SOLUTIONS
TEXAS COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - Answer✅️
☑️State tax collector
and treasury
State accountant
Revenue estimation and forecast
Purchasing support and procurement oversight
Statewide term contracts for use by over 200 state agencies and universities
Purchaser Role: - Answer✅️ ☑T ️he term refers purchasing to the mechanical or
administrative process of how goods and services are ordered.
Contract Developer Role: - Answer✅️ ☑T️his term applies to all the actions taken
prior to contract execution and the preparation and completion of contract award
documents
Contract Manager Role: - Answer✅️ ☑️ This term applies to actions taken following
contract execution and ensuring contract performance and practices are consistent
with rules and Texas laws
Fundamentals of Procurement - Answer✅️
☑️Fairness, Transparency
Best Value for the State
Own the Mission
Good Steward of Public Funds
Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) does - Answer✅️ ☑D
️ elegates purchasing
authority to state agencies of non-IT goods and services
,Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) - Answer✅️
☑P️rocurement Policy and
Outreach
Contract Development
Contract Management
Historically Underutilized Business
Statewide Fleet, Travel, and Mail
Procurement Policy and Outreach - Answer✅️
☑️Training and Policy Development
Outreach
Procurement Oversight and Delegation (POD)
Training and Policy Development - Answer✅️
☑D️evelops and administers BTP,
CTCD and CTCM training
Provides continuing education courses required for maintenance of certifications
Conducts policy research and clarification
Outreach - Answer✅️
☑P️rovides customer support for:
Texas SmartBuy support and membership
Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD)
Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL)
Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS)
Procurement Oversight and Delegation (POD) - Answer✅️ ☑️ Performs reviews of
service solicitations over $100K (30 days) and delegates purchasing authority
Contract Advisory Team (CAT) review - Answer✅️
☑$️5Million or greater
Contract Development - Answer✅️
☑️Develops Term, Managed, and TXMAS
contracts
Performs reviews for solicitations for goods over $50K (30 days) via open market
requisitions (OMR) and approves delegation of purchasing authority
,
Contract Management - Answer✅️ ☑A️ ssists state agencies, higher education
institutions, Texas SmartBuy Members, and contractors with:
day-to-day contract management
contract administration
reporting requirements
vendor performance issues related to statewide contracts
Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) - Answer✅️
☑C️ertifies Texas-
based vendors as HUBs = Minority-owned, woman-owned, or service-disabled
veteran-owned
Contract Developers or purchasers must make a good faith effort to identify HUB
subcontracting opportunities when the contract value is $100,000 or greater.
HUB = 100K+ (2 of 3)
Statewide Fleet, Travel and Mail - Answer✅️
☑O️ffice of Vehicle Fleet Management:
Statewide Travel Management Program:
Statewide Mail Operations:
Statewide Travel Management Program - Answer✅️ ☑P ️rovides travel services
contracts: required for state agencies and available to TX SmartBuy members
Agency Submissions and Documents Required by Statute - Answer✅️
☑A️gency
Procurement Plan
Agency Contract Management Handbook:
HUB Program Reports
Agency Contract Management Procedures
, Agency Procurement Plan: - Answer✅️ ☑I️dentifies management controls and
purchasing oversight authority in accordance with the policy guidance contained in
the Guide
DUE NOVEMBER 30TH
Agency Contract Management Handbook: - Answer✅️
☑E️stablishes consistent
contracting policies and practices
May include standard contract provisions and formats
HUB Program Reports - Answer✅️ ☑E ️ach agency must submit its HUB
expenditures to the Statewide HUB program for inclusion in the HUB Report.
Agency Contract Management Procedures - Answer✅️
☑️Must provide for:
The assessment of the risk of fraud, waste and abuse in all agency contracts
The identification of contracts that require enhanced contract monitoring
The establishment of clear levels of purchasing accountability and staff
responsibilities related to purchasing.
The agency posts on the agency's website and sends to:
to post on the Comptroller's website.
Which Texas agency provides purchasing support and procurement oversight? -
Answer✅️ ☑T ️exas Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA)
Which SPD team promotes equal business opportunities to remedy disparity in state
procurement? - Answer✅️
☑H ️istorically Underutilized Business Program (HUB)
Are the Agency Contract Management Procedures only important for Contract
Managers to know? - Answer✅️ ☑️ No, the Contract Developers also need to know
their agency processes and procedures.
Which SPD team provides customer support for Texas SmartBuy and other
applications used by state agencies? - Answer✅️
☑O️utreach