Question 1 The contracting officer on a multi-million-dollar, competitive services acquisition that is employing the trade-off process. CO is participating on the integrated process team (IPT) that is responsible for generating the evaluation factors that will be incorporated into the source selection plan and solicitation. Which statement below would be accurate advice to provide to the IPT? Group of answer choices The evaluation factors and subfactors should be generic and not tailored to the acquisition so the team can exercise broad discretion when making an award decision. Price or cost as well as a quality evaluation factor must be considered in every acquisition. The relative order of importance of the evaluation factors does not have to be specified in the solicitation.

Question 2 The agency received 10 proposals in response to a solicitation. Award will be made to the one offeror whose proposal represents the best value to the Government. After evaluating all of the proposals, the Government evaluation team determined that the number of acceptable proposals exceeded the number at which an efficient competition could be conducted. What action should the team now take? Group of answer choices Revise the evaluation criteria making the standards harder to attain, and then re-score the proposals. After the re-scoring, establish the competitive range. Seek clarifications with the offerors of the most highly rated proposals to discern more differences between them and then reduce the number of proposals accordingly. Consequently, the competitive range is smaller. Limit the number of proposals in the competitive range to the greatest number that will permit an efficient competition among the most highly rated proposals.

Question 3 Following the award of a contract, CO are preparing to host a post-award orientation conference to ensure that all parties clearly understand the contract. Which of the following items would likely be on the agenda? Group of answer choices Preaward survey process The payment process The acquisition planning and source selection process details

Question 4 The Government issued an RFP in which it stated the intention to award without discussions. After the closing date for receipt of proposals, Yellow informed the contracting officer that there was a problem with its proposal. Yellow acknowledged that its proposal did not satisfy solicitation requirements and requested that it be allowed to offer a different design to satisfy the solicitation requirements. The contracting officer conferred with Yellow and permitted Yellow to revise its proposal. Which statement is TRUE regarding the contracting officer's action? Group of answer choices Even if the agency found Yellow's proposal to be technically unacceptable, the agency was still required to consider Yellow's lower proposed price in its trade-off decision. The contracting officer's decision to allow Yellow to revise its proposal would be a protestable action if the other offerors were not given the same opportunity. The contracting officer's decision to accept a revised proposal from Yellow was appropriate even if the identified concerns were deficiencies and could only have been corrected through discussions.

Question 5 The IOSS source selection team has concluded its evaluation and is now preparing the documentation requested by the SSA. Which statement is true when performing a trade-off analysis for a source selection decision? Group of answer choices The rationale for a trade-off analysis must include documentation that quantifies the trade-offs that led to the decision. The SSA is bound by the technical evaluation reports and analyses prepared by the source selection panels and boards. The source selection decision must document the rationale for trade-offs, including benefits associated with additional cost.

Question 6 CO recently awarded a CPIF contract that covers six base functions. The awardee was the incumbent for three of those functions, but not on the others. Given this situation, CO have decided to have a post-award conference. At the conference, CO introduced the contracting officer's representative and the assistant representatives (one person with overall responsibility (COR) and one different person for each of the six functions). CO reviewed their letters of delegation and their assignments with them. Which one of the following statements would the contracting officer make? Group of answer choices The COR must understand the assessment strategies in the quality assurance surveillance plan. When the COR is unavailable for more than 24 hours, the assistants can perform any of the COR's assigned responsibilities to ensure that the work they are monitoring is completed. The COR can make changes to the contract terms and price structure for any of the functions.