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| RFP and Source Selection Plan |
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| What are vital to the source selection process? |
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| What can be used by the contractor to change in the proposal? |
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| These have different roles in the source selection process |
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| Instructions to the Contractor |
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| These should be based on SOO/SOW requirements and should also contain criteria that evaluators would use in evaluating proposals |
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| Who evaluates each proposals? |
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| Who evaluates proposals against each other? |
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| Who makes the final award? |
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| Discussion and negotiation |
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| What is the next phase that allows exchange of info and possibly change proposal? |
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Faster
Facilitates communication (clarification)
reduces cost |
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| What are the benefits of an oral presentation? |
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What is the 4 Mar 2011 memo:
Proposals that contain one or more deficiencies (red rating) makes the contract unawardable |
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1) Separate technical and risk evaluations
2) Combined technical and risk evaluations |
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| What are the two ways to evaluate proposals with color scheme? |
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| What is the mandataed way to do evaluations? |
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Provides offerer's financial
Organization
Operations Status
Past performance w/similiar type efforts |
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| What can DCMA provide in source selection? |
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Direct Labor and Material Costs
Accounting system
Tech eval for contract mods
EVM
Risk Mgmt |
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| What can DCMA provide in support? |
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| EOA Early Operational Assessment |
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| What test type has test articles of Prototypes? |
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| OA Operational Assessment |
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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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| FOT&E Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation |
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| What test type has production or modified production test articles? |
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EOA Early Operational Assessment
OA Operational Assessment
IOT&E Initial Operational Test and Evaluation |
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| What test type uses RDT&E funding? |
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| FOT&E Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation |
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| What test type is typically OM&N funded? |
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| EOA Early Operational Assessment |
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| What test type is not pass/fail? |
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| FOT&E Follow on Operational Test and Evaluation |
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| Which test type assesses modifications or develop tactics? |
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| OA Operational Assessment |
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| Which test type is not pass/fail but acceptable performance? |
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| OA Operational Assessment |
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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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What are
EOA on prototypes (no pass/fail)
OA (EDMs) MS C
IOT&E
FOT&E |
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| Interoperabilty Certification |
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| What kind of testing has to be demonstrated prior to FRPDR? |
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| What test should be done when you have an EDM (Post-CDR) |
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| What has to completed prior to FRPDR? |
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| What has to be consistent with risk assessment? |
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| Does the order of IOT&E and JITC matter? |
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| What covers the entire program life cycle and is required at MS B? |
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| What is the minimum acceptable performance value considered achievable within Cost, Schedule & Technology at low to medium risk? |
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| What performance value is desired but at higher risk to cost, schedule and technology? |
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| Stage 1 Sprectrum Certification, when |
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| Stage 2 Sprectrum Certification, when |
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| Stage 3 Sprectrum Certification, when |
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| Stage 4 Sprectrum Certification, when |
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| Yes, tradeoffs within EMD |
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Definition
| Do the KPPs and KSAs change between CDD and CPD? |
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| Who approves KPP changes or trades outside of the tradespace? |
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| In the APB, how are KPPs and KSAs described? |
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| 10% unit cost breach (objective or threshold) |
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| What is required for a APB Deviation? |
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| 15%+ increase in PAUC or APUC over current baseline estimate |
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| 30%+ increase in PAUC or APUC over originial baseline |
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| Notification, SAR Exeception Report |
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| What is required for a significant breach? |
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| 25%+ increase in PAUC or APUC over current baseline estimate |
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| 50%+ increase in PAUC or APUC over originial baseline |
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| Notification, SAR Exeception Report, Certiciation |
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| What is required for a critical breach? |
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| Basic principles obseved and reported |
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| Technology concept and/or application formualted |
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| Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept |
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| Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment |
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| Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment |
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| System/Subsytem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment |
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| System prototype demonstration in an operational environment |
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| Actual system completed and qualified through test and demonstration |
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| Actual system proven through successful mission operations |
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| This states that no FMS case will move forward prior to successful OT&E unless OSD approves a waiver |
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| Formally establishes FMS case (and once the money has been received) |
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| Cost to produce an item declines at a fixed rate as production quanity doubles |
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Committee Chairman
Committee Members
Transmittal Sheets |
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| What is the pecking order for congressional inquiries? |
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| What is the probability that item is operable at start of mission when mission is called for at random point of time? |
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| = MTBM / (MTBM + MMT + MLDT) |
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| Test, analyze, fix, test process to eliminate single point failures |
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| A covered system shall not proceed beyond LRIP unitl this has been accomplished |
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| What must be tested for lethality or survivability? |
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| What is extremely difficult to hold the contractor responsible for and is dependent upon the logistics support structure? |
