Market Research
Choice of Instrument
Planning
Evaluation and Review
After/Before
100
The phase of the acquisition and assistance process where you conduct Market Research.
What is the Planning phase?
100
The principle purpose of the legal relationship
What is the fundamental consideration for choosing between acquisition and assistance?
100
An estimate used to ensure that the planned activity is commensurate with the funds available.
What is an Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) or Assistance Budget Estimate (ABE)?
100
Must have at least two members, majority voting members must be USAID staff, members must be free of or mitigated for potential OCI issues, must have requisite technical knowledge are some of the rules for this.
What is membership in a Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) or Selection Committee (SC)?
100
What the CO determines to be qualified offers for a competitive procurement based on the evaluations of the Technical Evaluation Committee?
What is competitive range?
200
Two types of existing awards that you might identify during planning to meet the needs of your mission and simplify the procurement process.
What are Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Leader with Associate Awards?
200
The only difference between a grant and a cooperative agreement
What is substantial involvement?
200
The Planner and the technical office are responsible for drafting statements that identify a significant and intended change in a development condition. Uni-dimensional, narrow and precise, people level, within the manageable interest of the awardee, and linked to USAID are some qualities of effective statements.
What are results statements?
200
What USAID uses to evaluate proposals submitted in response to a solicitation.
What are evaluation criteria?
200
The person in charge of the negotiations.
What is the contracting or agreement officer?
300
An office you'll meet with during Market Research to make sure that USAID is meeting business goals intended to grow the US Economy.
What is the Office for Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization?
300
An assistance award that supports a program with very specific elements and allows for performance without monitoring the actual costs incurred by the grantee
What is a Fixed Amount Award (FAA)?
300
The Initial Environmental Evaluation or Request for Categorical Exclusion must be completed by USAID before this can happen.
What is before the obligation of funds?
300
You ask for a branding and marking plan and a cost proposal from this applicant.
Who is the "apparent successful offeror"?
300
An offeror provides a written complaint to one of several government bodies asserting that USAID has violated procurement law or regulation in a solicitation for goods or services, or in the award of a contract.
What is a protest?
400
If you unknowingly assist a possible offeror by sharing draft statements of work with in-country contractors, by accidentally revealing proprietary information, or by encouraging a contractor who evaluated an activity to provide services requested as a result of that evaluation, you might be guilty of this.
What is Organizational and Consultant Conflict of Interest?
400
The type of pricing arrangement that places the most risk for cost and performance on the government.
What is a cost-reimbursement contract?
400
Metrics included in a contract or grant that are used to measure actual results compared to expected results.
What are performance indicators?
400
The four areas of mandatory evaluation for proposals.
What are cost/price, technical quality, past performance, and participation of small and disadvantaged businesses.
400
To provide offeror with a list of their weaknesses and deficiencies and all them to improve their proposal through a proposal revision.
What is the purpose of holding discussions or negotiations in a competitive acquisition environment?
500
Bias and Unfair Competitive Advantage
What are two principles of Organizational and Consultant Conflict of Interest?
500
The four areas of substantial involvement
What are approval of key personnel, approval of the work plan, joint participation and collaboration in areas where USAID expertise would assist success of activity, and ability to immediately halt construction?
500
The essential difference between a performance-based Performance Work Statement and a design-based Statement of Work.
What is the PWS focuses on what results the USG is seeking and the SOW focuses on fulfilling the specifications as spelled out by the USG?
500
When the USG shares information with an offeror to bring elements from one proposal into another and improve the program being proposed or when the USG shares information with an offeror to bring the proposal up the standards of another proposal.
What is technical transfusion or technical leveling?
500
When an applicant has never had a USG award, when there are questions about an applicant's financial system, when the applicant has a history of poor past performance, when the applicant has audit findings, etc.
What are some of the reasons why specific conditions may be placed on applicants?
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