FREE BUSINESS AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CTCD TEST

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FREE BUSINESS AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CTCD TEST

2025 Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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Question 1: What is the Statewide Procurement Division and what do they do?

Answer:

• the state's central authority for the procurement of non-IT goods and services
• manages statewide contracts and exercises procurement authority delegation/delegates purchasing

authority to state agencies

• provides guidance on procurement practices

Question 2: What are the three improper Negotiation activities?

Answer:

Technical Leveling, Technical Transfusion, Prohibited Auctioneering

Question 3: What is the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD)?

Answer:

used to post solicitations to inform potential vendors of contracting opportunities and provides public notice of awards

Question 4: Where do we advertise solicitations and notices of award valued over $25,000?

Answer:

on the ESBD; this helps increase competition, reduces costs to the state, and provides transparency

Question 5: What is the TXMAS Threshold for $0.00-$50,000?

Answer:

Directly award a PO to a chosen vendor (without submitting a price request to other contractors in the same category)

Question 6: Who claims Preferences on the solicitation form?

Answer:

• these must be claimed by the vendor by marking the appropriate preference on the form
• Reciprocal Preference Law
• Resolving Bid Ties

Question 7: Which procurement method would be used to procure the services of the most highly skilled architect available to design a new building?

Answer:

Request for Qualifications

Question 8: When must a letter of delegation from SPD be received?

Answer:

Prior to posting the solicitation on the ESBD

Question 9: What is a Deliverable?

Answer:

A measurable task or outcome (product or service, ex. a status report, performance or financial report, a time sheet)

Question 10: What are the five branches of SPD?

Answer:

Procurement Policy and Outreach, Contract Development, Contract Management, Historically Underutilized Business (HUB), and Statewide Fleet, Travel, and Mail

Question 11: Why would an Agency Initiate Vendor Communication After the Solicitation is Posted?

Answer:

• if there is a pre-bid conference option
• if there is a written questions and answers (Q&A) period, where the agency benefits from vendors'

input to make any necessary corrections to the solicitation through the addendum process

Question 12: Why are Terms and Conditions so important?

Answer:

When these are clearly stated, they protect the agency from unintended risk.

Question 13: What are the best practices for negotiation?

Answer:

Agency should select employees with effective negotiation, communication skills; members should be chosen, or excluded, based on leadership style, negotiation skills, subject matter expertise

Question 14: What factors would lead you to file a TCI Waiver Request?

Answer:

price, not able to meet delivery date, precise specifications

Question 15: What are the steps of the Procurement Cycle?

Answer:

Procurement Planning, Procurement Method Determination, Vendor Selection, Contract Formation & Award, Contract Management

Question 16: What are the State Use Program Exceptions?

Answer:

Agencies are not required to purchase products and services under the following circumstances: Quality, Quantity, Life Cycle Costs, and Delivery Time. PRICE IS NOT AN EXCEPTION.

Question 17: What is the purpose of the Acquisition Plan?

Answer:

It can serve to bridge the gap between Contract Developers and Contract Managers. Document the solicitation process, assign roles and responsibilities, create a calendar of events, and identify high risk items.

Question 18: What are the aspects of Performance-Focused Negotiations?

Answer:

• both parties are willing to compromise; the goal: focus on performance results, mutually beneficial, a

win-win situation

• if the procurement objectives are changed through the negotiation process, an un-level playing field

occurs. Seek legal counsel.

Question 19: Define Certainty of Subject Matter

Answer:

To be enforceable, the parties must have agreed on the essential terms of the contract. A contract is legally binding only if the essential terms are sufficiently defined to enable a court to understand the parties' obligations.

Question 20: How should the vendor questions be addressed?

Answer:

They are compiled, accounted for (even if they are similar) and redacted for vendor anonymity.Questions are not edited for spelling or grammatical errors and the Agency publishes the answers to the ESBD.

Question 21: What is the bid tabulation subject to after contract award?

Answer:

Open Records Question 22: This method is recommended for procuring non-IT goods and services when factors other than price are to be considered, negotiations are desired, and it is required that the vendor provides innovative ideas to the agency.

Answer:

Request for Proposals

Question 23: What are the Legal Elements of a Contract?

Answer:

Offer, Acceptance, Legal Purpose, Consideration, Certainty of Subject Matter, Competent Parties

Question 24: Where do you put in orders for TXMAS?

Answer:

Texas SmartBuy, unless Offline Sales are permitted