1. Which of the following is a core ethical principle
for government and contractor acquisition
professionals?
2. Government and contractor personnel work Contractor personnel
closely together as an integrated team on the may attend a
new Viper weapons system. Which of the Government of- fice
following statements about their interaction is
picnic, so long as the
true?
time spent attending
the event is not
charged to the
3. You are a Government Program Manager, and
you suspect the contractor's test results stated in Government.
the new procurement proposal are inaccurate.
You should: Inform the KO of your
find- ings
4. Fill in the blanks: _ includes communications on behalf Coercion, Federal
(Incor-
of another person made with the intent to influencerect)a
_ employee
5. You are a contracting officer who awarded a con-
tract for $1million to the ACME Coporation twenty-
six months ago and have had no other interaction
with the ACME Coporation since that time. You did
not ad- minister the contract (or oversee
administration of teh contract), as that duty was
passed to another Govern- ment contracting
officer. You are about to retire and would like to
apply to ACME for employment. Which of the
following is true?
6. A retired Colonel in the Army has been hired by
ACME Corporation, Aviation Weapons Division, to
be an ex- pert consultant for all new weapons
procurement ac- tivity. Fourteen months prior to
his last official role
in the Army, the Colonel was the Chief Contracting
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Officer for all new weapons procurement activity.
You are the Program Manager for the
Government on
an upcoming new weapons procurement project.
You should:
You must immediately
7. You are a KO and you have just finished
evaluating the initial offers of several companies re- port the details of
competing for award of a contract to design and the con- versation you
construct a new Air to Ground missile. Three had with the ACME
companies, ACME, Beta and Charlie, have Project Manager in
submitted offers and you discuss the strengths
and weaknesses of the initial propos- als with writing to your
each company individually. At the close of face- supervisor and to the
to-face discussions with ACME, the ACME Project ethics oflcer.
Manager asks whether you have ever had any
interest
in working in the private sector, noting that "we
make a lot more money than you do." Concerned
that this might be an employment disc, you ask
whether he is offering you a job. The Project
Manager replies, Oh, no; I don't have any authority
to make job offers. But here is the phone number
for our Personnel Director. I'll tell her to expect
your call." You declare, "Absolutely not! I am
happy working for the Government." Which of the
following actions is correct
8. One goal of ethics for government acquisition
profes- sionals is to:
Avoid even the
appearance of
impropriety.
9. The intentional disclosure of an offeror's propsed cost - A violation that could
get
and techinical information prior to contract award is:you reported to the Head
of Contracting
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