CONTRACTING APPRENTICE ACTUAL FINALS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Part of doing business above reproach - ✔✔Means not accepting gratuities
✔✔How are gratuities defined - ✔✔- A favor or gift usually in the form of money, given
in return for a service
- Does not have to be money, can be anything of value
• No government employees may solicit or accept a gratuity of monetary value from
anyone who:
• Is seeking to do business with the government
• Conducts activities that are regulated but the employees agency
• Has interest that may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance
of the employees official duties
✔✔Office of Government Ethics (OGE) - ✔✔Because what one person deems
appropriate another may consider unethical
✔✔The OGE expressly states - ✔✔Executive branch employees are subject to
restriction on the gifts that they may accept from sources outside the government
(anything with a market value: transportation, travel, lodging and meals)
✔✔If you are offered a gift that cannot be accepted the specific options of the OGE says
- ✔✔- Return the gift
- Pay the market value if the gift
- If the gift is $100 or less destroy it
- If the gift is perishable, the gift can be shared with the office after approval
- If refusal is not an option and the business relationship may be damaged, gifts may be
accepted and turned into legal
✔✔Exceptions to the OGE - ✔✔- General exceptions: refreshments such as coffee or
donuts, discounts to the public or all government employees or prizes won in
completions open to the general public
, - The $20/$50 Rule: you may accept gifts with a market value of $20 or less per
occasion, gifts received from one person shall not exceed $50 in a calendar year
EXCEPTION DOES NOT APPLY TO CASH OR STOCKS, BONDS ETC.
✔✔If the value of a gift exceeds $20 can you pay the difference in order to accept a
portion of the gift worth $20? - ✔✔NO, But you may decline any distinct and separate
item in order to accept items valuing at $20 or less
✔✔May you accept a gift based on a personal relationship - ✔✔YES
✔✔If you suspect a violation of the gift rule you should ? - ✔✔Contact your CO, Legal,
the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), or Security Forces
✔✔OGE 450 - ✔✔Confidential Financial Disclosure system: the purpose is to prevent
conflicts of interest by providing a systematic review of the financial interests of both the
current and prospective employees
✔✔How often to do report financial interests on the OGE 450, Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report - ✔✔Annually
✔✔Conflict of Interests - ✔✔Arises when the interests of the member directly oppose
the interests of the government
✔✔To help decide if a conflict exists...
Ask yourself - ✔✔"Do your interests impair your ability to comply with the standards of
conduct in performing duties?"
✔✔The Basic Conflicts Rule - ✔✔We may not work the government in a particular
matter that will affect our financial interests
✔✔What are particular matters in The Basic Conflict Rule - ✔✔Something involving
deliberation, decision, or action that's focused on the interests of specific persons, or a
discrete and identifiable class of persons
✔✔Financial interest does not mean only you but also - ✔✔- Your spouse/ children
- Business partners
- Organizations in which you act as an officer, director, trustee, partner or employee
- Any individual/organization you are negotiating for future employment
✔✔What can help remove conflicts of interest - ✔✔- If you disqualify yourself and refuse
to participate in any official manner
- Complete the OGE 450
- Properly disclose your financial matters
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Part of doing business above reproach - ✔✔Means not accepting gratuities
✔✔How are gratuities defined - ✔✔- A favor or gift usually in the form of money, given
in return for a service
- Does not have to be money, can be anything of value
• No government employees may solicit or accept a gratuity of monetary value from
anyone who:
• Is seeking to do business with the government
• Conducts activities that are regulated but the employees agency
• Has interest that may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance
of the employees official duties
✔✔Office of Government Ethics (OGE) - ✔✔Because what one person deems
appropriate another may consider unethical
✔✔The OGE expressly states - ✔✔Executive branch employees are subject to
restriction on the gifts that they may accept from sources outside the government
(anything with a market value: transportation, travel, lodging and meals)
✔✔If you are offered a gift that cannot be accepted the specific options of the OGE says
- ✔✔- Return the gift
- Pay the market value if the gift
- If the gift is $100 or less destroy it
- If the gift is perishable, the gift can be shared with the office after approval
- If refusal is not an option and the business relationship may be damaged, gifts may be
accepted and turned into legal
✔✔Exceptions to the OGE - ✔✔- General exceptions: refreshments such as coffee or
donuts, discounts to the public or all government employees or prizes won in
completions open to the general public
, - The $20/$50 Rule: you may accept gifts with a market value of $20 or less per
occasion, gifts received from one person shall not exceed $50 in a calendar year
EXCEPTION DOES NOT APPLY TO CASH OR STOCKS, BONDS ETC.
✔✔If the value of a gift exceeds $20 can you pay the difference in order to accept a
portion of the gift worth $20? - ✔✔NO, But you may decline any distinct and separate
item in order to accept items valuing at $20 or less
✔✔May you accept a gift based on a personal relationship - ✔✔YES
✔✔If you suspect a violation of the gift rule you should ? - ✔✔Contact your CO, Legal,
the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), or Security Forces
✔✔OGE 450 - ✔✔Confidential Financial Disclosure system: the purpose is to prevent
conflicts of interest by providing a systematic review of the financial interests of both the
current and prospective employees
✔✔How often to do report financial interests on the OGE 450, Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report - ✔✔Annually
✔✔Conflict of Interests - ✔✔Arises when the interests of the member directly oppose
the interests of the government
✔✔To help decide if a conflict exists...
Ask yourself - ✔✔"Do your interests impair your ability to comply with the standards of
conduct in performing duties?"
✔✔The Basic Conflicts Rule - ✔✔We may not work the government in a particular
matter that will affect our financial interests
✔✔What are particular matters in The Basic Conflict Rule - ✔✔Something involving
deliberation, decision, or action that's focused on the interests of specific persons, or a
discrete and identifiable class of persons
✔✔Financial interest does not mean only you but also - ✔✔- Your spouse/ children
- Business partners
- Organizations in which you act as an officer, director, trustee, partner or employee
- Any individual/organization you are negotiating for future employment
✔✔What can help remove conflicts of interest - ✔✔- If you disqualify yourself and refuse
to participate in any official manner
- Complete the OGE 450
- Properly disclose your financial matters
