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Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) - ✔✔central authority for state
agency procurement guidance, education, and statewide contract
development services
Major contracts for information technology projects are monitored by the _.
- ✔✔Quality Assurance Team (QAT)
Major contracts are reviewed by _. - ✔✔Contract Advisory Team (CAT)
Procurement - ✔✔refers to all aspects of the sourcing activities, including
drafting and issuing the solicitation, evaluation of responses, selection of
successful respondents, the negotiation of contracts, and the actual
purchasing of goods or services.
Purchasing - ✔✔refers to the mechanical or administrative process of how
goods and services are ordered. Usually described as the transactional
function of the procurement process
Nepotism - ✔✔form of conflict of interest that involves an explicit act of
using one's position to favor a relative
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,The two classifications of Nepotism are: - ✔✔Consanguinity and Affinity
What is a consanguinity relationship? - ✔✔one established through
bloodlines
includes individuals related by blood to the official or employee
three degrees
1st: Parents, Children
2nd: Grandparents, Grandchildren, Brothers and Sisters
3rd: Great-Grandparents, Great-grandchildren, Nephews and Nieces,
Uncles and Aunts
What is a affinity relationship? - ✔✔arises by virtue of marriage
includes an officials or employee's spouse and individuals related to the
spouse
two degrees
1st: spouse, spouse's parents, Children's Spouses, Spouse's children
2nd: Spouse's grandparents, spouses grandchildren, spouse's brothers
and sisters, brothers and sister's spouses
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, Bribery - ✔✔if a person intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees
to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit as
consideration for a violation of public servants legal duty or a public
servants decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or any other exercise of
discretion.
T or F, A bribery offense can still occur even if the benefit is offered after
the employee has acting in a manner desired or after the employee has
ceased working for the state - ✔✔True
Bribery does not occur is the benefit is a political contribution - ✔✔True
Where do you report suspected fraud, waste or abuse? - ✔✔The State
Auditor's Office (SAO)
Allowable vendor-public procurement professional interactions between
response due date and contract award include what three things? - ✔✔1.
Clarification of respondent's ability to meet the solicitation requirements
2. Negotiations
3. The exchange of information as necessary to facilitate a potential
contract award
SPD and DIR serve on what two interagency oversight teams? - ✔✔The
Contract Advisory Team (CAT) & Quality Assurance Team(QAT)
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) - ✔✔central authority for state
agency procurement guidance, education, and statewide contract
development services
Major contracts for information technology projects are monitored by the _.
- ✔✔Quality Assurance Team (QAT)
Major contracts are reviewed by _. - ✔✔Contract Advisory Team (CAT)
Procurement - ✔✔refers to all aspects of the sourcing activities, including
drafting and issuing the solicitation, evaluation of responses, selection of
successful respondents, the negotiation of contracts, and the actual
purchasing of goods or services.
Purchasing - ✔✔refers to the mechanical or administrative process of how
goods and services are ordered. Usually described as the transactional
function of the procurement process
Nepotism - ✔✔form of conflict of interest that involves an explicit act of
using one's position to favor a relative
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,The two classifications of Nepotism are: - ✔✔Consanguinity and Affinity
What is a consanguinity relationship? - ✔✔one established through
bloodlines
includes individuals related by blood to the official or employee
three degrees
1st: Parents, Children
2nd: Grandparents, Grandchildren, Brothers and Sisters
3rd: Great-Grandparents, Great-grandchildren, Nephews and Nieces,
Uncles and Aunts
What is a affinity relationship? - ✔✔arises by virtue of marriage
includes an officials or employee's spouse and individuals related to the
spouse
two degrees
1st: spouse, spouse's parents, Children's Spouses, Spouse's children
2nd: Spouse's grandparents, spouses grandchildren, spouse's brothers
and sisters, brothers and sister's spouses
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, Bribery - ✔✔if a person intentionally or knowingly offers, confers, or agrees
to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit as
consideration for a violation of public servants legal duty or a public
servants decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or any other exercise of
discretion.
T or F, A bribery offense can still occur even if the benefit is offered after
the employee has acting in a manner desired or after the employee has
ceased working for the state - ✔✔True
Bribery does not occur is the benefit is a political contribution - ✔✔True
Where do you report suspected fraud, waste or abuse? - ✔✔The State
Auditor's Office (SAO)
Allowable vendor-public procurement professional interactions between
response due date and contract award include what three things? - ✔✔1.
Clarification of respondent's ability to meet the solicitation requirements
2. Negotiations
3. The exchange of information as necessary to facilitate a potential
contract award
SPD and DIR serve on what two interagency oversight teams? - ✔✔The
Contract Advisory Team (CAT) & Quality Assurance Team(QAT)
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
