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CONTRACTING OFFICER WARRANT BOARD EXAM NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
You are working on a competitive RFP and are nearing
completion of Sections L, containing information and instructions
for offerors, and Section M, containing evaluation factors for
award. You have just completed a cross-check of Sections L and
M to make sure that there is correlation between the contents of
the two sections and are satisfied that there is 100% correlation.
Your PM comes into your office all excited and tells you that this
new information requires is not related to any other information
requested from the offerors in Sec L. You also know from your
work on the RFP that there is no corresponding evaluation
criterion in Sec M for this information. You ask him why he wants
to include the request in the RFP, and he states that this is
important information that he absolutely has to obtain for the
success of the program.. What do you tell the PM? - ANSWER-It
is critical that the information requested in Sec L be held to an
absolute minimum, and then be requested only to the extent that
the information will be relevant to the evaluation criteria in Sec M.
A sure protest loser is where information is received in a proposal,
is not relevant to an evaluation criterion, and is considered in the
final source selection decision. This situation is called an
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"undisclosed evaluation criterion" by the GAO. IF the information
is so critical to the success of the program, then why isn't there a
corresponding evaluation criterion in Sec M that will consider the
information in making the final source selection decision?
What is included in a Source Selection Plan (SSP)?
Acq Plan/question 014 - ANSWER-1) A brief description of the
requirement, including reference to any applicable guidance such
as a Program Management Directive (PMD)
2) A summary of the acquisition strategy, including when
applicable, type of contract anticipated, incentives contemplated,
milestone demonstrations intended, special contract clauses,
performance metrics
3) Source Selection team. Recommended members and advisors
by name, position title, company affiliation or by functional area.
Identify other Government organizations that will participate in the
source selection.
4) Pre-solicitation activities. Describe the activities leading up to
the release of the solicitation such as market research, draft
solicitations, and synopsis.
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5) Evaluation factors and sub factors. Describe the evaluation
factors and sub factors and their relative order of importance by
attaching the relevant portions of the instructions to offerors and
evaluation criteria (Section L&M). Describe the evaluation
process.
6) Schedule of events.
7) Address the use of non-government personnel.
8) Identify and explain requested or approved deviations and
delegations.
You are the PC0 on a major competitive aircraft program that is
preparing to issue the RFP to start source selection. What types
of requirements documents would you expect to see in the RFP?
- ANSWER-There is a variety of acceptable answers, but normally
at ASC we would expect to see these two types of requirements
documents in this major program RFP:
a. A Statement of Objectives (SOO) specifies all the objectives for
the program in terms of business and technical outcomes and
management emphasis. The government normally would ask
each offeror, as part of their proposal, to submit a proposed
Statement of Work (SOW) in response to the RFP SO0 to be
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evaluated as part of source selection and for eventual inclusion in
the offeror's final contract if they were to be the winning offeror.
b. A System Requirements Document (SRD) would specify the
aircraft technical details that would be required of all offerors in
source selection. Normal ASC practice is that each offeror would
respond to the RFP SRD with a proposed system and/or air
vehicle specification that would capture both the required features
from the SRD as well as the unique features of the aircraft to be
proposed. The system and/or air vehicle specifications would be
evaluated as part
of the source selection evaluation, then would become the unique
contractual specification for the winning offeror's contract.
Regardless of format, the requirements documents should
specify:
1. What tasks/how they should be done under contract, and
2. What characteristics the product should have, how it should
perform, how it will be tested and supported, etc..
CONTRACTING OFFICER WARRANT BOARD EXAM NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
You are working on a competitive RFP and are nearing
completion of Sections L, containing information and instructions
for offerors, and Section M, containing evaluation factors for
award. You have just completed a cross-check of Sections L and
M to make sure that there is correlation between the contents of
the two sections and are satisfied that there is 100% correlation.
Your PM comes into your office all excited and tells you that this
new information requires is not related to any other information
requested from the offerors in Sec L. You also know from your
work on the RFP that there is no corresponding evaluation
criterion in Sec M for this information. You ask him why he wants
to include the request in the RFP, and he states that this is
important information that he absolutely has to obtain for the
success of the program.. What do you tell the PM? - ANSWER-It
is critical that the information requested in Sec L be held to an
absolute minimum, and then be requested only to the extent that
the information will be relevant to the evaluation criteria in Sec M.
A sure protest loser is where information is received in a proposal,
is not relevant to an evaluation criterion, and is considered in the
final source selection decision. This situation is called an
,2|Page
"undisclosed evaluation criterion" by the GAO. IF the information
is so critical to the success of the program, then why isn't there a
corresponding evaluation criterion in Sec M that will consider the
information in making the final source selection decision?
What is included in a Source Selection Plan (SSP)?
Acq Plan/question 014 - ANSWER-1) A brief description of the
requirement, including reference to any applicable guidance such
as a Program Management Directive (PMD)
2) A summary of the acquisition strategy, including when
applicable, type of contract anticipated, incentives contemplated,
milestone demonstrations intended, special contract clauses,
performance metrics
3) Source Selection team. Recommended members and advisors
by name, position title, company affiliation or by functional area.
Identify other Government organizations that will participate in the
source selection.
4) Pre-solicitation activities. Describe the activities leading up to
the release of the solicitation such as market research, draft
solicitations, and synopsis.
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5) Evaluation factors and sub factors. Describe the evaluation
factors and sub factors and their relative order of importance by
attaching the relevant portions of the instructions to offerors and
evaluation criteria (Section L&M). Describe the evaluation
process.
6) Schedule of events.
7) Address the use of non-government personnel.
8) Identify and explain requested or approved deviations and
delegations.
You are the PC0 on a major competitive aircraft program that is
preparing to issue the RFP to start source selection. What types
of requirements documents would you expect to see in the RFP?
- ANSWER-There is a variety of acceptable answers, but normally
at ASC we would expect to see these two types of requirements
documents in this major program RFP:
a. A Statement of Objectives (SOO) specifies all the objectives for
the program in terms of business and technical outcomes and
management emphasis. The government normally would ask
each offeror, as part of their proposal, to submit a proposed
Statement of Work (SOW) in response to the RFP SO0 to be
, 4|Page
evaluated as part of source selection and for eventual inclusion in
the offeror's final contract if they were to be the winning offeror.
b. A System Requirements Document (SRD) would specify the
aircraft technical details that would be required of all offerors in
source selection. Normal ASC practice is that each offeror would
respond to the RFP SRD with a proposed system and/or air
vehicle specification that would capture both the required features
from the SRD as well as the unique features of the aircraft to be
proposed. The system and/or air vehicle specifications would be
evaluated as part
of the source selection evaluation, then would become the unique
contractual specification for the winning offeror's contract.
Regardless of format, the requirements documents should
specify:
1. What tasks/how they should be done under contract, and
2. What characteristics the product should have, how it should
perform, how it will be tested and supported, etc..
