QPA EXAM 5 QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Under the LPCL, list the reasons a contracting unit may reject all bids:
1. The lowest bid substantially exceeds the cost estimate for the goods or services
2. The lowest bid substantially exceeds the contracting unit's appropriation for the goods or
services
3. The governing body of the contracting unit decides to abandon the project for provision or
performance of the goods or services
4. The contracting unit wants to substantially revise the specifications for goods or services
5. The purposes or provisions or both of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) are being violated
6. The governing body of the contracting unit decides to use the State authorized contract
A procurement card differs substantially from a credit card issued by a financial
institution because of the controls that may be exercised on its use. Before selection of an
issuer (and in addition to consideration of fees and rebates, software and computer
requirements, and accessibility to the vendor), the following limits and controls shall be
incorporated into the procurement card program:
1. The ability to control limits on-line and in real-time;
2. The ability to establish, change or delete limits on each card individually;
3. The ability to categorically restrict the use of individual cards;
4. The ability to establish a cumulative limit for a specific period;
5. The ability to review current activity on-line; and
6. The ability to receive sorted or sortable detailed reports of activity, by authorized card user,
department or spending category.
,The Citation for N.J.S.A. 40A:11-1 et seq.New Jersey Statutes Annotated (N.J.S.A.) Title
40A (Municipalities and Counties) Section 11-1 et seq. is known as:
Local Public Contracts Law
______ means the performance of work, or the furnishing of labor, time, or effort, or any
combination thereof, not involving or connected to the delivery or ownership of a specified
end product or goods or a manufacturing process.
Services
______ means any work, labor, communities, equipment, materials, or supplies of any
tangible or intangible nature, except real property or any interest therein, provided or
performed through a contract awarded.
Goods and Services
______ means building, altering, repairing, improving or demolishing any public structure
or facility constructed or acquired by a contracting unit to house local government
functions or provide water, waste disposal, power, transportation, and other public
infrastructures.
Public Works
______ means services rendered or performed by a person authorized by law to practice a
recognized profession, whose practice is regulated by law, and the performance of which
services requires knowledge of an advanced type of field of learning acquired by a
prolonged formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from general
academic instruction or apprenticeship and training or provision or performance of goods
or services that are original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic
endeavor.
Professional Service
_____ means services and any other activity of a tangible or intangible nature performed or
assumed pursuant to a contract or agreement with a contracting unit.
Work
, ______ means the least possible amount that meets all requirements of the request of a
contracting agent.
Lowest Price
______ means able to complete the contract in accordance with its requirements, including
but not limited to requirements pertaining to experience, moral integrity, operating
capacity, financial capacity, credit, and workforce, equipment, and facilities availability.
Responsible
______ means the bidder or vendor: (a) whose response to a request for bids offers the
lowest price and is responsive; and (b) who is responsible.
Lowest Responsible Bidder
_____ means conforming in all material respects to the terms and conditions, specifications,
legal requirements, and other provisions of the request.
Responsive
_____ means the authorized designee, which has the power to prepare the advertisements,
to advertise for and receive bids, and as permitted by this act, to make awards for the
contracting unit in connection with purchases, contracts or agreements
Contracting Agent
______ means the individual duly assigned the authority, responsibility, and accountability
for the purchasing activity of the contracting unit, and who has such duties as are defined
by an authority appropriate to the form and structure of the contracting unit, and who has
such duties as are defined by an authority appropriate to the form and structure of the
contracting unit, and P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) and who possesses a qualified
purchasing agent certificate.
Purchasing Agent
Prior to advertising for the receipt of bids that includes proprietary goods or services, who
shall the contracting agent or purchasing agent certify in writing to, an explanation of why
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Under the LPCL, list the reasons a contracting unit may reject all bids:
1. The lowest bid substantially exceeds the cost estimate for the goods or services
2. The lowest bid substantially exceeds the contracting unit's appropriation for the goods or
services
3. The governing body of the contracting unit decides to abandon the project for provision or
performance of the goods or services
4. The contracting unit wants to substantially revise the specifications for goods or services
5. The purposes or provisions or both of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) are being violated
6. The governing body of the contracting unit decides to use the State authorized contract
A procurement card differs substantially from a credit card issued by a financial
institution because of the controls that may be exercised on its use. Before selection of an
issuer (and in addition to consideration of fees and rebates, software and computer
requirements, and accessibility to the vendor), the following limits and controls shall be
incorporated into the procurement card program:
1. The ability to control limits on-line and in real-time;
2. The ability to establish, change or delete limits on each card individually;
3. The ability to categorically restrict the use of individual cards;
4. The ability to establish a cumulative limit for a specific period;
5. The ability to review current activity on-line; and
6. The ability to receive sorted or sortable detailed reports of activity, by authorized card user,
department or spending category.
,The Citation for N.J.S.A. 40A:11-1 et seq.New Jersey Statutes Annotated (N.J.S.A.) Title
40A (Municipalities and Counties) Section 11-1 et seq. is known as:
Local Public Contracts Law
______ means the performance of work, or the furnishing of labor, time, or effort, or any
combination thereof, not involving or connected to the delivery or ownership of a specified
end product or goods or a manufacturing process.
Services
______ means any work, labor, communities, equipment, materials, or supplies of any
tangible or intangible nature, except real property or any interest therein, provided or
performed through a contract awarded.
Goods and Services
______ means building, altering, repairing, improving or demolishing any public structure
or facility constructed or acquired by a contracting unit to house local government
functions or provide water, waste disposal, power, transportation, and other public
infrastructures.
Public Works
______ means services rendered or performed by a person authorized by law to practice a
recognized profession, whose practice is regulated by law, and the performance of which
services requires knowledge of an advanced type of field of learning acquired by a
prolonged formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from general
academic instruction or apprenticeship and training or provision or performance of goods
or services that are original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic
endeavor.
Professional Service
_____ means services and any other activity of a tangible or intangible nature performed or
assumed pursuant to a contract or agreement with a contracting unit.
Work
, ______ means the least possible amount that meets all requirements of the request of a
contracting agent.
Lowest Price
______ means able to complete the contract in accordance with its requirements, including
but not limited to requirements pertaining to experience, moral integrity, operating
capacity, financial capacity, credit, and workforce, equipment, and facilities availability.
Responsible
______ means the bidder or vendor: (a) whose response to a request for bids offers the
lowest price and is responsive; and (b) who is responsible.
Lowest Responsible Bidder
_____ means conforming in all material respects to the terms and conditions, specifications,
legal requirements, and other provisions of the request.
Responsive
_____ means the authorized designee, which has the power to prepare the advertisements,
to advertise for and receive bids, and as permitted by this act, to make awards for the
contracting unit in connection with purchases, contracts or agreements
Contracting Agent
______ means the individual duly assigned the authority, responsibility, and accountability
for the purchasing activity of the contracting unit, and who has such duties as are defined
by an authority appropriate to the form and structure of the contracting unit, and who has
such duties as are defined by an authority appropriate to the form and structure of the
contracting unit, and P.L. 1971, c. 198 (C.40A:11-1 et seq.) and who possesses a qualified
purchasing agent certificate.
Purchasing Agent
Prior to advertising for the receipt of bids that includes proprietary goods or services, who
shall the contracting agent or purchasing agent certify in writing to, an explanation of why
