You are a project manager for Dakota Software Consulting Services. You're working with a major retailer that offers their products through mail-order catalogs. They're interested in knowing customer characteristics, the amounts of first-time orders, and similar information. As a potential bidder for this project, you worked on the RFP response and submitted the proposal. When the selection committee received the RFP responses from all the vendors bidding on this project, they used a weighted system to select. In which process did this occur?

Source Selection

Solicitation

Requisition

Contract Administration

2. You have been asked to submit a proposal for a project that has been put out for bid. First, you attend the bidder conference to ask questions of the buyers and to hear the questions some of the other bidders will ask. Which of the following statements is true?

Bidder conferences are a tool and technique of the Source Selection process.

Bidder conferences are an output of the Source Selection process.

Bidder conferences are an output of the Solicitation process.

Bidder conferences are a tool and technique of the Solicitation process.

You have been asked to submit a proposal for a project that has been put out for bid. Prior to submitting the proposal, your company must register so that their firm is on the qualified seller list. Which of the following statements is true?

The qualified seller list provides information about the sellers and is a tool and technique of the Solicitation process.

the qualified seller list provides information about the project and the company that wrote the RFP and is an input to the Solicitation process.

The qualified seller list provides information about the project and the company that wrote the RFP and is a tool and technique of the Source Selection process.

The qualified seller list provides information about the sellers and is an input to the Solicitation process.

The tools and techniques of the Source Selection process include all the following except:

Contract negotiation

Correspondence

independent estimates

Screening system

Which of the following processes negotiates the sequence of award by rank ordering the proposals?

Source Selection

Solicitation

Contract Administration

Procurement