NJ QPA EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Define a 'Green Product' - ✔✔A commodity or service that has a lesser or reduced
negative effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing
commodities or services.
✔✔Define 'Green Purchasing' - ✔✔The practice of specifying products with
environmental attributes, such as reduced packaging, reduced toxicity, reusable, energy
efficiency, recycled, rebuilt or remanufactured.
✔✔Advantages of Green Purchasing - ✔✔1. Increase Worker Safety
2. Increased Awareness of Environmental Issues
3. Enhanced Communications between and Among Local Units
4. Opportunities for Resource Conservation
5. Long Term Reductions in Purchasing and Labor Costs
6. Providing a Safer Environment for the Public
✔✔Green purchasing delineation of duties include: - ✔✔1. Who designates products
and services as environmentally responsible? 2. Who establishes recycled content
standards? 3. Who develops the specs? 4. Who ensures that specs don't discriminate
against environmentally responsible products?
✔✔Green Purchasing encourages units to purchase products that: - ✔✔1. prevent
waste 2. reduce toxicity 3. contain recycled material 4. conserve energy 5. Reduce Cost
✔✔What is Value Analysis as it pertains to Green Purchasing? - ✔✔Balances
performance, cost and supply.
✔✔Why is Value Analysis used in Green Purchasing? - ✔✔1. maintain rising costs 2.
keep up with tech 3. satisfy customers 4. lower cost of ownership 5. improve quality
✔✔What standardizes and harmonizes the classification and labeling of chemicals? -
✔✔Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
✔✔What does the Energy Star System do? - ✔✔Promotes energy efficient products
through product labeling and consumer education.
✔✔Name five items that Energy Star System rates: - ✔✔1. Chillers 2. Boilers 3. Copiers
4. Computers 5. A/C
✔✔life-cycle analysis - ✔✔Decision based on the cost of the product over the life of the
product, not just initial costs.
, ✔✔Life cycle analysis compares the following: - ✔✔1. Initial Costs 2. Training Costs 3.
Operating and Maintenance Cost 4. Disposal Cost.
✔✔T/F: The Division recommends Mandatory Pre-Bid meetings. - ✔✔False. Not
specifically addresses in any statute, but the Division believes it is a hinderance to Free
and Open process.
✔✔Two forms of collusion are: - ✔✔1. Price Fixing 2. Bid Rigging
✔✔What is price fixing? - ✔✔Competitors agree to raise, fix or otherwise maintain
prices
✔✔What is Bid Rigging - ✔✔Competitors conspire to raise prices when bids are
solicited.
✔✔Types of Bid Rigging - ✔✔1. Bid Suppression 2. Complementary Bidding 3. Bid
Rotation 4. Market Division
✔✔Contracting Unit means - ✔✔Any county, municipality, board, commission,
committee, authority, or agency which has statutory powers to make purchases or enter
into contracts awarded by the contracting agent for the provision or performance of
goods or services.
✔✔governing body - ✔✔Of the county, municipality, board, commission, committee,
agency or authority
✔✔Contracting Agent - ✔✔The governing body or it's authorized designee, which has
the power to prepare the advertisements, to advertise and receive bids, and to make
awards for the contracting unit.
✔✔What are 'Professional Services' - ✔✔Authorized by law to practice and is regulated
by law. Is of a specialized nature requiring specialized training. Can also products or
services that are original and creative in nature in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.
✔✔Extraordinary Unspecifiable Services: - ✔✔Services which are specialized and
qualitative in nature requiring expertise, extensive training and proven reputation in the
field of endeavor.
✔✔Work includes: - ✔✔Services and any other activity of tangible or intangible nature
pursuant to a contract or agreement.
✔✔Define Aggregate. - ✔✔Sums expended or to be expended for the provision or
performance that has the same immediate purpose or task or furnishing of similar goods
and services, during the same contract year.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Define a 'Green Product' - ✔✔A commodity or service that has a lesser or reduced
negative effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing
commodities or services.
✔✔Define 'Green Purchasing' - ✔✔The practice of specifying products with
environmental attributes, such as reduced packaging, reduced toxicity, reusable, energy
efficiency, recycled, rebuilt or remanufactured.
✔✔Advantages of Green Purchasing - ✔✔1. Increase Worker Safety
2. Increased Awareness of Environmental Issues
3. Enhanced Communications between and Among Local Units
4. Opportunities for Resource Conservation
5. Long Term Reductions in Purchasing and Labor Costs
6. Providing a Safer Environment for the Public
✔✔Green purchasing delineation of duties include: - ✔✔1. Who designates products
and services as environmentally responsible? 2. Who establishes recycled content
standards? 3. Who develops the specs? 4. Who ensures that specs don't discriminate
against environmentally responsible products?
✔✔Green Purchasing encourages units to purchase products that: - ✔✔1. prevent
waste 2. reduce toxicity 3. contain recycled material 4. conserve energy 5. Reduce Cost
✔✔What is Value Analysis as it pertains to Green Purchasing? - ✔✔Balances
performance, cost and supply.
✔✔Why is Value Analysis used in Green Purchasing? - ✔✔1. maintain rising costs 2.
keep up with tech 3. satisfy customers 4. lower cost of ownership 5. improve quality
✔✔What standardizes and harmonizes the classification and labeling of chemicals? -
✔✔Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
✔✔What does the Energy Star System do? - ✔✔Promotes energy efficient products
through product labeling and consumer education.
✔✔Name five items that Energy Star System rates: - ✔✔1. Chillers 2. Boilers 3. Copiers
4. Computers 5. A/C
✔✔life-cycle analysis - ✔✔Decision based on the cost of the product over the life of the
product, not just initial costs.
, ✔✔Life cycle analysis compares the following: - ✔✔1. Initial Costs 2. Training Costs 3.
Operating and Maintenance Cost 4. Disposal Cost.
✔✔T/F: The Division recommends Mandatory Pre-Bid meetings. - ✔✔False. Not
specifically addresses in any statute, but the Division believes it is a hinderance to Free
and Open process.
✔✔Two forms of collusion are: - ✔✔1. Price Fixing 2. Bid Rigging
✔✔What is price fixing? - ✔✔Competitors agree to raise, fix or otherwise maintain
prices
✔✔What is Bid Rigging - ✔✔Competitors conspire to raise prices when bids are
solicited.
✔✔Types of Bid Rigging - ✔✔1. Bid Suppression 2. Complementary Bidding 3. Bid
Rotation 4. Market Division
✔✔Contracting Unit means - ✔✔Any county, municipality, board, commission,
committee, authority, or agency which has statutory powers to make purchases or enter
into contracts awarded by the contracting agent for the provision or performance of
goods or services.
✔✔governing body - ✔✔Of the county, municipality, board, commission, committee,
agency or authority
✔✔Contracting Agent - ✔✔The governing body or it's authorized designee, which has
the power to prepare the advertisements, to advertise and receive bids, and to make
awards for the contracting unit.
✔✔What are 'Professional Services' - ✔✔Authorized by law to practice and is regulated
by law. Is of a specialized nature requiring specialized training. Can also products or
services that are original and creative in nature in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.
✔✔Extraordinary Unspecifiable Services: - ✔✔Services which are specialized and
qualitative in nature requiring expertise, extensive training and proven reputation in the
field of endeavor.
✔✔Work includes: - ✔✔Services and any other activity of tangible or intangible nature
pursuant to a contract or agreement.
✔✔Define Aggregate. - ✔✔Sums expended or to be expended for the provision or
performance that has the same immediate purpose or task or furnishing of similar goods
and services, during the same contract year.
