Appendix_D_Drug_free.pdf
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- Equitable Services for Private Schools
- Solicitation number
- 019-MJ-0326
- Issued by
- Polk County, Florida
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This is a Drug-Free Workplace Certification Form issued by the School Board of Polk County, Florida, in accordance with Florida Statute 287.087. The certification applies to the District's Request for Proposals for Equitable Services for Private Schools, which seeks qualified proposers to deliver instructional programs including tutoring in reading, mathematics, science, and academic counseling to eligible students in private schools, provide professional development to private school teachers, and conduct parent involvement activities. Respondents are required to propose all three service components. The certification form establishes the requirements that bidders must meet to qualify for drug-free workplace preference in the award process when bids are equal with respect to price, quality, and service.
To comply with the drug-free workplace certification, bidders must publish a workplace statement prohibiting unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of controlled substances; inform employees of drug abuse dangers and available assistance programs; distribute the policy statement to all employees engaged in providing the contracted services; require employees to notify the employer of any drug-related convictions within five days; impose sanctions or require participation in rehabilitation programs for violating employees; and maintain good faith efforts to sustain a drug-free workplace. The authorized representative of the responding firm must sign and certify full compliance with these requirements. Businesses meeting these criteria receive preference in the award process as a tiebreaker when competing proposals are otherwise equal.
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Appendix D, Drug-Free Workplace Certification Form
In accordance with Florida Statute 287.087, preference shall be given to businesses with drug free workplace programs. Whenever two or more bids which are equal with respect to price, quality, and service are received by the State or by any political subdivision for the procurement of commodities or contractual services, a bid received from a business that certifies that it has implemented a drug-free workplace program shall be given preference in the award process.
Established procedures for processing tie bids will be followed if none of the tied vendors have a drug-free workplace program. In order to have a drug-free program, a business shall:
1) Publish a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the workplace and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of such prohibition.
2) Inform employees about the dangers of drug abuse in the workplace, the business’s policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace, any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs, and the penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug abuse violations.
3) Give each employee engaged in providing the commodities or contractual services that are under bid a copy of the statement specified in subsection (1).
4) In the statement specified in subsection (1), notify the employees that, as a condition of working on the commodities or contractual services that are under bid, the employee will abide by the terms of the statement and will notify the employer of any conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any violation of chapter 893 or of any controlled substance law of the United States or any state, for a violation occurring in the workplace no later than five (5) days after such conviction.
5) Impose a sanction on, or require the satisfactory participation in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program if such is available in the employee’s community, by any employee who is so convicted.
6) Make a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through implementation of this section.
As the person authorized to sign the statement, I certify that this firm complies fully with the above requirements.
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Appendix D, Drug-Free Workplace Certification Form
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