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The Materials Manager for the Utility department has to keep parts and materials in stock to maintain all 42 pump stations as well as all the infrastructure to keep the town citizens supplied with clean, pure, well water. This service has to be provided 24/7, and all essential maintenance, repair parts, and pumps must be readily available. These deep well pumps cost tens of thousands of dollars, but if they are maintained correctly, they can last over 10 years. What should be done with a decommi...

Inputs - ANSWER Measures resources used. They include labor, materials, equipment, and supplies. Demand for services may also be considered an input metric. Outputs - ANSWER Record activity or effort that can be expressed in a quantitative or qualitative manner. Outcomes - ANSWER Asses results of an activity and show whether expected results were achieved. Must be benchmarked against other departments and outside organizations. A benchmark is simply a point of reference that can be used as...

Legal and statutory requirements - ANSWER An agency is revising its document retention schedule. To what should the governmental entity look for guidance? Cooperative Contract - ANSWER An agency is looking into cooperative purchasing practices. After conducting some analysis, the agency would like to "piggyback" its purchases with other agencies that are participating in cooperative purchasing. When using a "piggyback" method, what would the arrangement be called? Instituting a purchas...

Fixed-Price Escalation/De-escalation - ANSWER The procurement officer of the governmental agency has expressed serious concerns about the number of repetitive requisitions, solicitations and purchase orders that are being processed to purchase gasoline for the organization. Every time a new order is placed, another requisition is created and the prices paid by each department are not consistent; sometimes more and sometimes less depending on competition and timing. The buyer advises that the sol...

Surety - ANSWER A pledge or guarantee by an insurance company, bank, individual, or corporation on behalf of the bidder/proposer to satisfy the contractual obligations. accountability - ANSWER the principle that employees who accept an assignment and the authority to carry it out are answerable to a superior for the outcome. acceptance - ANSWER 1. Indication that all parties to the contract agree to be bound by the terms of the contract. 2. An indication by one party of a willingness to ...

What does the procurement policy of an entity reflects? - ANSWER -The entity's legal system -The goals and values of the entity -Policies and practices federal-level entities use to acquire goods and services; this may not apply to state or local entities What should the overall purpose of a procurement policy manual be? - ANSWER -Establish the legal authority of the procurement function within the entity. -Simplify, clarify, and reflect the laws governing procurement -Enable uniform p...

Procurement Technology - ANSWER Helps accelerate business improvements Results Oriented Budgeting - ANSWER Attempts to link a resource allocation to performance criteria Budget Cycle - ANSWER 1. Planning 2. Formalization 3. implementation 4. evaluation Procurement Cards - ANSWER payment method whereby internal customers are empowered to deal directly with suppliers using a credit card Four principles of negotiation - ANSWER 1. separate people from the problem 2. create a variety of...

An entity purchases several different types of mobile phones to meet employees' preferences. This is causing inefficiencies. What action can be taken to address and correct the inefficiencies? - ANSWER Standardization A buyer has been invited to join a supplier account representative for lunch to discuss the performance of a contract. How should the buyer respond? - ANSWER Decline the supplier's offer and suggest a meeting in the office. A buyer has been working on a solicitation for sev...

Express the organization's purpose for existence - ANSWER An organization's mission statement should: Legal and statutory requirements - ANSWER An agency is revising its document retention schedule. To what should the governmental entity look for guidance? Cooperative Contract - ANSWER An agency is looking into cooperative purchasing practices. After conducting some analysis, the agency would like to "piggyback" its purchases with other agencies that are participating in cooperative pu...

FIXED-PRICE WITH ESCALATION/DE-ESCALATION - ANSWER The purchasing officer of the governmental agency has expressed serious concerns about the number of repetitive requisitions, solicitations and POs that are being processed to purchase gasoline for the organization. Every time a new order is placed, another requisition is created and the prices paid by each dept. are not consistent; sometimes more and sometimes less depending on competition and timing. The buyer advises that the solution would b...

