PROC 5860 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
MID-TERM EXAM

Instructions: Please answer all questions in detail. One or two line responses are unacceptable.

1. What are acquisition plans designed to do:
Acquisition planning is designed to efficiently and effectively use resources to design and develop, or produce quality systems. This includes ensuring accomplishment of mission requirements; promoting the use of commercial items; enhancing full and open competition; enhancing the use of performance-based acquisition; promoting strategic sourcing through consolidation of requirements; limiting the use of high-risk acquisition authorities; increasing support of small businesses; and facilitating effective allocation and use of resources.

2. Performance-based acquisition method is the preferred method of procuring service with the exception of procuring what kind of services?

Performance-based acquisition is the preferred method for acquiring services, with the exception of the following services: architect-engineer services acquired in accordance with 40 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.; construction, utility services (see Part 41); or Services that are incidental to supply purchases, a firm-fixed price performance-based contract or task order, a performance-based contract or task order that is not firm-fixed price and a contract or task order that is not performance-based.

3. The federal acquisition and contracting source selection is the responsibility of whom? Who and what is the role of the source selection authority
Typically agency heads are ultimately responsible for source selection. The contracting officer is designated as the source selection authority unless the agency head appoints another individual for a particular acquisition or group of acquisitions. In DoD, the SSA must be an individual other than the PCO for acquisitions with a total