Certified Texas Contract Manager Exam
Questions and Answers
Vendor Performance Tracking System - Correct Answers --A contractor's performance
must be reported to this system within 30 days of contract completion or termination if
the contract value is over $25,000.
-Reporting Requirements
-Interpreting How Vendor Scores are Calculated
-Scoring a Vendor
-VPTS Process
Texas SmartBuy - Correct Answers -The State's eProcurement system for non-IT goods
and services.
Policy and Outreach - Correct Answers -Conducts policy research, training and
certification and customer support services.
Statewide Mail Operations - Correct Answers -Provides state agencies and institutions
of higher education a variety of mail operations services.
Statewide Contract Management Team - Correct Answers -Manages statewide term,
managed and TXMAS contracts for use by state agencies.
State Travel Management Program - Correct Answers -Manages travel expenditures,
monitors travel activity, provides discounted travel services to state agencies,
institutions of higher education, and eligible Texas Smartbuy members.
Office of Fleet Management - Correct Answers -Establishes and manages the state
vehicle reporting system, assists state agencies and institutions of higher education with
the management of their fleet vehicles.
Historically Underutilized Business Program - Correct Answers -Provides opportunities
to disadvantaged groups in an effort to remedy disparity in state procurement
contracting.
, Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) - Correct Answers -The State's online system
used for posting solicitations for the purposes of informing vendors of procurement
opportunities and providing public notice of contract awards.
Procurement Oversight and Delegation (POD) - Correct Answers -Reviews solicitations
and issues a letter of delegation of purchasing authority for an anticipated service
contract valued over $100,000.
Central Master Bidder's List - Correct Answers -Online directory that provides public
procurement professionals the ability to foster competition between vendors.
Agency Procurement Plans - Correct Answers -This plan must be submitted by
November 30th annually to SPD for potential contract consolidation.
State Contract Development Team - Correct Answers -Develops statewide term,
managed, and TXMAS contracts that offer a broad range of goods and services to state
agencies.
Best Practice - Correct Answers -Report throughout Contract
VTPS Reporting - Correct Answers -within 30 days of close out or terminated
Records Retention - Correct Answers -All documents must be maintained in electronic
form after Close of Contract plus 7 years.
Purchasing - Correct Answers -The receipt and processing of requisitions, development
of specifications development of statement of work, the issuance of purchase orders
against existing statewide, cooperative or agency contracts, and the verification of the
inspection of merchandise or receipt of services by the agency. The term does not
include the development of solicitations and contract awards that must be posted to the
Electronic State Business Daily(ESBD) or in the Texas Register.
Contract Developer - Correct Answers -The term applies to actions taken prior to
contract execution, including the receipt and processing of requisitions, assessment of
need, development and review of specifications, development and review of scopes of
work, identification and selection of procurement methods, identification and preparation
of evaluation criteria, preparation and advertising of solicitation documents, tabulation of
respondent bids, evaluation of respondent proposals, negotiation of proposals, and the
preparation and completion of contract award documents. The term does not include
invoice or audit functions.
Contract Management - Correct Answers -The term applies to actions taken following
contract execution, including the assessment of risk, verification of contractor
performance, monitoring compliance with deliverable and reporting requirements,
enforcement of contract terms, monitoring and reporting of vendor performance, and
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