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?
Type of warrant authority is listed in FAR Part 42.302(b)(11)
What is an Administrative Warrant
Primary federal regulation and supplemental Agency regulation that govern USAID’s assistance awards?
What are 2 CFR 200 and 2 CFR 700?
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
Type of Funds that will be removed by the Treasury Department if they are not disbursed or deobligated by September 30.
What are Cancelling Funds?
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 federal awards you must check these sites.
SAM.gov and OFAC
This is the basis upon which an entity allocates indirect costs.
What is an allocation base
This documentation provides the basis for the review of and negotiation leading to the establishment of an organization’s indirect cost rate.
What is an Indirect Cost Rate Proposal
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?
You can’t deviate from (or make exceptions to) this
What is a Statute
In the absence of effective price competition and if price analysis is not sufficient
What is Cost Analysis
This is the best way to be sure you are looking at the current version of an ADS chapter.
What is the USAID internet page which lists all ADS chapters?
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?
Authorized to enter into an A&A instrument above your warrant authority.
What is an Ad Hoc delegation
This contract type shall not be used
What is a cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting
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
Generally, Government contracts contain a clause that permits the contracting officer to make unilateral changes, in designated areas, within the general scope of the contract.
What is to issue written change orders
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