Affidavit_Regarding_Coercion_for_Labor_and_Services.pdf
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- Attached to
- Classroom and Office Supplies - Stock
- Solicitation number
- 003-RW-0727
- Issued by
- Polk County, Florida
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This is an Affidavit Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services required by the State of Florida for the School Board of Polk County's Classroom and Office Supplies - Stock procurement (ITB 003RW0727). Effective July 1, 2024, Florida Statute Section 787.06(13) mandates that all nongovernmental entities executing, renewing, or extending contracts with governmental entities must submit a signed affidavit under penalty of perjury certifying compliance with labor coercion prohibitions. The procurement involves a six-month contract term for the delivery of classroom and office supplies to The School Board of Polk County warehouse in Bartow, Florida. Bids were due July 16, 2026, and this procurement has closed as of the posting date of July 21, 2026.
The affidavit requires an authorized representative of the vendor to certify under penalty of perjury that the nongovernmental entity does not use coercion for labor or services, including prohibitions against physical force, unlawful restraint or confinement, exploitative debt practices, document confiscation, financial harm threats, fraudulent enticement, or provision of controlled substances for exploitation purposes. The affidavit must be notarized and signed by an officer or authorized representative of the vendor. Along with this affidavit, bidders were required to submit a Drug Free Workplace Certification and an Affidavit Regarding Foreign Countries of Concern, with the School Board's standard Form Contract Addendum applying to the procurement.
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Affidavit Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services
State of Florida County of __________________
Name of Vendor: _____________________________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________________________________
Phone Number: ______________________________________________________________________
Authorized Representative’s Name: _____________________________________________________
Authorized Representative’s Title: _______________________________________________________
Effective July 1, 2024, Section 787.06(13), Florida Statutes, requires all nongovernmental entities executing, renewing, or extending a contract with a governmental entity to provide an affidavit signed by an officer or representative under penalty of perjury attesting that the nongovernmental entity does not use coercion for labor or services.
As the person authorized to sign on behalf of the vendor, I certify that the vendor identified above does not:
• Use or threaten to use physical force against any person;
• Restrain, isolate, or confine or threaten to restrain, isolate, or confine any person without lawful authority and against her or his will;
• Use lending or other credit methods to establish a debt by any person when labor or services are pledged as a security for the debt, if the value of the labor or services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt, the length and nature of the labor or services are not respectively limited and defined;
• Destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, withhold, or possess any actual or purported passport, visa, or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of any person;
• Cause or threaten to cause financial harm to any person;
• Entice or lure any person by fraud or deceit; or
• Provide a controlled substance as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of Florida Statute 893.03 to any person for the purpose of exploitation of that person.
Under penalty of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing document and that the facts stated in it are true.
Signature of Authorized Representative: ______________________________________________
The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this _____ day of _____, 20____, by ________________________, as Authorized Representative of the above-named Vendor who is (___) personally known to me or (____) produced a _______ driver’s license as identification.
Notary Public, State of _____________________ Commission no.: __________________________ My commission expires:____________________
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