ps7319c.pdf

Representations and Certifications Type of Business Organization

Solicitation or Contract No.

Date of Offer or Order

Name and Address of Offeror (No. and Street, Apt./Suite No., City, County, State, and ZIP + 4)

The U.S. Postal Service is cooperating with other agencies of the Federal Government in the collection of data concerning contract awards. The offeror is requested to check the appropriate box(es) contained on this form.

NOTE: Offerors MUST set forth full, accurate, and complete information as required by this solicitation (including attachments). The penalty for making false statements in offers is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. 1001.

The offeror, by checking the applicable blocks, represents that it operates as:

a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of ___________________________________, an individual, a partnership, a joint venture, a nonprofit organization, or an educational institution.

PS Form 7319-C, April 2003

Printed Name and Title Signature and Date Signed Company Representative

Definitions

Type of Business (Check as many of the following boxes as are applicable to the entity submitting this offer.)

Woman-Owned Business

Labor Surplus Area Concern

Educational or Other Nonprofit Organization

Small Business Concern Minority-Owned Business (Check one)

Black American

Hispanic American

Native American

Asian American

1. SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN. A small business concern for the purposes of Postal Service purchasing means a business, including an affiliate, that is independently owned and operated, is not dominant in producing or performing the supplies or services being purchased, and has no more than 500 employees, unless a different size standard has been established by the Small Business Administration (see 13 CFR 121, particularly for different size standards for airlines, railroad, and construction companies). For subcontracts of $50,000 or less, a subcontractor having no more than 500 employees qualifies as a small business without regard to other factors.

2. WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS. A woman-owned business is a concern at least 51 percent of which is owned by a woman (or women) who is a U.S. citizen, controls the firm by exercising the power to make policy decisions, and operates the business by being actively involved in day-to-day management.

3. LABOR SURPLUS AREA. A geographical area which at the time of award is either a section of concentrated unemployment or underemployment, a persistent labor surplus area, or a substantial labor surplus area, as defined in this paragraph.

(a) Section of concentrated unemployment or underemployment means appropriate sections of States or labor areas so classified by the Secretary of Labor.

(b) Persistent labor surplus area means an area which is classified by the Department of Labor as an area of substantial and persistent labor surplus (also called Area of Substantial and Persistent Unemployment) and is listed as such by that Department in conjunction with its publication Area Trends in Employment and Unemployment.

(c) Substantial labor surplus area means an area which is classified by the Department of Labor as an area of substantial labor surplus (also called Area of Substantial Unemployment) and which is listed as such by that Department in conjunction with its publication Area Trends in Employment and Unemployment.

4. LABOR SURPLUS AREA CONCERN. A firm which will perform or cause to be performed a substantial proportion of a contract in a labor surplus area.

5. EDUCATIONAL OR OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. Any corporation, foundation, trust, or other institution operated for scientific or educational purposes, not organized for profit, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the profits of any private shareholder or individual.

6. MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS. A minority-owned business is a concern that is at least 51 percent owned by, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by, one or more members of a socially and economically disadvantaged minority group, namely U.S. citizens who are Asian Americans, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans.

(Asian Americans are U.S. citizens whose origins are Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, or in the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands.

Asian Americans also include U.S. citizens whose origins are in the Indian subcontinent. Native Americans are Aleuts, American Indians, Eskimos, and Native Hawaiians.)