CPPB ACTUAL 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The agency has just awarded a contract for cleaning services in the headquarters
building. It is very important that the cleaning be done in a professional manner since
this is a high visibility area and receives a lot of the senior staff traffic throughout the
day. The contract was very detailed as to the standards to be met. What can the
Contract Administrator include in the performance assessment plan to ensure
compliance with the performance standards?
A. Value analysis
B. Surveillance techniques
C. Progress meetings
D. Final inspections - ✔✔B. Surveillance techniques
✔✔Name three basic types of files that should be maintained by a procurement office. -
✔✔· Solicitation Files (award documents, evaluation documents, solicitation, etc.)
· Contract Files (executed contract, required bonds, insurance certificates, etc.)
· Personnel Files
✔✔Several divisions within a government entity purchase equipment to do similar work.
Each division has its favorite type of equipment. What process would increase efficiency
and savings across the divisions?
A. Use of p-cards
B. Cooperative purchasing
C. Standardization
D. Bench-marking - ✔✔C. Standardization
✔✔Indemnification clauses are added to our terms and conditions to protect the agency
from:
A. The acts of the vendor
B. The acts of the agency
C. The acts of third parties
D. The acts of our customers - ✔✔A. The acts of the vendor
✔✔Name two methods or things to consider in dealing with tie low bids, both of which
are responsive and responsible. - ✔✔Two things to consider in dealing with tie low bids
are small business concerns that are also labor surplus area concerns, local preference,
if they are still equal drawing by lot.
✔✔Under which of the following does the agency own the goods in transit?
A. FOB destination, freight collect
,B. FOB destination, freight prepaid and added
C. FOB destination, freight prepaid and allowed
D. FOB origin - ✔✔D. FOB origin
✔✔Other than rules, regulations, policies and procedures, name at least three specific
things that should be found in a procurement manual. - ✔✔Duties of staff
Signing authorities
Guidelines on receiving and inspection
✔✔Agencies not following their process, lack of clarity in bid documents and a
perception of not being fair are some of the reasons vendors give for:
A. Not registering with the agency
B. Not responding to solicitations
C. Ignoring phone calls and emails
D. Filing protests of awards - ✔✔D. Filing protests of awards
✔✔A warehouse manager received a bill charging him $200 related to demurrage.
What is demurrage and/or why did he get charged? - ✔✔Demurrage is a fee charged by
a carrier against a consignee, consignor, or other responsible party to compensate for
the detention of the carrier's equipment in excess of allowable free time for loading,
unloading, re-consigning, or stopping in transit. The term is also used by suppliers of
material delivered in a variety of returnable containers, such as gas cylinders, rail
containers and equipment.
✔✔Program budgets:
A. Relate expenditures and revenues to each other.
B. Relate expenditures and revenues to public goals.
C. Relate expenditures and revenues to workloads.
D. Relate expenditures and revenues to line item accounts. - ✔✔B. Relate expenditures
and revenues to public goals.
✔✔Please put these items in their normal, proper sequence (not your agency's):
Addendum; Closing date; draft solicitation review by department; short-listing;
Board/commission approval of award; oral presentations by vendors.
Extra credit: what kind of solicitation is being discussed here? - ✔✔Draft solicitation
review by department
Addendum
Closing date
Short-listing
Oral presentations by vendors
Board/commission approval of award
, Extra Credit: The solicitation being discussed is a Request for Proposals (RFP)
✔✔Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the failure of a seller to deliver contracted
goods would allow the buyer to:
A. Obtain them from the next lowest bidder.
B. Obtain them at the current market price and charge the seller the difference.
C. Cancel the contract and rebid.
D. Invoke liquidated damages. - ✔✔B. Obtain them at the current market price and
charge the seller the difference.
✔✔The four types of fixed price contracts are:
A. Firm, percentage, incentive and escalation.
B. Firm, escalation, incentive and redetermination.
C. Percentage, escalation, redetermination and firm.
D. Cost sharing, escalation, incentive and percentage. - ✔✔B. Firm, escalation,
incentive and redetermination.
✔✔A solicitation document currently on the street contains a clause that has been
revised by an addendum, which then turns out to be incorrect.
What happens if the bid opening date hasn't occurred yet?
What happens if the bids have been opened? - ✔✔If the bid opening date hasn't
occurred yet I would do another addendum with the correct information. If the bids have
been opened I would cancel the solicitation and re-issue with the correct information.
✔✔Some agencies provide monetary assistance to qualified citizens by the use of
smart cards. What is a smart card and how does it work? - ✔✔A smart card is an
electronic wallet with an embedded chip that stores data including an individual's
complete personnel and medical records.
✔✔A buyer is charged with purchasing diesel fuel for a transit system. What type of
study should be conducted to determine how best to make this purchase?
A. Value analysis
B. Vendor selection
C. Demand analysis
D. Market analysis - ✔✔D. Market analysis
✔✔Careless County recently lost an important court case in the State Supreme Court.
