CTCD TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Ans✓✓✓ State Tax Collector
State Accountant
Revenue estimation & Forecast
Purchasing Support & Procurement Oversight
Statewide term contracts for use by over 200 state agencies &
universities
Purchaser Role Ans✓✓✓ The term refers purchasing to the mechanical
or administrative process of how goods & services are ordered
Contract Developer Role Ans✓✓✓ This term applies to all actions taken
prior to contract execution & the preparation & completion of contract
award documents
Contract Manager Role Ans✓✓✓ This term applies to actins taken
following contract execution & ensuring contract performance &
practices are consistent with rules & Texas Laws
Fundamentals of Procurement Ans✓✓✓ Fairness Transparency, Best
Value for the State, Own the mission, Good Steward of Public Funds
,Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) Ans✓✓✓ The state's central
authority for the procurement of non-IT goods and services
Manages statewide contracts & exercises procurement authority
delegation
Provides guidance on procurement practices
Oversight & procurement assistance
Statewide Procurement Division is made up of what 5 divisions:
Ans✓✓✓ Procurement Policy & Outreach
Contract Development
Contract Management
Historically Underutilized Business (HUB)
Statewide Fleet, Travel, & Mail
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Training & Policy Development
Ans✓✓✓ Develops & administers BTP, CTCD, & CTCM training
Provides continuing education courses required for maintenance of
certifications
Conducts policy research & clarification
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Outreach Ans✓✓✓ Provides customer
support for: Texas SmartBuy support & membership
Electronic Business Daily (ESBD)
Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL)
, Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS)
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Procurement Oversight & Delegation
(POD) Ans✓✓✓ Performs reviews of service solicitations over $100k
within 30 days & delegates purchasing authority
Submits solicitations of anticipated value of $5Million or greater for
Contract Advisory Team (CAT) review
Contract Development Ans✓✓✓ develops term, managed, & TXMAS
contracts
performs reviews for solicitations for goods over $50k within 30 days
via open market requisitions (OMR) & approves delegation of
purchasing authority
Contract Management Ans✓✓✓ Assists state agencies, higher education
institutions, Texas SmartBuy members, & contractors with: day to day
contract management, contract administration, reporting requirements,
vendor performance issues related to statewide contracts
Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) Ans✓✓✓ Promotes
equal business opportunities to remedy disparity in state procurement &
contracting.
Certifies Texas-based vendors as HUBs= minority owned, woman
owned, or service disabled veteran owned
Contract developers or purchasers must make good faith effort to
identify HUB subcontracting opportunities when the contract value is
$100,000 or greater
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Ans✓✓✓ State Tax Collector
State Accountant
Revenue estimation & Forecast
Purchasing Support & Procurement Oversight
Statewide term contracts for use by over 200 state agencies &
universities
Purchaser Role Ans✓✓✓ The term refers purchasing to the mechanical
or administrative process of how goods & services are ordered
Contract Developer Role Ans✓✓✓ This term applies to all actions taken
prior to contract execution & the preparation & completion of contract
award documents
Contract Manager Role Ans✓✓✓ This term applies to actins taken
following contract execution & ensuring contract performance &
practices are consistent with rules & Texas Laws
Fundamentals of Procurement Ans✓✓✓ Fairness Transparency, Best
Value for the State, Own the mission, Good Steward of Public Funds
,Statewide Procurement Division (SPD) Ans✓✓✓ The state's central
authority for the procurement of non-IT goods and services
Manages statewide contracts & exercises procurement authority
delegation
Provides guidance on procurement practices
Oversight & procurement assistance
Statewide Procurement Division is made up of what 5 divisions:
Ans✓✓✓ Procurement Policy & Outreach
Contract Development
Contract Management
Historically Underutilized Business (HUB)
Statewide Fleet, Travel, & Mail
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Training & Policy Development
Ans✓✓✓ Develops & administers BTP, CTCD, & CTCM training
Provides continuing education courses required for maintenance of
certifications
Conducts policy research & clarification
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Outreach Ans✓✓✓ Provides customer
support for: Texas SmartBuy support & membership
Electronic Business Daily (ESBD)
Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL)
, Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS)
Procurement Policy & Outreach: Procurement Oversight & Delegation
(POD) Ans✓✓✓ Performs reviews of service solicitations over $100k
within 30 days & delegates purchasing authority
Submits solicitations of anticipated value of $5Million or greater for
Contract Advisory Team (CAT) review
Contract Development Ans✓✓✓ develops term, managed, & TXMAS
contracts
performs reviews for solicitations for goods over $50k within 30 days
via open market requisitions (OMR) & approves delegation of
purchasing authority
Contract Management Ans✓✓✓ Assists state agencies, higher education
institutions, Texas SmartBuy members, & contractors with: day to day
contract management, contract administration, reporting requirements,
vendor performance issues related to statewide contracts
Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) Ans✓✓✓ Promotes
equal business opportunities to remedy disparity in state procurement &
contracting.
Certifies Texas-based vendors as HUBs= minority owned, woman
owned, or service disabled veteran owned
Contract developers or purchasers must make good faith effort to
identify HUB subcontracting opportunities when the contract value is
$100,000 or greater
