance and customer service problems with the present and past contractors. Your evaluation criteria for the follow-on solicitation should contain a factor for:
Past performance
You have a one-time requirement for construction of a sidewalk between two buildings. The estimated cost is $10,000. What is the preferred method of purchase?
Purchase order
You have a requirement to buy 10 commercially available Doppler weather systems for 10 aircraft. The total estimated cost is $135,000. What is the preferred method of purchase?
Purchase order
You have a requirement to purchase drug testing services for transportation employees. The estimated dollar amount for this testing is $75,000. What is the preferred method of purchase?
Purchase order
If market research indicates a commercial or non-developmental item might not be available to satisfy agency needs:
Revaluate the need and determine whether
The Director of Training for the installation has a request to purchase 25 televisions and 25 DVD recorders for the new training facility that will open next month. Each television will cost approximately $525, and each DVD recorder about $300.
SAP can be used.
You have a request to buy 30 units of commercially available machining equipment. Each unit will cost approximately $300,000
SAP cannot be used.
A multipurpose pocket-sized purchase order form designed primarily for on-the-spot, over-the-counter purchases is a
SF 44 Purchase Order-Invoice-Voucher. FAR 13.3
What required source has priority for services?
Services which are on the Procurement List maintained by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled.
The simplified acquisition methods should be used for all purchases of supplies or services not exceeding the
Simplified Acquisition Threshold. FAR 13
Do you have a requirement for telecommunications components a single telecommunication manufacture provides all of these components to the general public disturbance cost of these components is $145,000
Simplified acquisition procedures can be used
The Director of Training for the installation has a request to purchase 25 televisions and 25 DVD recorders for the new training facility that will open next month. Each television will cost approximately $525, and each DVD recorder about $150
Simplified acquisition procedures can be used
You have a requirement for specific telecommunications components. A single telecommunications manufacturer provides these components to the general public. The estimated cost of these components is $145,000.
Simplified acquisition procedures can be used.
You have a requirement to buy a large commercially available, prefabricated wash rack for the installation. The catalog price is $102,000.
Simplified acquisition procedures can be used.
Your base commander wants 25 employees in the personnel department to attend a 1-day time-management seminar. The cost per employee will be $75 each. What is the preferred method of purchase?
The Government wide commercial purchase card
A training facility needs to purchase 50 binders from a local office supply store. The price for the binders is $20 each. What is the preferred method of purchase?
The Governmentwide commercial purchase card
The public works department at your Federal facility needs to buy repair parts for a water fountain in the building. The parts will cost about $100 and can be bought at Nuts-n-Bolts Hardware. Which method of purchase is preferred?
The Governmentwide commercial purchase card
What method of purchase is preferred to purchase 10 computer mouse pads, at $3.95 each?
The Governmentwide commercial purchase card
An oral solicitation may be used for:
The acquisition does not exceed the SAT ; • Oral solicitation is more efficient than soliciting through available electronic commerce alternatives; and • A synopsis is not required or an exception applies. • This may rule out oral solicitations for procurements above $25,000 You must establish and maintain records forfor oral price quotations so you can demonstrate the propriety of placing the order at the price paid with the supplier concerned
You may cancel a unilateral purchase order if
The contractor accepts the cancellation and does not claim costs were incurred from beginning performance.
You should use SAP when
The estimated value of the requirement is equal to or less than the SAT
You should use SAP when:
The estimated value of the requirement is equal to or less than the SAT.
If a solicitation states that evaluation of quotes will be inclusive of option years, it means:
The evaluated price includes the base period and all option periods
Which of the following should not affect how market research is performed?
The number of people in the contracting office
An offeror's experience as an evaluation factor consists primarily of
Their history of completing similar contracts and quality of their performance.
An offeror's experience as an evaluation factor consists primarily of:
Their history of completing similar contracts and quality of their performance.
Market research is performed:
To determine if commercial or non-developmental items will satisfy the need
The status information contained in the System for Award Management (SAM) and additional vendor files maintained by the contracting office, if any, may be used as the basis to ensure that small business concerns are provided the maximum practicable opportunities to respond to solicitations issued using simplified acquisition procedures.
True
The use of required sources of supplies or services takes presidents over do use a simplified acquisition procedures
True
Micro-purchases are:
Unrestricted
Evaluation factors such as price and past performance are:
Used to evaluate responses to a solicitation.
When should electronic commerce be used as a method of solicitation?
Whenever cost-effective and practicable.
When buying a commercial item, an in-process inspection of the product need not be consistent with commercial practice.
Wrong- True
An offeror's past performance as an evaluation factor consists of:
Wrong—-All choices are examples of past performance
When no other exceptions apply, is a Government Point of Entry (GPE) synopsis required for purchases estimated to exceed $25,000 but not to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold?
Yes
Third-Party Draft means
an agency bank draft, similar to a check that is used to acquire and to pay for supplies & services. FAR 13.305
Generally, each acquisition of supplies or services is reserved exclusively for small business concerns and shall be set aside if the anticipated dollar value
exceeding $3,000 and not exceeding $150,000. FAR 13
By soliciting two sources under SAP, you have satisfied the requirement to obtain competition to the maximum extent practicable.
false
BPAs may be established with more than one supplier for supplies or services of the same type to provide
maximum practicable competition; a single firm from which numerous individual purchases at or below the SAT will likely be made in a given period; or FSS contractors. FAR 13.303
You have a requirement to purchase equipment that was previously developed at Government expense and sold exclusively to the military. This type of item is:
non developmental
When use simplified acquisition methods, some considerations are
promote competition to the maximum extent practicable; establish reasonable deadlines for submission of responses to solicitations; consider all quotations or offers that are received on time, and; use innovative approaches to the maximum extent practicable. FAR 13
BPAs are appropriate when
requirements exist for a wide variety of items; there is a need to provide commercial sources of supply for one or more offices in a given area; writing numerous POs; there is no existing requirements contract for the same supply or service. FAR 13.303
What is the government wide commercial purchase card authorized to pay for?
supplies, services, or construction. FAR 13.301
BPAs include a description of
the agreement, the extent of obligation, pricing, purchase limitations, notice of individuals authorized to place order, delivery tickets, & invoices. FAR 13.303
SF 44 Purchase Order-Invoice-Voucher may be used when
the amount of purchase is at or below the micro-purchase: the supplies or services are immediately available; 1 delivery & 1 payment will be made; its use is determined to be more economical & efficient than SAP. FAR 13.3
The status information contained in the System for Award Management (SAM) and additional vendor files maintained by the contracting office, if any, may be used as the basis to ensure that small business concerns are provided the maximum practicable opportunities to respond to solicitations issued using simplified acquisition procedures.
true
The use of required sources of supplies or services takes precedence over the use of simplified acquisition procedures.
true
synopsis and a solicitation may be combined when acquiring commercial items
true
When acquiring products/services through the simplified acquisition methods, a contract officer must clearly articulate the basis
upon which the award will be made. FAR 13.1
