NCMA Test #7

1. What term is described by the following: The process by which efforts of all personnel responsible for an acquisition are coordinated and integrated through a comprehensive plan for fulfilling the agency need in a timely manner at a reasonable cost. It includes developing the overall strategy for managing the acquisition.

Market Research

Acquisition Central

Acquisition Plan

Acquisition Program

2. Government contracts personnel may use liquidated damages clauses only when

Time for delivery or performance is critical.

Time for delivery is not essential.

The order is for a Department of Defense Agency.

It is the first Government contract received by a contractor.

3. Performance-based contracts

Use measurable performance standards and quality assurance surveillance plans.

Specify procedures for methods of work and type of materials to be used.

Describe the requirements in terms of costs incurred rather than the methods of performance of the work.

Can only be used in conjunction with Government specifications.

4. Who is generally responsible for determining a subcontractor's responsibility?

The prime contractor.

The Procuring Contracting Officer.

The Administrative Contracting Officer.

The Preaward Survey Official.

5. When the time of delivery or timely performance is so important that the Government may reasonably expect to suffer damage if the delivery or performance is delinquent; and the extent or amount of such damage would be difficult or impossible to estimate accurately or prove, then what type of assessment may occur?

Incentive penalties.

Liquidated damages.

Profit readjustments.

Delivery recoupments

6. Solicitations for commercial items shall require offerors to offer the Government

. an extended warranty.

Warranties that exceed those offered to the general public.

The same warranty terms offered to the general public.

Warranties tailored to the Government's specific needs.

7. The Contract Disputes Act covers

A. claims by a contractor against the Government involving fraud.

Claims by a contractor against the Government relating to a contract.

Challenges to procurement contract award procedures.

Non-appropriated fund contracts.

8. During source selection it is an acceptable practice to:

Reveal an offeror's price without that offeror's permission.

Inform an offeror that its price is considered too high.

Reveal the names of individuals providing reference information about an offeror.

Favor one offeror over another.

9. The government's preferred remedy when terminating a contract for a commercial item for cause will be

To acquire similar items from another contractor and to charge the defaulted contractor with any excess reprocurement costs.

To acquire similar items from a subcontractor and to charge the defaulted contractor with any excess reprocurement costs.

To acquire similar items from another contractor and to ask the new contractor to absorb any excess reprocurement costs.

To cancel the requirement.

10. These are limited exchanges between the Government and offerors, that may occur when award without discussions is contemplated:

Negotiations

Clarifications

Communications

Interchanges

11. _______________ contracts are characterized by the employer-employee relationship it creates between the Government and the contractor's personnel.

A. Advisory and Assistance Service

Personal service

Non-personal service

Performance Based Service

12. Performance-based acquisition offers __________, which can be used to adjust payment to reflect the degree of performance success and to motivate superior performance.

Incentives

Measurable performance standards

Performance rubric

Quality assurance plans

13. Which response best describes a letter contract?

Normally a brief, written preliminary contractual instrument that authorizes a contractor to begin performance immediately.

Normally a detailed, extensively written contractual instrument that authorizes a contractor to begin performance immediately.

Normally a detailed, extensively written firm fixed priced contractual instrument that authorizes a contractor to begin performance immediately.

Normally a brief, written preliminary contractual instrument that authorizes a contractor to begin performance once pricing data is submitted.

14. The CO shall review the contractor's request for overtime. CO approval is required for which of the following contract types(s):

Time and Material and Labor Hour Contracts b. Cost Reimbursable Contracts

Cost Reimbursable Contracts

Fixed Price Contracts

Incentive and Award Fee Contracts

15. A special form of written approval by an authorized official that is required by statute or regulation as a prerequisite to taking certain contract actions is called

Signature authority

Determination and Findings

Unilateral contract approval

Contract modification

16. Which of the following is NOT a reason to contract for Advisory and Assistance services?

Obtain outside points of view to avoid too limited judgment on critical issues.

Obtain work of a policy, decision-making, or managerial nature which is the direct responsibility of agency officials

Ensure the more efficient or effective operation of managerial or hardware systems.

Support and improve the operation of organizations.

17. In terms of being a responsible government contractor, any prime contractor that provides Government property to a subcontractor

Is still responsible for the property in accordance with the terms of the prime contract.

Is responsible only for loss due to gross negligence.

Remains responsible only for Government property valued at more than $100,000.

18. A mistake detected after award may be corrected as long as it does not

Create an appearance of favoritism.

Exceed that of the next lowest acceptable bid under the original invitation for bids.

Exceed the average bid of the three lowest bidders.

Exceed that of the next lowest acceptable bidder under the original invitation for bids by more than 10%.

19. Which of the following is NOT required to be revealed during a post award debriefing?

Evaluation of the unsuccessful offeror's proposal.

Ranking of all offerors.

Evaluated technical score of the successful offeror.

Evaluated price of all offerors.

20. The process of independently reviewing and evaluating specific elements of each offeror's proposed cost estimate to determine whether the estimated proposed cost elements are realistic for the work to be preformed is done when performing:

Cost Analysis

Price Analysis

Price Realism Analysis

Cost Realism Analysis

21. When deciding how to measure and manage performance, the contracting officer (CO) should consider all of the following, EXCEPT:

Selecting only a few meaningful measures to judge success

Relying upon commercial quality standards

Vendor satisfaction

The inclusion of contractual language for negotiated changes to the metrics and measures

22. A system whereby the contracting officer receives authorization from a fiscal and accounting officer to obligate funds on purchase documents against a specified lump sum of funds reserved for the purpose for a specified period of time rather than obtaining individual obligation authority on each purchase document is

Bulk funding.

Long lead funding.

A charge account.

A blanket purchase agreement (BPA).

23. Options for increased quantities of supplies/services may NOT be expressed in terms of

A range of quantities for various line items.

Increase in specific line items.

Additional numbered line items.

Percentage of specific line items.

24. The contracting officer may accept proposal revisions during

Clarifications.

Communications to establish the competitive range.

Discussions.

Fact finding.

25. With respect to proposal evaluations, solicitations for simplified acquisitions are

Not required to have evaluation factors.

Not required to state the relative importance of each evaluation factor and subfactor.

Required to list significant subfactors.

Required to state the relative importance of each evaluation factor and subfactor.