USAF Unlimited Warrant Mock Board
Questions Set 1
QUESTION: Currently there is a non-Government contractor employee who is running in a
unique technical region. A new supply selection is deliberate and the technical director would
really like to make this contractor employee leader of the technical evaluation crew. As such,
this employee would be a voting member of the source choice board. Is it permissible to have a
non-Government contractor worker as leader of the technical assessment team and a balloting
member of the supply selection board? - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY: FAR
7.503(c)(12)(ii)
ANSWER: It is not permissible to have a non-Government employee as a vote casting member
of any source selection board, as that is an inherently governmental function. FAR policy states
that contracts shall not be used for the overall performance of inherently governmental
functions. Inherently governmental capabilities include: control of criminal investigations or
prosecutions, command of army forces, determination of employer policy and application of
regulations, figuring out finances priorities, and course and manage of federal employees,
amongst different. (The list isn't always all inclusive!)
QUESTION: You are close to the conclusion of a high-dollar cost negotiation together with your
contractor. The contractor has stated a information sweep to your Program Manager who in turn
has come to you with multiple questions: What is a information sweep? Is it required through the
government, and what is its cause? The PM also indicated that the contractor noted the sweep
may want to result in an upward or downward adjustment to the negotiated price and he wants
to recognize if that is true. - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY: FAR 15.407-1; AFMC MP
5315.406-2; CPRG Vol four Ch 5
ANSWER: A information sweep is the term given to the vast reviews many contractors like to do
following settlement on fee in negotiations but previous to submitting their Certificate of Current
Cost or Pricing Data. The objective of a records sweep is to shield the contractor from expenses
of faulty pricing at a later date by using identifying any new or revised records on the way to
make the contractor's records modern-day, correct, and whole. The offeror then submits the new
or revised statistics with its Certificate of Current Cost or Pricing Data. Data sweeps have taken
numerous months to finish for a unmarried contract in a few instances. It is NOT required via the
Government and it may suggest serious flaws within the contractor's estimating device if it takes
more than 30 days.
It has lengthy been held by way of the DoD Inspector General that the agreement price must
now not be improved as a result of records submitted after fee settlement, that's steady with
submit-award audits wherein offsets are best allowed as much as the amount the settlement
was increased because of faulty pricing. AFMC MP says that after a contractor submits extra
, price or pricing records after the date of agreement on price, however earlier than contract
award, that's modern as of the date of agreement on fee, the contracting officer shall:
(1) Require the contractor to offer a price impact summary which one after the other displays
rate boom and charge decrease influences on the negotiated rate;
(2) Allow handiest a downward rate adjustment; a internet 0 adjustment may be taken into
consideration while valid charge boom offsets are gift; and
(3) Require that the "as of" date at the Certificate of Current Cost or Pricing Data be the date of
agreement on fee in preference to the date the additional information became submitted.
QUESTION: You are the Contracting Officer for a far-behind schedule attempt. On Friday you
finally obtain the vital authority to launch the agreement for signature. It's overdue on Friday
afternoon while you email the amendment to the contractor for signature. The only person on
the contractor's workplace on Friday afternoon is the corporation president's 17 12 months old
daughter who's running there as a summer time-rent secretary. She is aware of her father
urgently desires the agreement change so she signs and symptoms the file and returns it on
your workplace. You note the final name is similar to the president's so that you anticipate that
he's the only who signed the amendment. Is this a legal settlement? - ANS-ANSWER: Probably
not. The elements of a settlement are - provide, popularity, consideration, for a lawful cause,
actuality of terms, and prison potential. It is unlikely that a 17 yr old summer lease might have
the authority to bind the organisation, irrespective of her relationship to the business enterprise
president. Courts may also typically locate that people lack "the age majority" if they're below 18
years of age.
The regulation in a given jurisdiction might also by no means actually use the time period "age
of majority" and the term thereby refers to a set of laws bestowing the popularity of maturity. The
age of majority is a legally constant age, idea, or statutory principle, which may additionally differ
depending at the jurisdiction, and might not always correspond to actual mental or bodily
adulthood of an individual.
In practical terms, there are sure specific actions which a person who attains the age of
adulthood is allowed to take, which they could not do earlier than. These may additionally
consist of getting into a binding settlement, buying stocks, voting, buying and/or eating alcoholic
beverages, using motor vehicles on public roads, and marrying without obtaining consent of
others. The a long time at which these various rights or powers can be exercised range as
among the diverse rights and as among distinct jurisdictions. For example, the ages at which a
person can also acquire a license to force a car or consume alcoholic beverages range full-size
among and also within jurisdictions.
QUESTION: You are the PCO in Source Selection and dutifully following the FAR, DFARS, and
many others., on a specific trouble. However, your better leadership is now providing you with
"path" which you agree with is contrary to your prison guidance. What do you do? Do you
comply with the regulation or better management course? - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY:
FAR 1.602-2; AFFARS 5301.602-2; AFMC MP 5301.602-2
ANSWER: This is a traditional example of the way your obligations as a PCO can once in a
while war together with your obligations as part of a sequence of command inside the Air Force.
While you commonly want to comply with the orders of your better leadership, it can not be
feasible because of your obligations as a warranted PCO.