An entity purchases several different types of mobile phones to meet employees' preferences. This is causing inefficiencies. What action can be taken to address and correct the inefficiencies? A. creation of performance specifications B. sole sourcing C. benchmarking D. standardization - ANSWER standardization A buyer has been invited to join a supplier account rep for lunch to discuss the performance of a contract. How should the buyer respond to the invitation? A. decline the supplier's o...

Cost Plus Percentage of Cost Contracts - ANSWER An agreement on a construction project in which the contractor is provided a specified percentage profit over and above the actual costs of construction. These contracts are considered poor business practice because the contractor has little incentive to hold down costs. The type of costing method is prohibited in Federal purchasing. Procurement - ANSWER Includes purchasing, contract administration, inventory, receiving and disposal. Integrit...

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Behavior and mental processes - ANSWER-Psychology is the scientific study of Philosophy and physiology - ANSWER-What are the "parent" fields for psychology? 125 - ANSWER-Psychology is about ___ years old Wundt - ANSWER-Who was the person who established psychology as a separate science? Consciousness - ANSWER-What was the subject of structuralism? Introspection - ANSWER-You volunteer to be a participant in a psychology experiment. The researcher asks you to carefully analyze how...

Breland and Breland trained pigs to carry wooden coins in their mouths to a piggy bank. This sequence was reinforced with food. After some weeks, however, the trained pigs began to root the coins with their noses, treating them like pieces of food. This can be best characterized as an example of: - ANSWER-instinctive drift Which of the following therapeutic interventions places the most emphasis on gaining insight into early childhood relationships? - ANSWER-psychoanalysis Lesions in Broca...

Lex Talionis - ANSWER-law of retaliation Hearsay evidence - ANSWER-An oral or written statement made by an out-of-court declarant that is later offered in court by a witness (not the declarant) concerning a matter before the court. Mala in Se Crimes - ANSWER-A descriptive term for acts that are inherently wrong, regardless of whether they are prohibited by law. Are acts that are regarded as wrong in themselves like murder and rape. Mala Prohibita Crimes - ANSWER-A descriptive term for a...

Which of the following is not a type of parasite drag? Induced Skin friction Form Interference - ANSWER-Induced When the cross sectional area of a fluid flow decreases, the fluid's velocity... - ANSWER-Increases What adjustment corrects for the increasing speed and angle of attack of propeller blade elements from hub to tip? - ANSWER-Blade Twist Where can the reference datum be located? Firewall Wing Root Spinner Tip Any of the above - ANSWER-any of the above If a 3,000 lb. ...

Broca's Aphasia - ANSWER-a condition characterized by difficulties in language production Wernicke's Aphasia - ANSWER-a condition marked by impaired recall of nouns and impaired language comprehension despite fluent and grammatical speech phoneme - ANSWER-a unit of sound morpheme - ANSWER-a unit of meaning word-superiority effect - ANSWER-identify the letter more accurately when it is part of a word then when it is presented by itself fixations - ANSWER-when your eyes are statio...

Adaptive vs. Innate Immune Response - ANSWER-Adaptive - "specific response" Has immunological memory Later response (3-7 days) Uses B and T cells Effectiveness increases with exposure Innate- "nonspecific response" 1st line of defense Response within 12 hours Lacks immunological memory Mutualism - ANSWER-Benefit to both partners Normally partners cannot live seperately Cooperation - ANSWER-A beneficial but not obligate form of symbiosis Commensalism - ANSWER-One partn...

isomers are two compounds with the same molecular formula that are different - ANSWER-what are isomers 1. Structural (constitutional) isomers 2. Stereoisomers (two types) - enantiomers and diasteromers 3. Geometric isomers (also known as cis and trans isomers) - ANSWER-What are the three types of isomers? different bonding arrangement of atoms. atoms are bonded together in a different sequence - ANSWER-what is a structural (constitutional) isomer? stereoisomers: atoms are bonded toget...