CON 1100V PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What are the five key stages of the Contracting Life Cycle?
1 - Acquisition Planning (Pre-Award)
2 - Solicitation (Pre-Award)
3 - Evaluation ( Award)
4 - Award (Award)
5 - Contract Administration (Post-Award)
Which stage includes modifications, performance, payments, and
contract closeout?
Contract Administration (Post-Award)
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The purpose of the Contracting Subway Map is to:
The purpose of the DAU Contracting Subway Map is to provide the
user with a generalized order of events in the acquisition
contracting process.
What affects how we effectively motivate contractors through the
life cycle?
, the Government's business strategies affect how we effectively
motivate contractors throughout the contracting life cycle.
When contemplating the business strategy of a procurement, what
should the acquisition team consider when aligning the strategy to
the contractor motivations?
The team can best align the strategy with those motivations,
including the type of contract, the length of the contract, financing
arrangements, profit/fee percentages, performance evaluation, data
rights, required warranties, maintenance/sustainment, and future
requirements.
What is the role of the contracting professional?
Contracting professionals serve as the overall business advisors to
the acquisition team, responsible for advising on the establishment
of a feasible and appropriate acquisition business strategy. They are
responsible for guiding the customer and other stakeholders
through the contracting life cycle stages
Contract management requires both general and business skills in
areas such as problem solving, critical thinking, costumer focus,
communication, and technical credibility. Successful contract
management does not allow for adaptability in a changing business
environment.
False = requires the ability to be adaptable to a changing business
environment
One of the initial steps in Acquisition Planning is to identify the
Acquisition Team. FAR 1.102-4(e) describes the role of the
Contracting Officer within the Acquisition Team
It says that Contracting officers should take the lead in encouraging
business process innovations and ensuring that business decisions
are sound.
FAR 1
Part 1 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System
The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF): A = Middle Tier DoD
To rapidly develop fieldable prototypes within an acquisition
program to demonstrate new capabilities and/or rapidly field
production quantities of systems with proven technologies that
require minimal development
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