CON200 The contracting officer is conducting a review to affirmatively determine Contractor Bs responsibility in order to award a contract to Contractor B. In her initial review, the contracting officer found that Contractor B seemed to meet all the standards of responsibility. When she checked the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS), she found that Contractor B is not presently on the excluded list. However, Contractor B has been debarred 10 times in the past 20 years. She determined this by checking the archive section within EPLS for past exclusions. Which statement is true regarding the contracting officers next move? My Options are:

1.The contracting officer MAY find Contractor B non-responsible based on an unsatisfactory record of integrity and business ethics.

2.The contracting officer MUST determine Contractor B to be non-responsible, since they have been on the EPLS.

3.The contracting officer MAY delegate the task of responsibility determination to the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), if she determines that agency deals more directly with Contractor B.

4.The contracting officer MUST determine Contractor B to be responsible since Contractor B is not currently on the EPLS and meets all the standards.