Attachment_J-Principal_Place_of_Business_Letter.docx
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- Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas
- Solicitation number
- ITB-13635
- Issued by
- Florida
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This document is an Attachment J Principal Place of Business Letter for a Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas Invitation to Bid (ITB) No. 25-15111510-ITB, likely issued by a Florida state or local government agency. The document requires bidders to disclose their principal place of business, with specific requirements for businesses located within or outside of Florida. Bidders must complete a section indicating whether their principal place of business is in Florida or another state, and out-of-state bidders must provide a legal opinion from an attorney licensed in their state regarding any preferences granted to local businesses in public contract procurement.
The document outlines specific legal requirements under Section 287.084(2) of Florida Statutes, mandating that out-of-state vendors provide a written legal opinion about state preferences when submitting bid documents. For out-of-state bidders, an attorney must certify whether their home state grants any preferences to local businesses in public contract awards, and if so, describe those specific preferences in detail. The form requires detailed contact information, signatures from the bidder's authorized representative and the attorney, and serves as a compliance mechanism to ensure transparency and fairness in the bidding process for this liquefied petroleum gas solicitation.
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Attachment J Principal Place of Business Letter
[Date]
[Contact Name] [Company Name] [Company Address] [City, State, Zip]
The Bidder shall indicate where its principal place of business is located and provide a completed Attachment X to the Department in response to the solicitation.
Principal place of business (please select only one)
☐ The Bidder has its principal place of business within Florida. Complete the following fields if this box is selected:
Printed Bidder (Vendor) Name: ___________________________
Authorized Representative Signature: ___________________________
Authorized Representative Printed Name: ________________________
Date: _____________________________
☐ The Bidder has its principal place of business outside of Florida
***THE BELOW SECTION APPLIES FOR A BIDDER WHOSE PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IS OUTSIDE OF FLORIDA (“Out-of-State”) ONLY***
****If the section below is not completed and the Bidder has selected that its company has a principal place of business outside of Florida, the Bidder will be deemed non-responsive.
If Bidder’s principal place of business is outside of the State of Florida, the following must be completed by an attorney licensed to practice law in the state in which the company’s principal place of business is located.
NOTICE: Section 287.084(2), Florida Statutes, provides that “a vendor whose principal place of business is outside this state must accompany any written bid, proposal, or reply documents with a written opinion of an attorney at law licensed to practice law in that foreign state, as to the preferences, if any or none, granted by the law of that state to its own business entities whose principal places of business are in that foreign state in the letting of any or all public contracts.”
LEGAL OPINION ABOUT STATE PREFERENCES
This section shall be completed by an Attorney at law licensed to practice in the state in which the company’s principal place of business is located if outside of Florida. The Bidder must provide the requisite details to the attorney completing this form.
I, [Insert Name], certify I am an attorney licensed to practice law in [Insert State], the state in which the above listed company (Bidder) has its principal place of business.
(Please Select One)
☐ The Bidder’s principal place of business is in the State of _________________ and it is my opinion that the laws of that state do not grant a preference to business entities whose principal places of business are in that state in the letting of any or all public contracts.
☐ The Bidder’s principal place of business is in the State of ______________ and it is my opinion that the laws of that state grant the following preference(s) to business entities whose principal places of business are in that state in the letting of any or all public contracts: [Please describe all applicable preference(s) only as it relates to preference(s) granted to business entities whose principal place of business is in the state listed herein]
[E.g., State of X offers 5% preference to business entities whose principal place of business is in state of X:]
Printed Bidder (Vendor) name: ______________________________
Authorized Bidder signature: ______________________
Authorized Representative Printed Name: ________________________
Date: ___________________
Printed Attorney name: _______________________________
Authorized signature of attorney: _____________________
Email address of attorney: ____________________________
Telephone number of attorney: ________________________
Date: _________________
Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas ITB No. 25-15111510-ITB Page 2 of 2 Attachment J – Principal Place of Business Letter Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas ITB No. 25-15111510-ITB Page 2 of 2 Attachment J – Principal Place of Business Letter
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