Questions Set 1
QUESTION: Currently there is a non-Government contractor employee who is running in a
unique technical region. A new supply selection is deliberate and the technical director would
really like to make this contractor employee leader of the technical evaluation crew. As such,
this employee would be a voting member of the source choice board. Is it permissible to have a
non-Government contractor worker as leader of the technical assessment team and a balloting
member of the supply selection board? - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY: FAR
7.503(c)(12)(ii)
ANSWER: It is not permissible to have a non-Government employee as a vote casting member
of any source selection board, as that is an inherently governmental function. FAR policy states
that contracts shall not be used for the overall performance of inherently governmental
functions. Inherently governmental capabilities include: control of criminal investigations or
prosecutions, command of army forces, determination of employer policy and application of
regulations, figuring out finances priorities, and course and manage of federal employees,
amongst different. (The list isn't always all inclusive!)
QUESTION: You are close to the conclusion of a high-dollar cost negotiation together with your
contractor. The contractor has stated a information sweep to your Program Manager who in turn
has come to you with multiple questions: What is a information sweep? Is it required through the
government, and what is its cause? The PM also indicated that the contractor noted the sweep
may want to result in an upward or downward adjustment to the negotiated price and he wants
to recognize if that is true. - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY: FAR 15.407-1; AFMC MP
5315.406-2; CPRG Vol four Ch 5
ANSWER: A information sweep is the term given to the vast reviews many contractors like to do
following settlement on fee in negotiations but previous to submitting their Certificate of Current
Cost or Pricing Data. The objective of a records sweep is to shield the contractor from expenses
of faulty pricing at a later date by using identifying any new or revised records on the way to
make the contractor's records modern-day, correct, and whole. The offeror then submits the new
or revised statistics with its Certificate of Current Cost or Pricing Data. Data sweeps have taken
numerous months to finish for a unmarried contract in a few instances. It is NOT required via the
Government and it may suggest serious flaws within the contractor's estimating device if it takes
more than 30 days.
It has lengthy been held by way of the DoD Inspector General that the agreement price must
now not be improved as a result of records submitted after fee settlement, that's steady with
submit-award audits wherein offsets are best allowed as much as the amount the settlement
was increased because of faulty pricing. AFMC MP says that after a contractor submits extra
, price or pricing records after the date of agreement on price, however earlier than contract
award, that's modern as of the date of agreement on fee, the contracting officer shall:
(1) Require the contractor to offer a price impact summary which one after the other displays
rate boom and charge decrease influences on the negotiated rate;
(2) Allow handiest a downward rate adjustment; a internet 0 adjustment may be taken into
consideration while valid charge boom offsets are gift; and
(3) Require that the "as of" date at the Certificate of Current Cost or Pricing Data be the date of
agreement on fee in preference to the date the additional information became submitted.
QUESTION: You are the Contracting Officer for a far-behind schedule attempt. On Friday you
finally obtain the vital authority to launch the agreement for signature. It's overdue on Friday
afternoon while you email the amendment to the contractor for signature. The only person on
the contractor's workplace on Friday afternoon is the corporation president's 17 12 months old
daughter who's running there as a summer time-rent secretary. She is aware of her father
urgently desires the agreement change so she signs and symptoms the file and returns it on
your workplace. You note the final name is similar to the president's so that you anticipate that
he's the only who signed the amendment. Is this a legal settlement? - ANS-ANSWER: Probably
not. The elements of a settlement are - provide, popularity, consideration, for a lawful cause,
actuality of terms, and prison potential. It is unlikely that a 17 yr old summer lease might have
the authority to bind the organisation, irrespective of her relationship to the business enterprise
president. Courts may also typically locate that people lack "the age majority" if they're below 18
years of age.
The regulation in a given jurisdiction might also by no means actually use the time period "age
of majority" and the term thereby refers to a set of laws bestowing the popularity of maturity. The
age of majority is a legally constant age, idea, or statutory principle, which may additionally differ
depending at the jurisdiction, and might not always correspond to actual mental or bodily
adulthood of an individual.
In practical terms, there are sure specific actions which a person who attains the age of
adulthood is allowed to take, which they could not do earlier than. These may additionally
consist of getting into a binding settlement, buying stocks, voting, buying and/or eating alcoholic
beverages, using motor vehicles on public roads, and marrying without obtaining consent of
others. The a long time at which these various rights or powers can be exercised range as
among the diverse rights and as among distinct jurisdictions. For example, the ages at which a
person can also acquire a license to force a car or consume alcoholic beverages range full-size
among and also within jurisdictions.
QUESTION: You are the PCO in Source Selection and dutifully following the FAR, DFARS, and
many others., on a specific trouble. However, your better leadership is now providing you with
"path" which you agree with is contrary to your prison guidance. What do you do? Do you
comply with the regulation or better management course? - ANS-REFERENCES/AUTHORITY:
FAR 1.602-2; AFFARS 5301.602-2; AFMC MP 5301.602-2
ANSWER: This is a traditional example of the way your obligations as a PCO can once in a
while war together with your obligations as part of a sequence of command inside the Air Force.
While you commonly want to comply with the orders of your better leadership, it can not be
feasible because of your obligations as a warranted PCO.
