CONTRACTING OFFICER REPRESENTATIVE TEST PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔COR closeout responsibilities - ✔✔approved final invoice
verify invoice ledger
provides feedback to CO on contractor performance
checks contract file contents
reconciles financial records
retrieves gov't property
offboarding
✔✔ FAR - ✔✔Federal Acquisition Regulation
✔✔FAR must follow - ✔✔1) commit to fair and open competition
2) ensure responsible use of taxpayer money
3) maintain highest ethical standards
✔✔COR general responsibilities - ✔✔1) acquisition planning
2) market research
3) contract/performance management
✔✔COR traits - ✔✔technical expertise and familiarity with all aspects of the contract
✔✔COR specific duties - ✔✔1) furnish technical direction and monitor contract
performance
2) maintain independent relationship
3) ensure contractors are paid for authorized services/materials only
4) review, accept, and reject deliverables
✔✔OFPP - ✔✔Office of Federal Procurement Policy
✔✔mission of FAI - ✔✔ensure the development of a federal acquisition workforce
✔✔COR planning purpose - ✔✔1) validate identified need
2) establish requirements
3) develop elements of the acquisition plan
✔✔COR planning responsibilities - ✔✔1) assist with market research
2) define requirments
✔✔2 meanings of solicitation - ✔✔1) process of requesting bids from potential
contractors
2) physical document requesting bids from potential contractors (RFP, RFB, RFQ)
, ✔✔During solicitation, the gov't releases the following to industry - ✔✔1) request for
proposal (RFP)
2) request for bid (RFB)
3) request for quote (RFQ)
✔✔COR evaluation step - ✔✔1) assessment of proposal using criteria in RFP, RFB,
RFQ
2) evaluate nonprice factors
3) input in the TET summary report
✔✔COR award step - ✔✔1) CO issues execution contract signed by all parties
2) notify all unsuccessful parties
3) delegation letter and contract docs and forms given to the COR
✔✔COR post-award tasks - ✔✔1) monitor contractor performance
2) receive and approve invoices
3) assure contractor security
4) maintain documentation
5) assist with close-out
✔✔how do you know when to function as a COR or a PM? - ✔✔If contract, then PM. If
delegation letter, then COR
✔✔internal stakeholder - ✔✔any person, group or org whose interests will be directly
affected by the project
✔✔examples of internal stakeholder - ✔✔pm, co, cor, ipt, business sponsors, senior
leadership
✔✔external stakeholders - ✔✔benefit indirectly from the project
✔✔examples of external stakeholders - ✔✔contractors, legislators, taxpayers, veterans
✔✔IPT - ✔✔integrated product team
✔✔when is an IPT needed? - ✔✔projects valued above 7 million or projects that are
complex, carry technical risk, program risk or business risk
✔✔acquisition plan answers what questions - ✔✔1) what are we buying
2) does anyone make what we need?
3) how much are we willing to pay?
4) how will we go about getting bids?
5) how will we choose the vendor?
6) how will we guarantee we get what we paid for?
7) does it meet the requirements?
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔COR closeout responsibilities - ✔✔approved final invoice
verify invoice ledger
provides feedback to CO on contractor performance
checks contract file contents
reconciles financial records
retrieves gov't property
offboarding
✔✔ FAR - ✔✔Federal Acquisition Regulation
✔✔FAR must follow - ✔✔1) commit to fair and open competition
2) ensure responsible use of taxpayer money
3) maintain highest ethical standards
✔✔COR general responsibilities - ✔✔1) acquisition planning
2) market research
3) contract/performance management
✔✔COR traits - ✔✔technical expertise and familiarity with all aspects of the contract
✔✔COR specific duties - ✔✔1) furnish technical direction and monitor contract
performance
2) maintain independent relationship
3) ensure contractors are paid for authorized services/materials only
4) review, accept, and reject deliverables
✔✔OFPP - ✔✔Office of Federal Procurement Policy
✔✔mission of FAI - ✔✔ensure the development of a federal acquisition workforce
✔✔COR planning purpose - ✔✔1) validate identified need
2) establish requirements
3) develop elements of the acquisition plan
✔✔COR planning responsibilities - ✔✔1) assist with market research
2) define requirments
✔✔2 meanings of solicitation - ✔✔1) process of requesting bids from potential
contractors
2) physical document requesting bids from potential contractors (RFP, RFB, RFQ)
, ✔✔During solicitation, the gov't releases the following to industry - ✔✔1) request for
proposal (RFP)
2) request for bid (RFB)
3) request for quote (RFQ)
✔✔COR evaluation step - ✔✔1) assessment of proposal using criteria in RFP, RFB,
RFQ
2) evaluate nonprice factors
3) input in the TET summary report
✔✔COR award step - ✔✔1) CO issues execution contract signed by all parties
2) notify all unsuccessful parties
3) delegation letter and contract docs and forms given to the COR
✔✔COR post-award tasks - ✔✔1) monitor contractor performance
2) receive and approve invoices
3) assure contractor security
4) maintain documentation
5) assist with close-out
✔✔how do you know when to function as a COR or a PM? - ✔✔If contract, then PM. If
delegation letter, then COR
✔✔internal stakeholder - ✔✔any person, group or org whose interests will be directly
affected by the project
✔✔examples of internal stakeholder - ✔✔pm, co, cor, ipt, business sponsors, senior
leadership
✔✔external stakeholders - ✔✔benefit indirectly from the project
✔✔examples of external stakeholders - ✔✔contractors, legislators, taxpayers, veterans
✔✔IPT - ✔✔integrated product team
✔✔when is an IPT needed? - ✔✔projects valued above 7 million or projects that are
complex, carry technical risk, program risk or business risk
✔✔acquisition plan answers what questions - ✔✔1) what are we buying
2) does anyone make what we need?
3) how much are we willing to pay?
4) how will we go about getting bids?
5) how will we choose the vendor?
6) how will we guarantee we get what we paid for?
7) does it meet the requirements?
