You are managing a program to establish a new distribution center. The facility's location was selected because labor costs were low, but it is in a remote area. Now gasoline prices have increased by $30\%$ and are forecasted to rise another $20\%$ in the next $6$ months. In planning for the procurement of transportation services, you need to:

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Prepare a competitive analysis of service providers

Recommend to your sponsor that the program be terminated and the distribution center be moved to a more urban area

Prepare a contract management plan

Encourage bidders by providing simplified legal requirements in the form of standard terms and conditions.

You establish a program support function to provide ongoing product support for the heating, ventilating and air$-$conditioning program for the new class of amphibious warfare vehicles. Prior to transitioning your program's work to this group, you need to ensure:

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Successful, on$-$time product delivery

The Governance board is consulted

That attention is paid to benefits sustainment

That all documented benefits are realized as planned

Assume that it is the time to prepare your final report to close your new product development program. This means you need to describe in it:

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Actual work performed

Contractors to be added to the qualified supplier list

Program documentation archive plan

Knowledge transition

You have been managing a program to deliver a new tractor that will use $75\%$ less fuel. The program is ready and the activities to sustain the benefits will be transitioned to the product support group. During this transition, you need to make sure:

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The operations group has been involved in the program as a key stakeholder

Estimates of the cost to sustain the benefits are finalized

Stakeholders have signed off on product acceptance criteria

Component transition requests have been submitted

Your program is beginning to miss key milestones because of delays by your customer, with whom you have a contract. Your goal is to ensure that corrections are made as quickly as possible, so you decide to conduct a contract performance review earlier than planned. At the program level, it is your responsibility now to:

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Prepare a change request

Document the causes for the delay and bring it to your attorney's attention

Ensure the budget is being spent properly

You are a program manager on an international program that relies on contractors for approximately $75\%$ of its work. Some of the contracts apply to a specific project, but $5$ contracts span $6$ of the projects. You have one basic ordering agreement, which enables you to obtain temporary resources as required for this complex program. In terms of Program Procurement Administration, you should review the:

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Program reports

Procurement register

Contract management plan

Change requests

You are a program manager for a city transit authority. Your program has a number of projects under way to upgrade infrastructure to current technologies, and to implement a process improvement program. The transit authority's chief financial officer has left to assume a position in a different city, and a new person has been appointed. You should:

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Update your stakeholder inventory

Appoint one of your core team members to interact with the new CFO

Meet with the new CFO to explain the importance of the program

Update the stakeholder register

You are a program manager for a software services company. This new software will bring your company into Cloud computing. It also will replace your company's legacy finance and accounting systems. You are to complete your program in two years. Your sponsor has asked you to develop metrics for program success. This is done as part of the development of the:

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Program charter

Program roadmap

Program plan

Program management plan