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| What is a measure of maintainability? |
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| What availabilty may be a better requirement contracturally |
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| What availabilty may be in the CDD or CPD to be tested later? |
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| The degree to which the life cycle cost of an acquisition program is in consonance with the long range modernization, force structure and manpower plans of the indivudual DOD components, as well as DOD as a whole |
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| Who manages most of the contracs awarded to defense contractors? |
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| Who can reduce the time required for negotiations through the use of IPT pricing? IPT pricing can reduce the normal time for negotiations by two-thirds |
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What are:
License to operate a spectrum device
Regular (permanent) temporary, or trial
Lead time for approval is lengthy |
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What is a comprehensive and integrated plan that:
identifies the acquisition approach
describes the business, tehcnical and support strategies
Manges program risk
meets program objectives |
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| What is the key document to support the statutorily required MS B certification for MDAPs? |
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Guides program across entire program life cycle
Approved at MS B by MDA |
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| Inquiries, Investigations, Trips |
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| What are the three traditional methods used by Congress to obtain information? |
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Establishes mileston decision points
Covers development, testing, production, and life cycle support
REquirements for each phase
Top level integration schedule and master plan |
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| What will the program use to achieve full capability, evoluntionary or single step and fully describes the planning considerations needed to balance, cost, schedule and life cycle? |
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Required by DOD 5000.02
Describes the overall strategy
Needed by MDA (strategy level) |
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required by the FAR
Comprehensive plan for implementing contracting strategy
execution level |
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| Contract modification signed by the contractor and contracting officer |
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| contract modification signed by contracting officer |
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| What is issue unilaterally? |
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| What is called a change order? |
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| Most in scope changes are done by what? |
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What allows the contracting offic to issue a unilateral change if change is within scope and
Change to drawing designs or spec
method of shipping or packing
place of delivery |
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| Undefinitized Contract Action (UCA) |
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| Refers only to new work not within the general scope of an existing contract and is not a change order |
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Definition
What is
Best Value for the government
Reflect a clear undesrtanding of what is required
Consistent with the unique methods of performance and material in the proposal |
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Definition
This must address all points in the RFP
by timely, and be assessed by the government as fair and reasonable prior to award |
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| THe PM must notify CAE and PEO and submit Unit Cost Report immediately |
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| CAIV Cost as an Independent Variable |
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Definition
| Once cost, schedule and performance thresholds are determined, cost becomes a constraint, an indepenedent variable. |
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| CAIV Cost as an Independent Variable |
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| Used to develop TOC objectives and thresholds prior to program initation |
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Baseline that documents the cost, schedule and performance "goals" of the program
-Required at Program Iniation MSB |
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| -Reflects the threshold and objective values for the min number of cost, schedule and performance attributes and describes the program over the life cycle |
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| What process produces the CDD prior to MS B and CPD prior to MS C |
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| Minimum acceptable values considered achieveable within available cost, schedule and technology at low-to-moderate risk |
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| represents what the user desires and expects. Objective value for a performance attribute is the desired operational goal achieveable but at higher risk in cost, schedule and technology |
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| LCC is what percentage of O&S costs? |
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| USD (AT&L) approval required prior to P&A data or LOA for Major Defense Equpment that has not yet satisfactorily completed OT&E |
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Developed and staff by the PM
Concurrence by the PEO
Approved by the MDA |
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| Selected Acquisition Report |
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| How are APBs approved to Congress? |
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| What could be listed in the APB but not in the CDD and CPD? |
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| KPP Threshold and Objectives |
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| What are extracted from the CDD/CPD and included verbatim in the APB |
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| This should include affordabilty determination identified as life cycle cost or if available Totol Ownership COsts in threshold and objective format |
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| RDT&E, procurement, milcon, O&S and OM&N funds |
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| Time between corrective maintenance actions |
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| Measure of relabilty that includes time between both corrective and preventive maintenance actions |
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| Is largely dependent upon HW and SW and manufacturing process |
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| Measure of maintainabilty that includes time to accomplish corrective and preventive maintenance actions |
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| Indicator of the average time a system is waiting maintenance for parts, personnel, tech manuals. |
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| Logistic support structure and environment |
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| Supports the system engineering process for risk and risk mitigation, techicnal parameters |
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| Field test under realistic conditions to determine operational effectiveness and operational suitability |
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| forecasts and evaluates the potential for operational effectiveness and suitabilty |
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| Evaluation of the operational effectiveness and operational suitabilty made by indpendent operational test acty. |
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| Looking at significant trends and development efforts - normally conducted prior to MS C |
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| provide timely assessement of vulnerabilty/lethality of a system as it progresses through its design and development prior to FRP |
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| operational effectiveness |
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| measure of the overall abilty of the system to accomplish a mission when used by representive personnel in the environment planned or expected for operational employment of the sytem considering organization, doctrin, tactics, supportabilty, survivability, vulnerabilty and threat |
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| degree to which a system can be placed and sustained satisfactorialy in field use with consideration being given to availabilty, comptabiabilty, transportabilty, interoperabilty, reliablty |
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| What is a system that is user occupoied and designed to provide some degree of production to its occupants in combat |
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| Full up System Level (FUSL) Testing |
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| Realistic survivabilty or realistic lethality testing - vulnerabilty and lethality testing under realistic conditions |
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