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| Instructions to the Contractors and used to by offerors to prepare proposal. |
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| What contains evaluation factors that government uses to assess proposal and relative importance for each factor? |
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| What may or may not provide standards for each factor and sub-factor |
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| What is the definition of factors critical and decided in Source Selection Plan (SSP) |
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| What is relative imporantance needs that need to be respected? |
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| Source Selection Plan (SSP) and Section M |
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| What should be based upon requirements of SOO and SOW and systems specification? |
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| Source Selection Plan (SSP) and Section M |
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| What should contain criteria that allows evaluations to make meaningful discrimination among offers? |
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| Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) |
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| Who analyzes each proposal against RFP (Requirement)? |
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| Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) |
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| Who basis analysis on proposal as presented, not on how well you know the offeror? |
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| Source Selection Advisory Council (SSAC) |
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| Who compares proposals against each other? |
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| Source Selection Advisory Council (SSAC) |
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| Who makes recommendations for award to SSA (Source Selection Authority)? |
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| Source Selection Authority (SSA) |
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| Who makes the final decision for award? |
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| What is not based on a precise formula? |
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| A contractor is not in the position to say they are the ____ _____ - they don't know what other contractors have proposed. |
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| Does not always require the selection of the lowest price proposal. |
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| What must be made in accordance with Source Selection Plan (SSP) and RFP? |
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Including cost and price
Provides best solution to the government |
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| What is contractors proposals evaluated against all factors to include and provide what? |
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| Section L and Section M, strategy |
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| Prospective offerors will read Section ___ and ____ closely to discern government ______ in source selection evaluation. |
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Addresses all points of the RFP
Be timely
Be assessed by government has fair and reasonable prior to award |
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| What word not always makes it a valid question? |
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| This can not allow opportunity for offeror to augment their proposal |
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| What is the next phase to allow more exchange of information and allows offeror to revise proposal? |
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| EOA (Early Operational Assessment) |
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| What type of test has test articles of prototypes? |
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| EOA (Early Operational Assessment) |
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| What type of test has RDT&E funding and a pass/fail criteria? |
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| OA (Operational Assessement) |
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| What type of test has test articles of EDMs (Engineering Development Models) |
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| OA (Operational Assessement) |
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| What type of test has RDT&E funding, not pass/fail but acceptable performance? |
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| OA (Operational Assessement) |
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| What test type is MS C entrance criteria per DOD 5000.02 Encl 2, para 7.b.? |
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| IOT&E (Initial Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type has LRIP articles? |
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| IOT&E (Initial Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type has RDT&E funding, pass/fail? |
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| IOT&E (Initial Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type is where MDA must consider for FRPDR? |
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| FOT&E (Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type has test articles of Production or Modified Production? |
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| FOT&E (Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type is O&M funded primarily? |
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| FOT&E (Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation) |
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| What test type assess modificiations or development tactics? |
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Best balance of "performance, risk management, cost or price, and other factors"
Not formulaic
Not necessarily lowest price |
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Reports/responses required
Format
Specific info and specific program requirements, demonstrations, metrics and metric formulae
Other information required for bidder to estimate cost, schedule and risk |
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| Later causes greatest cost/schedule/technical risks, program executability can be compromised. |
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| If this is done early in the program it can generate the greatest effect on the program |
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| Defense Contract Management Agency |
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| Who manages most of the contracts awarded to defense contractors? |
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| Offerer's financial, organizational, and operational status |
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| What information can DCMA provide to the PM in the source selection process? |
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| Offerer's past performance with similiar types of acquisition |
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| What information can DCMA provide to the PM in the source selection process? |
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| Evaluating the merits of the offerer's proposed direct labor and material costs. |
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| What information can DCMA provide to the PM in the negotiation process? |
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| Working with DCAA to determine the acceptability of the offerer's accounting system, etc. |
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| What information can DCMA provide to the PM in the negotiation process? |
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| Which section of the RFP gives instructions to the contractor on how to prepare their proposal? |
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-Executed Faster
-Improve communication between source selectors and contractor
-Facilitate exchange of information during proposal period
-Reduces USG and contractor cost |
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| What are the benefits of an oral proposal? |
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| What are the two kinds of inquiries from Congress? |
