Show Me the Money!
Everything begins and ends with me. I am the system you use to make requests and obligate money.
Global Acquisition and Assistance System (GLAAS)
All certified individuals MUST use this Learning Management System (LMS) to track the status of their A&A training and continuous learning.
What is FAI CSOD?
This Category Management term includes Tier 1, Tier 2, and Best in Class contracts.
What is SUM? (Spend Under Management)
These reviews, which make recommendations for mitigating risks associated with A&A operations in OAA and EXO offices, take place approximately every 5 years at USAID missions.
Procurement System Review
It takes 24 hours for GLAAS to transfer documents to this system, which stores all the agency’s procurement related files.
ASIST
The Acquisition Career Manager's (ACM) role is to oversee the development of the acquisition workforce, which includes identifying learning needs, strategies, and potential career development opportunities. This roles sits in this division.
What is the Professional Development and Training (PDT) division
This official has sole authority to ratify unauthorized commitments within USAID.
The M/OAA Director
Before making a responsibility determination for SAP awards you must check these sites.
SAM.gov and OFAC
These policies and regulations govern Personal Services Contracts (Name 3).
FAR, AIDAR, ADS 309, AAPDs
This is a request to add or change information to an existing award and results directly in an award modification.
Requisition for Modification
Starting May 1, 2024, certified FAC-C Professional staff have to maintain ____ CLPs and have ____ years to complete them.
What is 100 CLPs and 2 years?
This contract type should be used when issuing an award at or below the simplified acquisition threshold.
Firm Fixed Price
This is required to add funding to a PSC contract.
A Contract Modification
This M Bureau system tracks missing critical documents in ASIST.
Enterprise Reporting Portal
This model shows how a FAC-C Professional can grow in their learning over their career. It shows Professional, Practitioner, Advanced Practitioner and Expert.
What is the FAC-C Professional Maturity Model?
As of August 2017, the micropurchase and simplified acquisition thresholds (SAT) changed to these amounts (List both).
$10,000 and $250,000
These must be reported to the M/CFO Director, may be reviewed by OIG, and may still require a ratification.
Funds Control Violation
This form must be completed to add vendors to GLAAS who are not required to be registered in SAM.
Non-Employee Vendor Form
This type of continuous learning plays a crucial role in validating your skills and knowledge, enabling you to navigate the intricacies of the acquisition and assistance process with confidence and proficiency. It goes well beyond the fundamentals.
What is a credential?
Entering into a contract after a warrant expires is an example of this.
Unauthorized Commitment
When only one response is received for a competitive action, the EXO may base price reasonableness on several factors, to include _______ (List 3).
(1) Market research;
(2) Comparison of the proposed price with prices found reasonable on previous purchases;
(3) Current price lists, catalogs, or advertisements. However, inclusion of a price in a price list, catalog, or advertisement does not, in and of itself, establish fairness and reasonableness of the price;
(4) A comparison with similar items in a related industry;
(5) The contracting officer’s personal knowledge of the item being purchased;
(6) Comparison to an independent Government estimate; or
(7) Any other reasonable basis.
This USG-wide initiative is defined as "...the business practice of buying common goods and services as an enterprise to eliminate redundancies, increase efficiency, and deliver more value and savings from the Government's acquisition programs.”
Category Management