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CON 3900 - Standards of Conduct
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_____________ of ______________ are intended to create trust and confidence in the integrity of the contract management process. ✔✔Standards of Conduct
Contract managers must conduct business in good faith while: ✔✔adequately protecting proprietary and restricted information and other resources of all parties; and avoid actual or apparent conflicts of interest.
True or False: Contracting professionals may solicit gifts from anyone. ✔✔False; you may not solicit any gifts from anyone for any reason
When subcontractors make a payment and contractors accept the payment for the purpose of obtaining favorable treatment in connection with the prime contractor ✔✔Kickback
True or False: A contracting officer can knowingly award a contract to a Government employee or business owned/controlled by Government employee(s). ✔✔False; a contracting officer shall never knowingly award to Government employees or their businesses.
What is Organization Conflicts of Interest (OCI)? ✔✔set of circumstances in which a contractor may be unable to render impartial advice to gov't, or might have impaired objectivity in performing contracted work, or may obtain an unfair competitive advantage in the market when competing for gov't work
What are the 3 types of OCI? ✔✔Unequal Access, Impaired Objectivity, Biased Ground Rules
A unfair competitive advantage when a contractor obtains information not generally available to competitors where the information would assist the contractor in winning the award. ✔✔Unequal Access
Occurs when a support contractor is performing duties that involve assessing or evaluating itself or a related entity. ✔✔Impaired Objectivity
Most often occurs when the contractor is writing the SOW, performing systems engineering, or providing technical direction efforts; this type of OCI calls into question the contractor's objectivity ✔✔Biased Ground Rules
