CON 1100; CONTRACT FOUNDATIONAL
SKILLS TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Identify the various acquisition strategy stages of the contracting life cycle.
ANSWER Acquisition Planning Stage
Solicitation Stage
Evaluation Stage
Award Stage
Contract Administration Stage
To what should a Contracting Officer lead? - ANSWER
Encouraging innovation within the business processes
Into what should a Contracting Officer ensure? - ANSWER Ensuring business
decisions sound.
The Adaptive Acquisition Framework includes six pathways to enable the
workforce to tailor strategies to delivery better solutions faster. - ANSWER
Urgent Capability Acquisition
Middle Tier of Acquisitions
Major Capability Acquisition
Software Acquisition
Defense Business Systems
Acquisition of Services
,Which pathway is 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? - ANSWER Middle Tier of Acquisition
Which pathway is to acquire information systems that support DoD business
operations? - ANSWER Defense Business Systems
Which pathway is to field capabilities to fulfill urgent existing and/or emerging
operational needs or quick reactions in less than two years? - ANSWER
Urgent Capability Acquisition
Which pathway is to acquire services from the private sector including
knowledge-based, construction, electronics and communications, equipment,
facilities, product support, logistics, medical, research and development, and
transportation services? - ANSWER Acquisition of Services
Which pathway is to facilitate rapid and iterative delivery of software capability
systems (e.g., software-intensive systems and/or software-intensive components
or sub-systems) to the user? - ANSWER Software Acquisition
Which pathway does this describe is to acquire and modernize military unique
programs that provide enduring capability? - ANSWER Major Capability
Acquisition
Acquisition planning shall involve all personnel responsible for any significant
aspect of the acquisition. What is the purpose of acquisition planning? -
ANSWER The purpose of this planning is to ensure that the Government meets
its needs in the most effective, economical, and timely manner.
, Which of the following is true about market research? - ANSWER Collecting
and analyzing information about capabilities within the market to satisfy agency
needs
Simplified acquisition is an acquisition method prescribed by FAR Part 13 for
purchasing supplies and services, including construction, research and
development, and commercial products and commercial services, for which the
aggregate amount does not exceed a certain limit. What is this limit called? -
ANSWER The simplified acquisition threshold.
What is the dollar amount of this limit? - ANSWER Equal to or less than
$250,000.
In which two families are contract types generally grouped? - ANSWER
Fixed-Price and Cost-Reimbursement
What is the official website for the U.S. government that contracting officers
use to publicize contracting opportunities? - ANSWER System for Award
Management (SAM) sam.gov
This tool is used when drafting the solicitation and guides the use of all
provisions and clauses contained in the FAR, Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition
Regulation (VAAR), and Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation
(DEAR). It also guides the use of provisions and clauses contained in DoD class
deviations.
What is the tool? - ANSWER DAU Provision and Clause Matrix
SKILLS TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Identify the various acquisition strategy stages of the contracting life cycle.
ANSWER Acquisition Planning Stage
Solicitation Stage
Evaluation Stage
Award Stage
Contract Administration Stage
To what should a Contracting Officer lead? - ANSWER
Encouraging innovation within the business processes
Into what should a Contracting Officer ensure? - ANSWER Ensuring business
decisions sound.
The Adaptive Acquisition Framework includes six pathways to enable the
workforce to tailor strategies to delivery better solutions faster. - ANSWER
Urgent Capability Acquisition
Middle Tier of Acquisitions
Major Capability Acquisition
Software Acquisition
Defense Business Systems
Acquisition of Services
,Which pathway is 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? - ANSWER Middle Tier of Acquisition
Which pathway is to acquire information systems that support DoD business
operations? - ANSWER Defense Business Systems
Which pathway is to field capabilities to fulfill urgent existing and/or emerging
operational needs or quick reactions in less than two years? - ANSWER
Urgent Capability Acquisition
Which pathway is to acquire services from the private sector including
knowledge-based, construction, electronics and communications, equipment,
facilities, product support, logistics, medical, research and development, and
transportation services? - ANSWER Acquisition of Services
Which pathway is to facilitate rapid and iterative delivery of software capability
systems (e.g., software-intensive systems and/or software-intensive components
or sub-systems) to the user? - ANSWER Software Acquisition
Which pathway does this describe is to acquire and modernize military unique
programs that provide enduring capability? - ANSWER Major Capability
Acquisition
Acquisition planning shall involve all personnel responsible for any significant
aspect of the acquisition. What is the purpose of acquisition planning? -
ANSWER The purpose of this planning is to ensure that the Government meets
its needs in the most effective, economical, and timely manner.
, Which of the following is true about market research? - ANSWER Collecting
and analyzing information about capabilities within the market to satisfy agency
needs
Simplified acquisition is an acquisition method prescribed by FAR Part 13 for
purchasing supplies and services, including construction, research and
development, and commercial products and commercial services, for which the
aggregate amount does not exceed a certain limit. What is this limit called? -
ANSWER The simplified acquisition threshold.
What is the dollar amount of this limit? - ANSWER Equal to or less than
$250,000.
In which two families are contract types generally grouped? - ANSWER
Fixed-Price and Cost-Reimbursement
What is the official website for the U.S. government that contracting officers
use to publicize contracting opportunities? - ANSWER System for Award
Management (SAM) sam.gov
This tool is used when drafting the solicitation and guides the use of all
provisions and clauses contained in the FAR, Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition
Regulation (VAAR), and Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation
(DEAR). It also guides the use of provisions and clauses contained in DoD class
deviations.
What is the tool? - ANSWER DAU Provision and Clause Matrix
