Attachment J - Principal Place of Business Letter.pdf
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- Motor Vehicles ITB
- Solicitation number
- ITB-15031
- Issued by
- Leon County, Florida
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Attachment J is a Principal Place of Business Letter required by the Florida Department of Management Services for ITB No. 25-25100000-ITB, a statewide motor vehicle procurement. Bidders must complete this form to declare whether their principal place of business is located within or outside the State of Florida. For bidders with a Florida principal place of business, completion requires only basic company information and an authorized representative signature. For out-of-state bidders, the form must be accompanied by a legal opinion from an attorney licensed to practice law in the state where the company's principal place of business is located. This legal opinion, mandated by Section 287.084(2), Florida Statutes, must address whether the bidder's home state grants any preferences to in-state business entities in public contracting. Failure to complete the out-of-state section will result in the bidder being deemed non-responsive.
The legal opinion section requires the attorney to certify their licensure in the bidder's home state and declare whether that state grants business preferences in public contracts. If preferences exist, the attorney must describe all applicable preference mechanisms with specificity. The completed form must be signed and dated by both the authorized bidder representative and the licensed attorney, with the attorney providing contact information including printed name, signature, email address, and telephone number. This document serves as a compliance mechanism to ensure Florida applies reciprocal preference policies to out-of-state bidders based on preferences their home states extend to Florida-based entities.
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ITB No. 25-25100000-ITB
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 J 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.
ITB No. 25-25100000-ITB
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: _________________
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