The government may reserve the right to review the contractor's make-or-buy program for what purposes?

• A. To ensure implementation of environmental policies
• B. To ensure negotiation of reasonable contract prices, satisfactory performance, or implementation of socioeconomic policies
• C. To approve subcontractor bids
• D. To manage payroll

Answer: (C)

Make-or-buy planning is about how a contractor decides to produce in-house or procure from outside, and the government uses oversight to ensure that those decisions support price reasonableness, performance quality, and policy goals. The government may reserve the right to review the contractor’s make-or-buy program to verify that the plan will lead to reasonable contract prices, satisfactory performance, and the implementation of socioeconomic policies (such as small business utilization). This helps protect competition, value, and policy compliance in the contract.

The purpose is not to approve subcontractor bids; subcontractor bidding and bid selection are handled through the competition and award process and related subcontracting requirements, not the make-or-buy review. Likewise, environmental policy enforcement or payroll management aren’t the focus of make-or-buy oversight.