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| What is an example of an informal inquiry? |
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| Follow up on previous discussion, hearings, or briefing and requests for new or current figures |
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| What might be the point to an informal inquiry? |
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| Yes, the PM should exercise caution when revceiving direct calls from Congress |
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| Is it appropriate to follow up an informal inquiry with a formal reply? |
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| Direct mail or transmital sheets |
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| How do formal inquiries arrive? |
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| The mail of committee chairmen has priority, followed by other Congressmen, then transmittals |
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| What is considered a timely response? |
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| What is an inquiry not signed by the member on personal letterhead, but forwarded by the staff on pre-printed transmittal sheets |
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| A memornadum for record to show what was requested and the follow on |
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| What should the action officer make up when receiving an inquiry? |
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| Headquarters and the next level chain |
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| Who should be told about congressional inquiries? |
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| Budgeted Cost Work Scheduled |
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| Budgeted Cost WOrk Performed |
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| How do you figure schedule variance? |
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| What metric in EVM is also known as "the plan?" |
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| Actual Cost of Work Performed |
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| How do you figure Cost Variance? |
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| How do you figure the Cost Performance Index? (CPI) |
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| How is Scheduled Performance Index (SPI) figured? |
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| Actuals to Date + (Work Remaining / Efficiency Factor) |
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| How do you compute the EAC? |
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| How do you figure the work remaining? |
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| How do you get the Actuals to Date? |
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ACWP cum +((BAC-BCWPcum ) / Efficiency Factor)
This assumes the contractor will not use Management Reserve |
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| What is the basic EAC formula? |
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ACWP cum + (( TAB-BCWP cum) / Efficiency Factor)
TAB = BAC + Management Reserve |
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| If you assume the contractor will use the Managment Reserve, what is the Formula? |
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| The most current cost performance |
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| What does the 3 period (month) CPI show? |
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-Longer time frame for cost performance
-May be more accurate ( or less accurate) regarding true trends |
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| What does the 6 period (month) CPI show? (relative to 3 month CPI) |
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-Integrated Baseline Review
-Within 6 months of contract award |
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| What is the IBR and when is it? |
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| Cost, Schedule, and Technical Risks |
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| What is identified and quantified at the IBR? |
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| Conceptual Application - MDD |
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| What is the 1st stage of Spectrum Certification and what is the milestone? |
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| Experimental Application - MSA |
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| What is the 2nd stage of Spectrum Certification and what is the milestone? |
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| Developmental Application - MSB |
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| What is the 3rd stage of Spectrum Certification and what is the milestone? |
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| Operational Application, MSC |
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| What is the 4th stage of Spectrum Certification and what is the milestone? |
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| National Telecommunications and Informational Administration |
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| Who administers the spectrum in the US? |
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| Who coordinates the spectrum outside the US? |
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| The entire program lifecycle |
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| What part of the program does the Acquisition Stategy guide? |
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| For which milestone is the Acquisition Strategy a statutorily required key document? |
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| The CDD and CPD are the basis - the PM must be involved to ensure realistic expectations for cost, schedule, and performance |
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| Where to the APB thresholds and objectives come from? |
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| What is the minimum acceptable performance value considered achievable within cost, schedule, and technology at low-to-moderate risk Schedule and Cost values are maximum? |
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| If a schedule threshold is not specified what does the DAG indicate? |
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| What is performance valued is the desired operational goal achieveable but at higher risk in cost, schedule, and technology? |
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| These represent the estimated dates of key scheduled events |
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| These represent the most likely cost of the system based on the life cycle cost estimate |
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| Performance Value Objectives |
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| What is the desired oeprational goal achievable but at higher risk in cost, schedule, and technology? |
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| Between threshold and objective |
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| Who approves KPPs traded outside the trade space? |
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| KPP (Key Performance Parameters) |
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| What is a system atttribute considered critical or essential for an effective military capability? |
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| KSA (Key System Attributes) |
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| What are system attributes considered crucial or essential for an effective military capability, but not selected as a KPP? |
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| Where are KPPs and KSAs listed? |
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| How are KPPs and KSAs transferred to the APB? |
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| No, there can be changes and tradeoffs based on information and experience gained during the EMD phase |
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| Do KSAs and KPPs always match the CDD to the CPD? |
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What are
-indirect costs
-direct costs
-infrastructure costs
-qty, APUC, PAUC - all in base year dollars |
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| What is RDT&E, procurement, milcon, O&S and O&M |
