CTCD EXAM 2025
Which Texas agency provides purchasing support and procurement
oversight? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Texas Comptroller of Public
Accounts (CPA)
Which SPD team promotes equal business opportunities to remedy
disparity in state procurement? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB)
Are the Agency Contract Management Procedures only important for
Contract Managers to know? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️No, the
Contract Developers also need to know their agency processes and
procedures.
Which SPD team provides customer support for Texas SmartBuy and
other applications used by state agencies? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Outreach
,Who creates the statewide term contracts within SPD? - Correct
Answer ✔️✔️Contract Development Team
Applications Supported by SPD - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Texas
SmartBuy
ESBD
CMBL
VPTS
Texas SmartBuy - Correct Answer ✔️✔️the State's central
eProcurement system for non-IT goods and services.
Agencies and local governments utilize the web-based ordering system
to access hundreds of competitively bid and awarded state contracts.
Think of Amazon
Programs within Texas SmartBuy - Correct Answer ✔️✔️ESBD
,CMBL
VPTS
Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Used to post solicitations to inform potential vendors of contracting
opportunities and provides public notice of awards,
This helps increase competition, reduces costs to the state, and
provides transparency.
SPD recommends advertising a solicitation for 30 days or longer.
$25,000k+
Think of Craigslist
, Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL) - Correct Answer ✔️✔️An
online directory of vendors interested in working with the State of
Texas
Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS) - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️The VPTS collects vendor performance reports from agencies.
It allows agencies to
Score vendors (A-F)
Track vendor performance
Provide information about vendor performance to contract developers.
Ethics Laws and Professional Standards - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️State Ethics Policy
Conflict of Interest
Nepotism
Appearance of Impropriety
Which Texas agency provides purchasing support and procurement
oversight? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Texas Comptroller of Public
Accounts (CPA)
Which SPD team promotes equal business opportunities to remedy
disparity in state procurement? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB)
Are the Agency Contract Management Procedures only important for
Contract Managers to know? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️No, the
Contract Developers also need to know their agency processes and
procedures.
Which SPD team provides customer support for Texas SmartBuy and
other applications used by state agencies? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Outreach
,Who creates the statewide term contracts within SPD? - Correct
Answer ✔️✔️Contract Development Team
Applications Supported by SPD - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Texas
SmartBuy
ESBD
CMBL
VPTS
Texas SmartBuy - Correct Answer ✔️✔️the State's central
eProcurement system for non-IT goods and services.
Agencies and local governments utilize the web-based ordering system
to access hundreds of competitively bid and awarded state contracts.
Think of Amazon
Programs within Texas SmartBuy - Correct Answer ✔️✔️ESBD
,CMBL
VPTS
Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Used to post solicitations to inform potential vendors of contracting
opportunities and provides public notice of awards,
This helps increase competition, reduces costs to the state, and
provides transparency.
SPD recommends advertising a solicitation for 30 days or longer.
$25,000k+
Think of Craigslist
, Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL) - Correct Answer ✔️✔️An
online directory of vendors interested in working with the State of
Texas
Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS) - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️The VPTS collects vendor performance reports from agencies.
It allows agencies to
Score vendors (A-F)
Track vendor performance
Provide information about vendor performance to contract developers.
Ethics Laws and Professional Standards - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️State Ethics Policy
Conflict of Interest
Nepotism
Appearance of Impropriety
