Purchase
This is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products
What is a Purchase Order?
This procurement type is used when competition is inadequate or not feasible.
What is Sole Source?
This is the competitive method of solicitation that is not based exclusively on price.
What is a Request for Proposal (RFP)
The fuel CNG stands for what?
What is Compressed Natural Gas?
This is the system that FTA uses to manage grant applications, ongoing performance, and draw downs.
What is TrAMS?
BONUS: Transit Award Management Sys.
This is a comparison of a vendor's price to their own costs and an evaluation of the difference in direct costs, indirect costs, and profit.
What is a Cost Analysis?
Buy America requirements on transit agencies implemented by FTA apply to all contracts greater than what threshold?
What is $150,000?
The guidance Transit Authorities must follow for 3rd Party Contracting is located in this document.
What is the FTA Circular 4220.1F?
The term DBE, related to ensuring nondiscrimination in the award of DOT-assisted contracts, stands for?
What is Disadvantaged Business Enterprise?
The name of this group is TAPP, which stands for…
What is the Transit Alliance of Procurement Professionals?
This act requires the payment of prevailing wages to laborers and mechanics employed on federally assisted contracts for construction, alteration, or repair.
What is the Davis Bacon Act?
This calculation measures the number of extra revenue vehicles by the number of vehicles required for maximum service.
What is the spare ratio?
A major deviation from the original purpose or scope of a project, or when a contractor is required to perform very different work than described in the original contract.
What is a Cardinal Change?
The Common Grant Rule states that no employee, or immediate family member, pay participate in the selection, award, or management of a FTA contract. This would be what?
What is a Conflict of Interest?
Market research is conducted to determine the anticipated cost of an item or project prior to initiating a procurement and to evaluate the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a bid or proposal.
What is an Ice?
(Independent Cost Estimate)
Also known as the Selection of Architects and Engineers statute, this is a United States federal law that requires Government agencies to select engineering and architecture firms based upon their competency, qualifications and experience rather than by price.
What is the Brooks Act?
This is compensation that a contractor must pay to a recipient for measurable lost costs due to project delays.
What are Liquidated Damages?
This document tracks the useful life of capital assets to ensure that they remain in a state of good repair.
What is a replacement schedule? Or TAM Plan
During a competitive procurement, when a contract goal for DBE participation is set in order to achieve the agency's overall goal. This is referred to as using what?
What are Race-Conscious Means?
This is the Official U.S. Government system that entities are required to be registered with in order to bid on government contracts or receive grants.
What is SAM.gov?
BONUS: System for Award Management
This civil rights law was originally passed by Congress in 1990, and prohibits discrimination.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Where did the TAPP group eat dinner Thursday night?
What is Bricco's restaurant?
This plan is written when a recipient uses its own employees as a capital expense to carry out a capital project.
What is Force Account Plan?
These detailed policies and procedures are used to manage public funds and prevent waste, loss, or misuse of those funds.
What are Internal Controls?
The FTA issues this document each year which includes federal laws and regulations that apply to FTA assisted projects.
What is the Master Agreement?