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| What are attributable to the system? |
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| What are not directly attributable to the system? |
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| What are in Base Year Dollars? |
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JROC Interest
JCB Interest
Joint Integration
Joint Information
Independent |
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| What are the various validations of the KPP and approval of the Capabilities Document? |
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| What are figures that the PM maintains for cost, schedule and performance paramters periodically reported to the MDA? |
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| How long does the PM have to notify the CAE of a Nunn-McCurdy breach? |
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| What are the two Nunn-McCurdy breaches? |
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| What is 15% increase over the PAUC or the APUC in the current baseline estimate or at least 30% increase in the same values for the orginal baseline? |
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| 25% increase over the PAUC or APUC or at least 50% increase over the same values in the original baseline |
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| What document is submitted when a critical or significant breach occurs? |
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| Terminate the program or sumbit a certification to Congress that the program is essential to National Security or other justification |
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| What must the USD (AT&L) do after assessing a Nunn-McCurdy breach? |
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| Technial Performance Masurement |
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| What is used to support projections and track perfromance parameters? |
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| Letter of Offer and Acceptance |
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| What documents are used for FMS? |
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| Who are the parties in the FMS? |
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| How are FMS items procured? |
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| What action fomrally begins the FMS process? |
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| What happens first in the FMS process? |
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| Security Assistance Office |
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| Who is the principle point of contact for foreign sales? |
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| What is a formal letter, email or similiar correspodence for FMS? |
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| Request defense what you want or request through rough pricing data |
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| What is the purpose of the LOR? |
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| Sufficient detail to allow a prompt response from the USG |
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-Prospective FMS customer is eligble
-Defense articles / services may be sold
-Request went thru proper channels
-Request is clear and complete |
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| What are the requirements reviewed for an LOR? |
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-IPTs
-Production Readiness Reviews
-DCMA
-Mantech
-Best Manufacturing Pracices Center of Excellence
-5 M's (Manpower, Materials, Machines, Process Methods, Measurement Systems)
-Supply Chain Mangement
-Best and Advanced Quality Systems
-Design for X
-Lean Enterprise Principles, Practices and Implements |
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| What are the Manufacturing and Production Risk Reducers? |
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-Realistic Combat Conditions
-Production Representative System for IOT&E
-Adequate Resources
-Representative Typical Users |
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| What are some considerations for OT? |
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Susceptibility (can you be seen?)
Vulnerabilty (can you be hit?)
Recoverabilty (can you be fixed?) |
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| What does Survivabiltiy include in OT? |
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| What is objective of a timely assessment of the vulnerabilty / lethality of a system as it progresses through its design and development prior to FRP and to demonstrate vulnerabilty / leathaity prior to FRP |
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| What kind of systems have to do LFT&E |
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What is any major system that is user occupied and designed to provide some degree of protection to its occupants
A conventional munitions program or missile program (100K rounds)
A mod to this system is likely to affect the survivabilty or lethaity significantly |
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| What is field test, under realistic conditions, or any item (or key component) of weapons? |
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Operational Effectiveness
Operational Suitabilty |
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| What does OT for weapons, equipment or munitions for use in combat by typical military users? |
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| The measure of Operational Effectivness |
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| What is the overall ability of a sysmte to accomplish a mission when used by representative personnel in the planned environment? |
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| What is the degree to which a system can be placed and sustained satisfactorily in field use with consideration being given to various elements of logistics and use? |
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| What test measures the system's conformance to technical contract specifications (eg - speed). |
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| What test provides Verification and Validation of the systems engineering process and provides confidence that hte sytsem design solution is on track? |
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| What test can be accomplished at a contractor or USG facility? |
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The following best practices are the following:
-Adopt life cycle configuration management
-Manage and trace requirements
-Use system based software design
-Ensure data and database interoperabilty
-Define and control interfaces
-Design twice, Code once
-Assess reuse risks and costs |
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| Product Stabilty and Integrity |
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What software best practices are associated with
-Inspect requirements and design
-Manage testing as a continuous process
-Compile and smoke test frequently |
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What software best practices are associated with
-adopt continous program risk mgmt
-estimate cost and schedule emphiracally
-use metric to manage
-track earned value
-tracks defects against qualty targets
-treat people as the most important resource |
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| what is the abilty of systems, units, or forces to provide data, information, material and services to and accept the same from other sytems, units or forces and use it? |
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| Technical Exchange and info and operational effectiveness of that exchanged data |
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| What does interoperabilty include? |
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| Joint Interoperabilty Test Command |
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| Who issues the I&S Certification? |
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| Which report is due to Congress before a system can proceed past LRIP? |
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| What is the report submitted that analyzes the results of IOT&E conducted for MDAP progrms? |
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| Full Up System Level Testing |
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The following staturtory requirements satisfy which testing?
