Assignment 2 Cleonda Coley ACQ 501 Government Acquisition Strayer University Dr. Villarreal Summer Quarter of 2016

Synopsis Imagine that you are working on a two-million-dollar procurement for the purchase of vehicles for the fleet of trucks and cars to be used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection. These vehicles will be used for off-road driving on dirt roads in Arizona. Your manager has asked you to select the type of contract to be used for the vehicle purchase. Types of Contracts Government contracts fall into four different categories and are governed by the guidelines in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). First there is the Fixed Price contract which falls under FAR 16.2. Subcontracts of fixed price are Firm fixed price,...