DOMESTIC-BID_CERTIFICATION_QUESTIONS.pdf

Bid Certification Questions

Please note answering Bid Certifications Questions in WBSCM is a required component of the offer.

1. Standard Form-1449 has been completed, signed, dated, and returned to the Contracting

Officer.

- Yes

- No

- Non-applicable

2. The Offeror by answering yes certifies compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act inspection requirements.

Yes

No

3. Dun and Bradstreet Number (DUNS) or DUNS plus four and Business Size Standard.

4. System for Award Management (SAM): The Offeror has completed entity registration electronically via entry into SAM at the website www.SAM.gov. SAM is used for payment purposes. The offeror is responsible for controlling the accuracy of its business information.

The offeror verifies by submission of this offer that the SAM is accurate, complete, and current as of the date of this solicitation

4a. SAM Representations and Certifications (FAR 52.204-8(b): The Offeror has completed the representations and certifications electronically via entry into SAM at the website www.SAM.gov. After reviewing the representations and certifications database information, the offeror verifies by submission of the offer that the representations and certifications currently posted have been entered or updated within the last 12 months are accurate, complete, current, and applicable to this solicitation (including the business size standard applicable to the NAICS code referenced for this solicitation), as of the date of this offer and are incorporated in this offer by reference (see Far 4.1201); except for the changes identified below (OFFEROR TO INSERT CHANGES, IDENTIFYING CHANGE BY

CLAUSE NUMBER, TITLE, AND DATE). These amended representation(s) and/or certification(s) are also incorporated in this offer and are accurate, complete, and current as of this date of this offer. Any changes provided by the offeror are applicable to this solicitation only, and do not result in an update to the representations and certifications posted on SAM.

5. Amendments to Solicitation: If this solicitation is amended, then all terms and conditions which are not modified remain unchanged. The Offerors shall acknowledge receipt of any http://www.sam.gov/ http://www.sam.gov/ amendment to this solicitation by identifying the amendment number and date in the space provided: (Enter N/A if not applicable.)

Amendment number and amendment date

Non-applicable

6. All USDA contracts with the Offeror that have a Not-Later-Than date prior to solicitation opening

Have been delivered

Have not been delivered

No previous contracts

7. The offeror certifies that the commercial-brand product to be delivered has a history of successful distribution and use in domestic commercial channels, is sold on the commercial market, and has an established level of consumer acceptance. Insert the commercial brand names(s) offered.

Brand name and pack size

8. Plant location for all items has been verified pursuant to Submission of Offers, Plant

Location Requirement instructions?

9. Supplier Agreements; All non-manufacturers pursuant to the Submission of Offers, Supplier

Agreement Requirement instructions, must furnish to the Government, at the time of offer, the name, address, telephone number, and business size (i.e., large or small) of the supplier. If the offeror is the manufacturer of the product they are offering under this solicitation, insert N/A.

9a. Supplier Agreement has been submitted pursuant to Capability Requirements.

Not applicable

10. 452.209-70 Representation by Corporations Regarding an Unpaid Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction. The Offeror represents that –

The Offeror is /is not an entity that has filed articles of incorporation in one of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, or the various territories of the United States including

American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Midway Islands, Northern

Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, U.S.

Virgin Islands. (Note that this includes both for-profit and non-profit organizations.)

Is

Is Not

10a. The Offeror has /has not been convicted of a felony criminal violation under Federal or State law in the 24 months preceding the date of offer.

Has

Has Not

10b. The Offeror has /has not had any officer or agent of Offeror convicted of a felony criminal violation for actions taken on behalf of Offeror under Federal or State law in the

24 months preceding the date of offer.

Has

Has Not

10c. The Offeror does /does not have any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability.

Does

Does Not

11. Each commodity offered meets the commodity specifications applicable to this Solicitation.

No

12. Offeror has complied with the requirements of clause 52.232-40, “Providing Accelerated

Payments to Small Business Subcontractors”.

Yes

No

13. Please insert name, title, email, telephone and fax numbers of person submitting the offer.

13a. Please provide a 24‐hour emergency Point of Contact (POC) information. The POC information should include: name, title, email, telephone and fax number s.