-Realistic Survivabilty (vulnerabilty) testing
-Realistic Lethality Testing |
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| What is when the responsbilty for negotiation is given to the contractor and USG engineers? |
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| What is a team approach to concurrently develop a scope of work, prace that scope, and write the words that will change the contract terms and conditions? |
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| Prior to submission of the formal solitiation |
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| When is the agreement reached on much of the proposal in Alpha / One Pass? |
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| Definitized supplemental agreement |
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| What is the preferred way to change contract requirements? |
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| How long can a definitzed supplemental agreement take? |
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| What are permitted only within the general scope of the contract and contains only descriptive words setting forth the type of changes that may be made |
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| What are the two types of contract modifications? |
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| What is signed by both KO and Contractor |
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| What is signed only the KO |
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| How many logistics support elements? |
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Maintenance Planning
Manpower and Personnel
Supply support
Support equipment
Technical manauals and technical data
Training and Training devices
Computer resources Support
Facilities
Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transporation
Design Interface |
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| What are the 10 Logistics support elements? |
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| Mean Logistics Delay Time (MLDT) |
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| What is highly dependent on location, management polcies and individual serivce culture |
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| Mena Logistics Delay Time (MLDT) |
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| What is the average time a system is awaiting maintenance? |
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| Logistics support structure and environment |
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| What is Mena Logistics Delay Time (MLDT) largely dependent on? |
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| Mean Maintenance Time (MMT) |
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| What is the time to accomplish corrective and preventive maintenance actions? |
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| What is Mean Maintenance Time (MMT) largely dependent upon? |
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| Mean Time Between Maintenance |
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| Mean Time Between Failures |
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| Mean Time Between Maintenance (MTBM) |
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| What includes time between both corrective and preventive maintenance actions? |
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| Mean Time Bewteen Failures (MTBF) |
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| What includes time between corrective maintenace actions? |
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| What is the probabilty that an item is in an operable state at the start of a mission at a random point of time? |
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| What is AI and is corrective? |
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| What is AA and is corrective and preventive |
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| AO and is logistics delay |
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| Who will have a variety issues for a milestone review? |
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| What kind of issues can plague a program throughout its lifecycle, espeically for a joint program that depends on each service fully funding their procurement committments. |
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| Who must be aware of, and senstitive to, service POM issues? |
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| What are instructions to the contractors? |
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| What should be used by offerors to prepare a proposal? |
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| What section is evaluation factors? |
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| What contains evaluation factors that government uses to assess proposal and relative importance for each factor? |
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| What section may or may not provide standards for each factor and subfactor? |
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| What is the relative importance that needs to be respected? |
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| What should be based upon requirements of SOO and SOW and Systems Specficication? |
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| What should contain criteria that allows evaluators to make meaningful discriminations among offers? |
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| What allows for some subjectivity |
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| What must address the RFP? |
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| What must be made in accordance with Source Selection Plan and RFP |
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