CON 1100 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED
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✔✔Deviations - ✔✔1. Individual: Affects only one contract action
2. Class: Affects more than one contract action
✔✔What is a provision? - ✔✔A written term or condition used only in SOLICITATIONs
and applies only before contract award.
✔✔What is a clause? - ✔✔A term or condition that is used in a Solicitation and a
Contract
✔✔Uniform Contract Format (UCF) - ✔✔Consists of four parts (FAR 15.204):
Part I - The Schedule (Sections A-H)
Part II - Contract Clauses (Section I)
Part III - List of Documents, Exhibits, and Other Attachments (Section J)
Part IV - Representations and Instructions (Sections K-M)
✔✔UCF Section L - ✔✔Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors or
Respondents (FAR Tables 14-1 and 15-1): Provides provisions and other information
and instructions not required elsewhere to guide offerors in preparing proposals
✔✔UCF Section M - ✔✔M Evaluation Factors for Award: Identifies all significant factors
and any significant subfactors that will be considered in awarding the contract and their
relative importance
✔✔The Defense Acquisition Workforce is consolidated into 6 functional areas: - ✔✔1.
Program Management
2. Engineering
3. Test & Evaluation
4. Contracting
5. Life Cycle Logistics
6. Business Financial Management/Cost Estimating
✔✔§What are the three enabling conditions for cohesive teams? - ✔✔1. Compelling
Direction
2. Strong Structure
3. Supportive Context
✔✔Four (4) common threads amongst high performing teams to make timely decisions
and solve complex problems: - ✔✔1. Regular and effective communication
2. Utilizing team resources effectively
3. Clear decision-making process
4. Identifying opportunities for improvement
, ✔✔Three parts of communication - ✔✔1. Sender
2. Message
3. Audience
✔✔For communication to be successful, the audience must not only get the message,
but: - ✔✔must interpret the message in the way the sender intended
✔✔Principles of Effective Communication - ✔✔Focused
Organized
Clear
Understanding
Supported
✔✔Address the Issue, the Whole Issue, and Nothing but the Issue - ✔✔Focused
✔✔Systematically Present Your Information and Ideas - ✔✔Organized
✔✔Communicate with Clarity and Make Each Word Count - ✔✔Clear
✔✔Understand Your Audience and Its Expectations - ✔✔Understanding
✔✔Use Logic and Support to Make Your Point - ✔✔Supported
✔✔Focus - ✔✔REMEMBER
It doesn't matter if you are sending an email, on a phone call, giving a briefing, or
documenting the contract file; you should always employ the five FOCUS principles in
your contracting career.
✔✔True or False. Our brains can be retrained through many techniques to unlearn
biases, and research is ongoing in that area - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False. Once you realize you may be biased, you will be less likely to
automatically dismiss data that's not consistent with your personal philosophy - ✔✔True
✔✔DoD Inspector General Report No. 2020-085 - ✔✔Contracting officials have a
responsibility to maintain proper documentation IAW Federal and DoD regulations and
shall implementing the measures to ensure that adequate documentation is maintained
to:
1. Ensure that contracting personnel are keeping documentation of important decisions
in the contract file
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✔✔Deviations - ✔✔1. Individual: Affects only one contract action
2. Class: Affects more than one contract action
✔✔What is a provision? - ✔✔A written term or condition used only in SOLICITATIONs
and applies only before contract award.
✔✔What is a clause? - ✔✔A term or condition that is used in a Solicitation and a
Contract
✔✔Uniform Contract Format (UCF) - ✔✔Consists of four parts (FAR 15.204):
Part I - The Schedule (Sections A-H)
Part II - Contract Clauses (Section I)
Part III - List of Documents, Exhibits, and Other Attachments (Section J)
Part IV - Representations and Instructions (Sections K-M)
✔✔UCF Section L - ✔✔Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors or
Respondents (FAR Tables 14-1 and 15-1): Provides provisions and other information
and instructions not required elsewhere to guide offerors in preparing proposals
✔✔UCF Section M - ✔✔M Evaluation Factors for Award: Identifies all significant factors
and any significant subfactors that will be considered in awarding the contract and their
relative importance
✔✔The Defense Acquisition Workforce is consolidated into 6 functional areas: - ✔✔1.
Program Management
2. Engineering
3. Test & Evaluation
4. Contracting
5. Life Cycle Logistics
6. Business Financial Management/Cost Estimating
✔✔§What are the three enabling conditions for cohesive teams? - ✔✔1. Compelling
Direction
2. Strong Structure
3. Supportive Context
✔✔Four (4) common threads amongst high performing teams to make timely decisions
and solve complex problems: - ✔✔1. Regular and effective communication
2. Utilizing team resources effectively
3. Clear decision-making process
4. Identifying opportunities for improvement
, ✔✔Three parts of communication - ✔✔1. Sender
2. Message
3. Audience
✔✔For communication to be successful, the audience must not only get the message,
but: - ✔✔must interpret the message in the way the sender intended
✔✔Principles of Effective Communication - ✔✔Focused
Organized
Clear
Understanding
Supported
✔✔Address the Issue, the Whole Issue, and Nothing but the Issue - ✔✔Focused
✔✔Systematically Present Your Information and Ideas - ✔✔Organized
✔✔Communicate with Clarity and Make Each Word Count - ✔✔Clear
✔✔Understand Your Audience and Its Expectations - ✔✔Understanding
✔✔Use Logic and Support to Make Your Point - ✔✔Supported
✔✔Focus - ✔✔REMEMBER
It doesn't matter if you are sending an email, on a phone call, giving a briefing, or
documenting the contract file; you should always employ the five FOCUS principles in
your contracting career.
✔✔True or False. Our brains can be retrained through many techniques to unlearn
biases, and research is ongoing in that area - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False. Once you realize you may be biased, you will be less likely to
automatically dismiss data that's not consistent with your personal philosophy - ✔✔True
✔✔DoD Inspector General Report No. 2020-085 - ✔✔Contracting officials have a
responsibility to maintain proper documentation IAW Federal and DoD regulations and
shall implementing the measures to ensure that adequate documentation is maintained
to:
1. Ensure that contracting personnel are keeping documentation of important decisions
in the contract file
