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100

Referees for youth sports.

Who is Phil?

100

Latin for "in good faith", it signifies "honesty" and "the real thing".

What is bona fide?

100

Supports the national map with topographic and geophysical, hydrographic and other data.

Who is NGTOC?

100

The term for the purchase of supplies or services or giving a contractor an order to start work by someone who lacked the authority to do so.

What is an unauthorized commitment?

100
OAG's term for goods or services that require special approvals, documentation, requisitioning or ordering procedures.
What is Distinctive Items?
200

Previously owned a furniture store.

Who is Don?

200

Identifies a party excluded from receiving federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain types of federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits

What is exclusions?

200

The only national center dedicated to wildlife disease detection, control, and prevention in the United States.

Who is the National Wildlife Health Center?

200

Has the authority to ratify an unauthorized commitment.

Who is the HCA?

200
Distributed at meetings, conferences and job fairs, they must inform/educate on an initiative or an appropriated program; purchases must include a compelling business and mission-related reason to buy them.
What are Promotional Items?
300

Owns a dog named Thor.

Who is Karen?

300
The contracting term for a change that differs from the requirements of the original contract.
What is out-of-scope?
300

This center utilizes scientific information to restore, enhance, manage, and protect the living resources and habitats in the Great Lakes basin.

Who is the Great Lakes Science Center?

300

The party responsible for paying for an unauthorized commitment.

Who is the person who made it?

300
The USGS Visual Identity is subject to strict controls on its use and application because it is this.
What is a registered trademark®?
400

Worked at USGS the longest.

Who is Yvette?

400
Rather than micromanaging the details of how contractors operate, it sets the standards, sets the results and gives the contractor the freedom to achieve it in the best way.
What is Performance-Based Acquisition?
400

A world-class environmental analysis and research laboratory located on the campus of the Denver Federal Center.

Who is the National Water Quality Lab?

400

The process of approving an unauthorized purchase after-the-fact, it must prove that the purchase was a proper use of appropriated funds.

What is ratification?

400
It's why nonmonetary awards cannot be presented to contractor employees.
What is ineligibility?
500

Will be greatly missed upon retirement.

Who is Annie?

500
Work that must be performed by federal government employees and cannot be performed by contractors.
What are inherently governmental functions?
500

Monitors and reports on earthquakes, assesses earthquake impacts and hazards, and conducts targeted research on the causes and effects of earthquakes.

Who is Earthquakes Hazards Program?

500

Potential consequences to employees making unauthorized commitments.

What is paying out of pocket, supervisory reprimand and/or adverse personnel action?

500
Consolidating buying opportunities across the Government; economies of scale realized by pooling requirements, centralizing agency contracting decisions and maximizing use of government-wide contracts.
What is Strategic Sourcing?