The court decision will now impact every county in the state, and the decision may be
used to argue other cases as well in other jurisdictions in the future. The type of law
developed through court case decisions is known as:
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The agency has just awarded a contract for cleaning services in the headquarters
building. It is very important that the cleaning be done in a professional manner since
this is a high visibility area and receives a lot of the senior staff traffic throughout the
day. The contract was very detailed as to the standards to be met. What can the
Contract Administrator include in the performance assessment plan to ensure
compliance with the performance standards?
A. Value analysis
B. Surveillance techniques
C. Progress meetings
D. Final inspections - ✔✔B. Surveillance techniques
✔✔Name three basic types of files that should be maintained by a procurement office. -
✔✔· Solicitation Files (award documents, evaluation documents, solicitation, etc.)
· Contract Files (executed contract, required bonds, insurance certificates, etc.)
· Personnel Files
✔✔Several divisions within a government entity purchase equipment to do similar work.
Each division has its favorite type of equipment. What process would increase efficiency
and savings across the divisions?
A. Use of p-cards
B. Cooperative purchasing
C. Standardization
D. Bench-marking - ✔✔C. Standardization
✔✔Indemnification clauses are added to our terms and conditions to protect the agency
from:
A. The acts of the vendor
B. The acts of the agency
C. The acts of third parties
D. The acts of our customers - ✔✔A. The acts of the vendor
✔✔Name two methods or things to consider in dealing with tie low bids, both of which
are responsive and responsible. - ✔✔Two things to consider in dealing with tie low bids
are small business concerns that are also labor surplus area concerns, local preference,
if they are still equal drawing by lot.
✔✔Under which of the following does the agency own the goods in transit?
A. FOB destination, freight collect
,B. FOB destination, freight prepaid and added
C. FOB destination, freight prepaid and allowed
D. FOB origin - ✔✔D. FOB origin
✔✔Other than rules, regulations, policies and procedures, name at least three specific
things that should be found in a procurement manual. - ✔✔Duties of staff
Signing authorities
Guidelines on receiving and inspection
✔✔Agencies not following their process, lack of clarity in bid documents and a
perception of not being fair are some of the reasons vendors give for:
A. Not registering with the agency
B. Not responding to solicitations
C. Ignoring phone calls and emails
D. Filing protests of awards - ✔✔D. Filing protests of awards
✔✔A warehouse manager received a bill charging him $200 related to demurrage.
What is demurrage and/or why did he get charged? - ✔✔Demurrage is a fee charged by
a carrier against a consignee, consignor, or other responsible party to compensate for
the detention of the carrier's equipment in excess of allowable free time for loading,
unloading, re-consigning, or stopping in transit. The term is also used by suppliers of
material delivered in a variety of returnable containers, such as gas cylinders, rail
containers and equipment.
✔✔Program budgets:
A. Relate expenditures and revenues to each other.
B. Relate expenditures and revenues to public goals.
C. Relate expenditures and revenues to workloads.
D. Relate expenditures and revenues to line item accounts. - ✔✔B. Relate expenditures
and revenues to public goals.
✔✔Please put these items in their normal, proper sequence (not your agency's):
Addendum; Closing date; draft solicitation review by department; short-listing;
Board/commission approval of award; oral presentations by vendors.
Extra credit: what kind of solicitation is being discussed here? - ✔✔Draft solicitation
review by department
Addendum
Closing date
Short-listing
Oral presentations by vendors
Board/commission approval of award
, Extra Credit: The solicitation being discussed is a Request for Proposals (RFP)
✔✔Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the failure of a seller to deliver contracted
goods would allow the buyer to:
A. Obtain them from the next lowest bidder.
B. Obtain them at the current market price and charge the seller the difference.
C. Cancel the contract and rebid.
D. Invoke liquidated damages. - ✔✔B. Obtain them at the current market price and
charge the seller the difference.
✔✔The four types of fixed price contracts are:
A. Firm, percentage, incentive and escalation.
B. Firm, escalation, incentive and redetermination.
C. Percentage, escalation, redetermination and firm.
D. Cost sharing, escalation, incentive and percentage. - ✔✔B. Firm, escalation,
incentive and redetermination.
✔✔A solicitation document currently on the street contains a clause that has been
revised by an addendum, which then turns out to be incorrect.
What happens if the bid opening date hasn't occurred yet?
What happens if the bids have been opened? - ✔✔If the bid opening date hasn't
occurred yet I would do another addendum with the correct information. If the bids have
been opened I would cancel the solicitation and re-issue with the correct information.
✔✔Some agencies provide monetary assistance to qualified citizens by the use of
smart cards. What is a smart card and how does it work? - ✔✔A smart card is an
electronic wallet with an embedded chip that stores data including an individual's
complete personnel and medical records.
✔✔A buyer is charged with purchasing diesel fuel for a transit system. What type of
study should be conducted to determine how best to make this purchase?
A. Value analysis
B. Vendor selection
C. Demand analysis
D. Market analysis - ✔✔D. Market analysis
✔✔Careless County recently lost an important court case in the State Supreme Court.
The court decision will now impact every county in the state, and the decision may be
used to argue other cases as well in other jurisdictions in the future. The type of law
developed through court case decisions is known as:
