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Methods of responding to vendor questions during an active solicitation: - ✔✔-Pre response
conference
-written Q&A period
-Directly contact procurement officer
Stage 5: Response evaluation process - ✔✔This stage includes:
-Reviewing and evaluating responses to a competitive solicitation
-Negotiating with respondents (if appropriate)
-Making an award recommendation
A responsive vendor is... - ✔✔A vendor that has submitted a bid, proposal, or reply that
conforms to the solicitation
All discussion of responses and award recommendations must take place in... - ✔✔A public
meeting
For agreements awarded on a non-competitive basis, what kind of analysis is required? -
✔✔A cost analysis
Agency award recommendation process - ✔✔-Public meeting to discuss award
recommendation with agency head or designee
-Procurement officer writes a summary of award recommendation
-Procurement officer forwards summary to agency head/designee to make the contract award
decision
,Stage 6: Contract Award Process - ✔✔This stage includes:
Posting the agency decision
Drafting and reviewing the contract
Executing the final contract
Who can protest an agency decision or intended decision? - ✔✔Anyone who is adversely
affected. Receiving a formal written protest stops the solicitation process
Protest timeline - ✔✔-Written notice of intent to protest due within 72 hours of the
solicitation decision being posted
-Formal written protest due within 10 days of the decision being posted
Required elements of a contract/grant - ✔✔SOW
Deliverables/performance measures
Financial consequences
Required minimum review process for contracts over a Cat 3 - ✔✔Programmatic review
Financial review
Legal review
State employees are NOT ALLOWED to - ✔✔-Be contract managers of a vendor by which
they were employed within the last 5 years
-Accept gifts from vendors (nor should family members)
-Procure a contract for a vendor where a relative is an officer or the relative owns more than
5% interest
When an award will not involve a competitive process, the state will evaluate the cost based on
these 4 criteria: - ✔✔Allowable
, Reasonable
Necessary
Allocable
A cost analysis is also appropriate to perform when - ✔✔-There is an agreement with a
recipient/subrecipient
-Cost reimbursements
Agreement - ✔✔Written document (contract) that establishes the relationship between you
and the provider
Agreement documents GENERALLY contain - ✔✔-Terms and conditions
-Standard audit language
-Availability of records
-Timing and nature of reports
-Subcontracting or subgranting
-Payment terms
-Disposition of property
Agreement documents are REQUIRED to contain - ✔✔Scope of work
Deliverables
Final consequences section
Scope of work qualitative standards - ✔✔Who
What
When
Where
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