1-Oriux Executed Confidentiality and Trade Secrets.pdf

This document is an Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Confidentiality and Trade Secrets form related to Solicitation No. BPM003462. The form outlines the process for protecting proprietary information and trade secrets during a procurement solicitation, governed by Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) regulations R2-7-103 and R2-7-101(52). The document requires offerors to designate whether their response contains trade secret or proprietary information, with specific guidelines for how such information will be handled by the state procurement process.

The form does not detail specific goods or services being procured, but instead focuses on the procedural requirements for protecting confidential information submitted as part of a solicitation response. Offerors must carefully identify any trade secrets by meeting a three-part definition: the information must be a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process; derive independent economic value from not being generally known; and be subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy. The state reserves the right to make a final determination on whether submitted information qualifies as a trade secret, with potential public disclosure if it does not meet the strict statutory definition.