5 - Food Products Bid Cert of Indpt Price Deter 2025-2026.pdf
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- Food and Food Products 2025-2026
- Solicitation number
- Food Bid 25-26
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- St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
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This document is a Certificate of Independent Price Determination for a Food Products procurement involving a School Food Authority and a Vendor, specifically related to a Louisiana food products contract for the period of July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026. The certificate confirms that the pricing proposal has been developed independently, without consultation or agreement with competitors, and ensures that the pricing quotes have not been disclosed to other potential bidders prior to the procurement process.
The document requires the Vendor to certify that their pricing has been arrived at independently, without collusion or attempts to restrict competition. The Vendor must also attest that to the best of their knowledge, they and their affiliated entities are not currently under governmental investigation and have not been convicted of any public contract bidding violations in the past three years. The certificate is signed by the Vendor's authorized representative and countersigned by the School Food Authority's Food Services Manager on March 27, 2023, indicating the document's role in maintaining procurement integrity for the upcoming food products contract.
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Certificate of Independent Price Determination
Prototype Certificate of Independent Price Determination
Both the school food authority and the Vendor (offeror) shall execute this Certificate of Independent Price Determination.
(Name ofVendor) (Name ofSchool Food Authority)
(A) By submission of this offer, the offer or certifies and in the case of a joint offer, each party thereto certifies as to its own organization, that in connection with this procurement:
(1) The prices in this offer have been arrived at independently, without consultation, communication or agreement, for the purpose of restricting competition, as to any matter relating to such prices with any other offeror or with any competitor;
(2) Unless otherwise required by law, the prices which have been quoted in this offer have not been knowingly disclosed by the offeror and will not knowingly be disclosed by the offeror prior toopening in the case of an advertised procurement, or prior to award in the case of a negotiated procurement, directly or indirectly to any other offeror or to any competitor; and
(3) No attempt has been made or will be made by the offeror to induce any person or firm to submit or not to submit, an offer for the purpose of restricting competition.
(B) Each person signing this offer on behalf of the Vendor certifies that:
(1) He or she is the person in the offeror's organization responsible within the organization for the decision as to the prices being offered herein and has not participated, and will not participate, in any action contrary to (A)(1) through (A)(3) above; or
(2) He or she is not the person in the offeror's organization responsible within the organization for the decision as to the prices being offered herein, but that he or she has been authorized in writing to act as agent for the persons responsible for such decision in certifying that such persons have not participated and will not participate, in any action contrary to (A)(1) through (A)(3) above, and as their agent does hereby so certify; and he or she has not participated, and will not participate, in any action contrary to (A)(1) through (A)(3) above.
To the best of my knowledge, this Vendor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors and employees are not currently under investigation by any governmental agency and have not in the last three years been convicted or found liable for any act prohibited by State or Federal law in any jurisdiction, involving conspiracy or collusion with respect to bidding on any public contract, except as follows:
Signature of Vendor's Title Date Authorized Representative
In accepting this offer, the SFA certifies that no representative of the SFA has taken any action which may have jeopardized the independence of the offer referred to above.
Mr. Michael Morel Food Services Manager March 27,2023
Signature of School Food Authority's Title Date Authorized Representative
Note: Accepting a bidder's offer does not constitute award of the contract.
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